Agile Leadership And Resilient Teams

Building teams and organizations that thrive during change and stay resilient under stress

What you'll learn
The ultimate guide to building high performance teams as an agile leader
Define agile leadership and assess your team's resilience
Express how heat within teams can lead to breakthrough and how to foster the right kind of heat as an agile leader
Develop strong, flexible, and fair business relationships
Use your team meetings to create an agile team culture
Respond to change and uncertainty with resilient leadership
Requirements
While it's not a requirement, it's helpful if you are a team leader or manager and have some leadership experience.
Description
Team members in today's growth organizations need more than technical or operational management from their leader.  Today's top performers want an agile team culture where they can thrive during times of high stress and rapid change, and a leader they can trust and respect even when times are hard. The best teams use conflict for innovation and creative solutions and can leverage diverse points of view and act together as a collaborative team. Your instructor, Michael Papanek, has advised leaders at top global companies like Apple, Google, VMWare, Cisco, Kaiser, Clorox and Verizon, and has built the course on their best practices for Agile Leadership.In this course you will master the tools used by Agile Leaders for making decisions, resolving conflict and building team relationships, so you can create a team that overcomes any change or challenge that comes your way. This course will make you a master of the interpersonal skills you need now to inspire your team to achieve high performance, and break through any internal or external barriers to realizing your full potential - as an individual and as a group.  As an Agile leader you will discover the tools and strategies you need to address the root causes of performance issues so they are no longer pulling your team down.  In this course you'll learn:What Agile Leadership is and how to assess your team's agility and resilienceHow the right kind of "heat" on your team will lead to breakthroughHow to build strong, flexible, and fair business relationshipsHow to change your team culture by changing team meetingsHow to be a resilient leader in times of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguityI've included lots of exercises, free access to my online team assessment, downloadable tools and links to additional resources so you can put your new skills into practice and execute your personal action plan for becoming an Agile Leader.If you're ready to take charge and become an Agile Leader, then enroll today!CPE (Continuing Professional Education)Learning ObjectivesDefine agile leadership and explain the key benefits and attributes of an agile team.Assess your own team's resilience.Identify, discuss and change team dynamics to create more resilience on your own teams.Explain the heat curve framework and why it is important.Explain how undiscussable issues keep a team from performing well and list examples of undiscussable issues. Describe how to define and improve the strength of a business relationship.List strategies for improving the strength of a business relationship.Explain how to use a simple tool (issues, positions, interests) to work through a conflict and demonstrate more flexibility.List the components of fairness and trust (the trust formula) and describe ways to increase levels of trust.Describe a process for making decisions that will increase the perception of fairness.Describe different kinds of meetings and identify an optimally effective approach to meetings.List some best practices for improving meetings and thereby improving culture.Define the VUCA environment in which agile leaders work.List some key strategies that agile leaders use to respond in difficult (VUCA) times.For additional information, including refunds and complaints, please see Udemy Terms of Use, which is linked from the footer of this page.For more information regarding administrative policies, please contact our support using the Help and Support link at the bottom of this page.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What is Agile Leadership?

Lecture 3 Agility and resilient relationships

Lecture 4 Exercise: Assessing your team's resilience

Section 2: Riding the Heat Curve

Lecture 5 The Heat Curve

Lecture 6 Types of Heat Curves

Lecture 7 Exercise: Where is my team on the Heat Curve?

Section 3: Building strong relationships

Lecture 8 Strong business relationships

Lecture 9 Know your people

Lecture 10 Exercise: Assess the strength of your key business relationships

Section 4: Building flexible relationships

Lecture 11 Flexible business relationships

Lecture 12 Focus on interests, not positions

Lecture 13 Exercise: Assess the flexibility of your key business relationships

Section 5: Building fair business relationships

Lecture 14 Fair business relationships

Lecture 15 Building trust

Lecture 16 Exercise: Assess the fairness of your key business relationships

Section 6: Agile team meetings: Going up the Heat Curve

Lecture 17 Meetings make your team culture

Lecture 18 Changing culture by changing meetings

Lecture 19 Exercise: Your next team meeting

Section 7: Resilient leadership

Lecture 20 We live in "VUCA" times and need resilient leadership

Lecture 21 Understanding VUCA

Lecture 22 Responding to VUCA with resilient leadership

Lecture 23 Exercise: Delivering resilient leadership in a VUCA world

Section 8: Conclusion

Lecture 24 Agile leadership: Key takeaways

Lecture 25 Additional resources

Leaders, managers and team members who want their teams to be more agile and resilient, even under stress and rapid change