NEW! Agile Leadership: Guiding Change in a Chaotic Workplace with Scott Dunn
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
The table below displays the number of professional development units (PDUs) awarded for each PMI® credential, as they align to the PMI Talent Triangle®. Power Skills and Business Acumen PDUs apply evenly across all credentials and Ways of Working PDUs apply only to specific credentials. PDUs will be added in full to all eligible credentials. *Please note that the asterisked row below applies to the PMI® Agile Certification Journey and includes Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM), Disciplined Agile® Senior Scrum Master (DASSM), Disciplined Agile® Coach (DAC), and Disciplined Agile® Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) certifications.
| Ways of Working | Power Skills | Business Acumen | Total | |
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| 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)
Scott Dunn
Scott Dunn is a leadership and organizational transformation trainer and coach. One of only 60 with the highest level trainer and coaching certifications from the Scrum Alliance, he has trained over 7,000 people over the last 15 years. He has led or supported over 20 company transformations, including case studies presented at the global and local Agile and PMI conferences.