Why is this course important?  

Highly successful organisations have leaders at every level who operate with radically different mindsets and behaviours. This course will provide a platform for you to evolve your leadership capabilities to build a more resilient, adaptable, empowering, creative and innovative culture.

Actionable and practical leadership mechanisms are a focus to ensure that you will be able to make an immediate positive impact.

This course brings together a diverse set of modern leadership research and concepts and wraps them in a cohesive learning experience.

Here are a few examples of leadership thinking included in our course:

• The Principles and Mechanisms of Intent-Based Leadership from David Marquet (author of Turn the Ship Around and Leadership is Language).
• Psychological Safety from Amy Edmondson (author of The Fearless Organization).
• Lean Enterprise by Jez Humble et al
• Lean Thinking from Toyota
• Cynefin from Dave Snowden
• Richard Hackman, Stephen Bungay, Dan Pink

In addition to the practical benefits, this course will provide you with an industry-recognised Agile leadership accreditation - CAL 1 - and the foundation for further development of your leadership skills with CAL 2.

Objectives:

This highly interactive and practical course covers a broad array of Agile leadership content including the following:

• Context for Agile Leadership
• Defining an “Agile Leader”
• Leader Mindset
• Psychological Safety
• Authority and Information
• Alignment and Autonomy
• Engaging and Motivating People
• Tuning Control based on Competence and Clarity
• Fix the Environment
• Culture
• Leadership Awareness and Behaviours
• Organisation and Team Structures
• High-Performance Teams
• Agile at Scale
• Leading Lasting Change

The course will provide a thorough grounding in principles and concepts, along with highly actionable techniques that can be put into immediate practice.

Schedule

The course runs to a 9:00 am - 17:00 pm (UK) schedule over 2 days. 

Please contact us if you would like to run this course for your team or organisation. We would be happy to organise a private course and optionally customise the course to your specific requirements. We also offer this training as part of a coach-supported leadership programme.

Preparation

We recommend you have a (re)read through the Agile Manifesto and the latest Scrum Guide, written by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland the co-creators of Scrum. The Scrum Alliance also has a nice overview of Scrum which might serve as a refresher.

From a Leadership perspective, although not compulsory, you might want to consider reading some of the following books prior to the sessions:

• Turn the Ship Around
• Leadership is Language
• The Fearless Organization
• Lean Enterprise by Jez Humble et al

Your Trainer

Although best known for my long association with Scrum, I love everything Lean, Agile and Kanban. I get a buzz out of catalysing new ideas, collaboration, creativity and innovation to engage the full potential of teams and leadership.

Since 2005, I have been assisting organisations wrestle with the challenges of retaining agility as the scale of the challenge moves beyond a single team. My experience spans many different sectors and involves a broad spectrum of organisational elements, including strategy, budgeting, portfolio management, leadership, team design and engineering at scale. I enjoy using my hard-won years of team and senior leadership experience to help others.

I am an Agile coach and consultant, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), a Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Trainer, a TAC (Trainer Approval Committee) member for the Scrum Alliance, and a cocreator of ELSE (Emergent Large-Scale Evolution) - an evolutionary approach to scaling agility.

Terms & Conditions

Full refunds are available 15 business or more days before the scheduled event date. Cancellations made 10 or more business days before the event will be credited toward future events, however, no refunds will be issued. Rescheduling course attendance within 10 full business days or less will be subject to a transfer fee of £100. No refunds or credits will be available for participants that fail to attend all days of the course. Substitutions will be accepted at any time prior to commencement of the course.

In the unlikely event that we need to cancel or postpone the course you will be offered your choice of a discount on a later course or a full refund.

If you would like to pay via invoice then please contact us on info@ripple-rock.com.