NEW! Agile Leadership: Guiding Change in a Chaotic Workplace with Jesse Fewell
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
- Describe the unique challenges of our time, and the leadership required to navigate them
- Explore strategies to overcome the challenges of complex projects and transformations
- Practice new leadership skills that grow yourself and your teams
Description
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations expect leaders to deliver strategic outcomes while navigating the constant flux of change. This immersive program is designed to equip you with the skills and insights needed to motivate and engage teams, even in the face of burnout and distraction. You will learn when to be firm and when to be flexible, and how to adapt your leadership style to different situations.
Program highlights include:
- Agile Leadership Foundations — Understand what makes an agile leader different and why it matters, especially during critical business transformations.
- Beyond Change Management — Learn how conventional change management practices are not enough for complex transformations and projects.
- Practical Frameworks and Templates — Apply agile principles and leadership models to any business context, ensuring sustainable improvement and team effectiveness.
- Organizational Culture — Explore the impact of culture on project team performance and learn how to shape environments that unlock potential.
- Practical Application — Tailor the concepts to your workplace context, and then practice leadership techniques with classmates in real-time.
This program is ideal for professionals in any industry seeking to promote more sanity in their workplace so they can generate more results.
AGENDA
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The Work
- The Problem of Modern Work - Explore the history of management, and the unique challenges of our generation
- Harnessing Culture for Change – What is culture, and how it determines the way change happens
- Articulating & Aligning Change – Using your strategy template to get stakeholder agreement
- Untapped Transformation – What to do when best practices are not moving the needle
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The Leader
- Three Levels of Leadership Development – How to know whether you’re growing or stuck in place
- Integrated Leadership Agility - When to be assertive versus accommodative, and amplify your influence
- Agile Leadership in Conversations - Practice skilled conversations in small groups, to increase the impact of your mentoring and solutioning
- Agile Leadership in Feedback - Practice giving and receiving feedback in a way that boosts your credibility
- Agile Leadership in Job Tasks - Draft a personal leadership plan that upgrades your approach to your current job responsibilities
PDU Allocation Table
| Ways of Working | Power Skills | Business Acumen | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAPM® / PMI-CP™ / PMP® / PgMP® | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14.00 |
| PMI-ACP® / Agile* | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14.00 |
| PMI-SP® | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14.00 |
| PMI-RMP® | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14.00 |
| PfMP® | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14.00 |
| PMI-PBA® | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14.00 |
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Instructor(s)
Jesse Fewell
Jesse Fewell is an executive consultant who has taught and coached thousands of leaders and professionals in fourteen countries on five continents.
A management thought leader, he has founded three professional association communities, chaired or contributed to five agile certifications and six project management standards. He chairs the upcoming edition of the PMBOK Guide (2025), the premier global standard from the Project Management Institute.
His consulting firm, Fewell Innovation, has attracted clients from the Federal Reserve Bank to Duolingo to Washington DC public schools, and over 100 other global organizations.
His writings on change have reached over half a million readers worldwide in eleven languages, including the critically acclaimed book Untapped Agility: 7 Leadership Moves to Transform Your Transformation.
A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Jesse’s industry contributions have earned him an IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core Award.