LEADING WITH AGILITY

Today's leaders must be able to recognize and respond to dynamic global challenges and opportunities while tapping into the intrinsic power of their employees to deliver industry leading solutions and services.

These demands require leaders who have a high degree of emotional intelligence, are situationally aware systems thinkers, and have the ability to provide clarity and vision to the people who they serve.

The ICAgile accredited Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA) learning experience is a 6 week program specifically designed to prepare leaders to respond to increasingly turbulent economic, technological, sociological and market forces as well as global paradigm shifts that require new leadership thinking.

ICAgile LEADING WITH AGILITY  a 6 week remote leadership intensive designed to greatly enhance your leadership skills while minimally impacting your work schedule.  We meet for 6, two hour sessions online. Between sessions, you will be provided with case-studies, reading material and assignments to aid in your immersion. 

The work you put in, in between sessions, is critical to your success in this course, as it will help you build the leadership capabilities needed to advance on your journey.

Timing for weekday sessions are from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm to minimize work disruptions.  In these sessions, we will discuss what you've learned from your independent work, engage in group activities to enhance and reinforce the learning, and prepare for the next session.  

Your progress is always a click away in our state-of-the-art Learning Management system where you will be provided access to videos, documents and your assignments to complete.  On average, there is anywhere from 1.5 to 3 hours of independent work per week, in addition to the 2 hours we spend together in session.  

All times listed are Eastern Time (EST)

Week 1:

• Why do organizations need agility? We will explore the role of the leader in today's changing world and discover the relationships between leadership and Business Agility

• Organizational Capabilities needed in today's exponential world; a deep dive into organizational structures, with case studies to help uncover unconventional companies and how they thrive

Week 2:

• Personal Agility; what are the skills and characteristics that are important in today's world. You'll learn and practice skills in a small group setting, discovering more about your personal leadership style.

• Organizational Agility; continuing from the prior week, an exploration into organizational design

Week 3:

• Enabling a Learning Organization; what does a Learning Organization look like? Why is this important? We'll explore these topics and create strategies to take back to your company
• Emotional Intelligence; there a lot of buzz lately on the importance of EQ, some go so far as to say it's more important than IQ. This course includes a complementary EQ assessment and we use that to help determine areas of improvement

Week 4:

• Leadership Development; we explore development models, focusing on brain based research that shows how adults learn best. Outcome is a better understanding of what makes you tick, and how you can set yourself up for success.

• Team Development; a leaders main role is to build high-performing teams. We discuss strategies that make for this to happen, and provide you with tools and a blueprint to apply in your context

Week 5:

• We explore and practice giving and receiving feedback, a crucial part of leadership.
• We also focus on the art of storytelling, from the context of a leader using storytelling to deliver powerful messaging

Week 6

• Change Management - what does it take to implement change?  How can you as a leader be more successful both as a change participant, and a change catalyst?  These are questions we cover in this module

• Tying it all together; you build your leadership action plan through an open-space type activity with your peers in this class

What You Get