Training

Agile Leadership

Along with culture, management has been one of the biggest challenges in developing business agility for many years.

Leading self-organised teams

"The best architectures, requirements, and designs come from self-organized teams," claims the Agile Manifesto. But what exactly do such teams look like?

Flight Levels Introductions

This half-day workshop is aimed at all organisations that want to get to know the Flight Levels in a compact form.

Agile Fundamentals

Do you want to make your company more responsive and innovative? And you are wondering how to go about it? In just 4 hours, "Agile Fundamentals" provides you with a solid overview of your design options.

Classically socialized leaders, according to the persistently recurring complaint of agile practitioners, do not support change enough and are also reluctant to change themselves. This is precisely where our "Agile Leadership" offer comes in.

In our experience, there is neither political calculation nor malicious intent behind the latent management blockades. Rather, in many places there is simply a lack of knowledge and practical practice, without which there can be no improvement.

We want to address both with our lean learning course "Agile Leadership". Through the combination of joint training days, individual coaching and collegial exchange, you will equip yourself for the most important tasks of the agile age. For this purpose, the training course combines sound know-how with practical application exercises and concrete implementation steps for your everyday work.

In addition to the workshops for the whole group, our experienced leadership coaches offer person-oriented sparring for the most effective transfer of what has been learned. In addition, we encourage self-organized exchange among the participants and provide proven methods such as case work, lean coffee or collegial feedback.

What you get from the "Agile Leadership" learning course

  • Sound know-how: Benefit from the insights of our leadership experts

  • Practical orientation: deepen your understanding through concrete case studies, peer consultation on selected problems and selected exercises

  • Open exchange: Discover a wide variety of experiences with agility and self-organization

  • Consistent alignment with your interests: in the form of virtual queries, joint retrospectives or individual sparring, in which you can work on your most important concerns in a protected setting

  • Ongoing transfer of the contents & methods: Translate what you learn into your own work environment and gain new experience.

  • The focus on in-house learning guarantees maximum concentration on the leadership environment at hand and helps to generate potentially directional insights. This is supported not least by the intensive exchange with the training sponsor.

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What does it mean that they are self-organizing? And what are the implications for leadership?

Building on the now 3rd edition of Sigi Kaltenecker's workbook, this workshop provides directional answers to these questions.

The workshop explains the basic principles of self-organization, introduces a catchy management model and presents good practices that have proven themselves in a wide variety of companies. In an interactive, methodically varied form, the workshop conveys why leadership in self-organized environments only works as a team sport of product managers, subject matter experts, coaches and line managers.

What you get out of this workshop:

  • Sound fundamentals: principles of self-organization and agile leadership

  • A simple model of self-control: values, competencies, tools

  • Opportunity for intensive exchange: what has proven successful in the everyday work of the workshop participants in terms of self-organisation?

  • An extended toolbox for agile leadership: e.g. team purpose statement, decision matrix, flight levels, troika consulting, collegial feedback

  • Clarifying open questions: what you always wanted to know about leading self-organized teams

  • A hot off the press edition of the workbook "Leading Self-Organized Teams"

How the workshop is organized:

  • 2-4 half days virtual

  • 100% virus free collaboration via Zoom and Miro

  • Short mail inquiry about the background and the interests of the participants

  • Documentation of all essential inputs and workshop results

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In just four hours, you will gain a comprehensive insight into the world of visual work management on a strategic, coordinative and operational level. On this basis, you will be able to make trend-setting decisions for your area of responsibility.

What you get out of this workshop:

  • Understanding the difference between agile teams and enterprise-wide business agility

  • Explore the model and the design elements of the flight levels

  • Get to know case studies from different companies

  • Apply what we have learned to our own situation: What current challenges could the Flight Levels help us with?

Who we want to address with this workshop

Everyone who wants to know what visualization, focus and feedback according to the Flight Levels Model are all about and how they can be used purposefully.

What it's about:

  • Introduction: What are flight levels? What are they good for? And how can we take off with them?

  • Clarify the starting situation: Strengths we can build on and problem areas where we want to improve.

  • Core Practices of Business Agility - Part 1: Visualization

  • Examples from different companies

  • An experiment - and its consequences for our business

  • Core Business Agility Practices - Part 2 & 3: Focus & Agile Interactions

  • Coming full circle: How flight levels could help us in our current situation

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In just 4 hours, "Agile Fundamentals" provides you with a solid overview of your design options.

What you get out of this workshop:

  • Explore the basic principles and benefits of the agile approach

  • Understanding business applications

  • Get an overview of the most important methods

  • Get to know case studies from other companies

  • Discuss critical aspects of agility

  • Clarify next steps

Who we want to address with this workshop

Everyone who is interested in keeping their company on track for success. We recommend a cross-hierarchical and cross-disciplinary mix of participants.

What it's about:

  • Introduction: What does agile mean here? What is agile software development? What are agile companies?

  • The agile manifesto and its consequences

  • Methods of the agile procedure

  • Close-up: Scrum, Kanban, Lean Startup, Design Thinking

  • Practical examples from different companies

  • Success factors of agilization

Arrange an appointment so that we can explore your specific concerns and design a customized approach