Ultimate Agile Leadership (TheScrumMaster.co.uk)

Ultimate Agile Leadership is an interactive, activity-based course that helps managers and leaders understand how to create the conditions in which agile teams can thrive.

Through a combination of discussion, practical exercises and team-based activities, participants explore how leadership, management practices, organisational culture and ways of measuring success influence agility.

The course includes an attempt at TheScrumMaster.co.uk’s Ultimate Agile Master I (UAM I) assessment. Participants who successfully pass the assessment earn the Ultimate Agile Master I certification.

Course Overview

During this two-day course*, participants develop a deeper understanding of the role leaders and managers play in enabling organisational agility. They explore how leadership approaches, organisational structures and management practices can either support or restrict the ability of teams to respond effectively to change.

Agile teams cannot create lasting organisational change on their own. Leaders must help align goals, remove systemic impediments and create an environment that supports experimentation, collaboration, learning and self-management. Participants examine the changes in thinking and behaviour required when moving from traditional management approaches towards more agile ways of working.

The course explores how leaders can form and support effective teams, clarify outcomes, foster accountability and help people develop their capability. Participants consider how to balance direction with autonomy and how to support self-managing teams without reverting to command-and-control management.

Our experienced trainers combine practical exercises, discussion and realistic organisational scenarios. Participants leave with techniques for assessing agility, supporting cultural and behavioural change, measuring meaningful outcomes and improving the environment in which teams work.

* When delivered in person, this course is generally run over two consecutive days. Live Virtual courses may be delivered across a greater number of shorter sessions.

Course Learning Objectives

• Understand how agility can improve organisational performance
• Recognise the conditions required for agile teams to succeed
• Explain the role leaders and managers play in enabling organisational agility
• Understand the shift from traditional management towards agile leadership
• Support self-managing teams without taking responsibility away from them
• Identify and remove organisational impediments affecting teams
• Recognise common challenges experienced during agile adoption and transformation
• Create greater alignment between organisational goals, team goals and ways of working
• Use clear goals and shared values to support effective teams
• Assess and help develop the agile maturity of teams and organisations
• Encourage experimentation, learning and evidence-informed decision-making
• Create an environment that supports collaboration, trust and accountability
• Measure the outcomes and organisational impact of agility
• Lead cultural and behavioural change within an organisation

Course Topics

• Agility and organisational performance
• The role of leadership in agile organisations
• Traditional management and agile leadership
• Creating the conditions for agility
• Supporting self-managing teams
• Leadership, autonomy and accountability
• Building trust and psychological safety
• Values, purpose and clear goals
• Team effectiveness and agile maturity
• Organisational culture and behaviour
• Identifying and removing systemic impediments
• Leading organisational change
• Supporting agile adoption and transformation
• Experimentation and organisational learning
• Evidence-informed leadership
• Measuring agility, outcomes and impact
• Aligning teams and organisational strategy

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for managers, leaders and others responsible for supporting teams or establishing agile ways of working within an organisation. It is particularly relevant for:

• Senior leaders sponsoring agile adoption or organisational change
• Managers responsible for supporting people working in agile teams
• Leaders responsible for one or more Scrum Teams
• Departmental and functional managers working with agile teams
• Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches supporting leadership development
• Product Owners with wider organisational leadership responsibilities
• Transformation leaders and change professionals
• Anyone responsible for creating an environment in which agility can thrive

This is not an introductory Scrum course. Participants will benefit from having an existing understanding of Scrum and some experience working with agile teams.

Ultimate Agile Master I Assessment and Certification

All participants receive an attempt at TheScrumMaster.co.uk’s Ultimate Agile Master I (UAM I) assessment. Participants who achieve the required passing score earn the Ultimate Agile Master I certification. The assessment and certification are included in the course fee.

Why Learn With TheScrumMaster.co.uk

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