Agile Leadership — Leading Amazing Teams for Breakthrough Results

Leaders today face shifting challenges when helping teams succeed in our complex world. With increasing speed, change, and unknowns, leaders can’t rely on ‘knowing everything’ — there is too much happening. While many leaders realize this, acting on it to create an environment where teams can thrive and deliver is not simple. Leaders need to bring new and deeper levels of skill and engagement to meet these challenges.

High-performance is more than a catchphrase, it is a state where teams are self-organizing to solve problems and deliver value to customers. Self-organizing and self-managing are not the same. The process of helping teams reach and maintain high-performance state varies from team to team and organization to organization, however, the foundational skills leaders need do not change.

Leadership – leading to create real empowered high-performance teams. While we want teams to solve many of their own challenges, leaders play a critical part in this process by helping teams continue to improve and develop. Great leaders engage with people and teams to address issues like conflict head-on, helping teams find ways to gain from conflict and improve. They don’t have the luxury of telling teams “you are empowered” and walking away – they must do ‘just enough’ to help teams thrive. This requires leaders to have the awareness and protocols in place to know when they might be limiting the team. Agile Leadership — Leading Amazing Teams brings critical tools, techniques, skills, and ideas from professional coaching, brain-based training, neuroscience, leadership, change management, and much more to help leaders succeed.

What to Expect

We take training and learning seriously and take your decision to spend time advancing your skills and improving yourself seriously. As such, we use the latest training approaches and techniques, and bring energy and fun, to ensure you have the best possible experience and learn as much as possible.

• Brain-based training to dramatically increase learning and retention (both instructors are Certified Training From the Back of the Room Trainers)
• Expect to be challenged and look at ways you need to change to help others improve
• Opportunities throughout the course to focus on your real-world situations
• Advanced and cutting-edge skills and techniques to deal with the specific challenges you are facing
• In-depth engagement with your instructors and fellow attendees. If you are looking for a dry lecture, this class is NOT for you!
• Interactive, fun, and experiential learning — increase safety and retention – laughing helps learning
• Two Instructors — This course is co-taught as a partnership by two instructors (Tricia Broderick and Jake Calabrese), providing additional depth and insight, varied experiences and learning opportunities, and real-time lessons around co-leadership

Learning Objectives

• Understand the connection between leadership and coaching to achieve high performance
• Explain the value of agile coaching and leading with coaching in today’s world
• Explore and practice using a coaching framework to find your leadership stance
• Learn to assess the level of coaching a team requires and when to ask for help
• Demonstrate how to kick off a new team and provide them with a foundation for success
• Apply multiple coaching tools and techniques, in various situations, to help individuals and teams create and maintain a high performing team
• Dispel common Agile Leadership Myths to address real team challenges
• Learn about and practice shifting your mindset to approach leadership challenges from new perspectives that empower teams
• Explore your ability and capacity as a coach and leader and determine what areas you need to improve
• Explore challenges with organizational agility and multiple teams — and opportunities to address the challenges
• Experience new ideas to help teams embrace healthy conflict as normal
• Demonstrate Training from the Back of the Room, Brain-based training techniques that you can use as a leader, manager, or coach to help your teams continuously improve
• Apply practices & skills from the field of Professional Coaching and learn how they are critical to your success as a leader
• Establish and refine a leadership backlog to apply when you return to work

Who Should Attend

• Anyone who is leading teams or groups in an organization
• Leaders involved with helping teams succeed, including leadership teams, delivery teams, Scrum teams, agile teams, etc.
• Directors, VPs, managers, development managers, agile coaches, executives, aspiring leaders (with team experience)

Details

Length: 3-days + pre-reading assignments that we will use during class

Location: Virtual, via Zoom with Miro for interactive exercises

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Prerequisites

• Anyone who is leading teams or groups in an organization
• Leaders involved with helping teams succeed, including leadership teams, delivery teams, Scrum teams, agile teams, etc.
• Directors, VPs, managers, development managers, agile coaches, executives, aspiring leaders (with team experience)

Course Credit & Certifications

• 27 PMI PDUs
• 27 Scrum Alliance SEUs
• ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
• Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership – Teams (CAL-T)

Course Facilitators

Leading Amazing teams is co-trained by Jake Calabrese, Helping Improve and Tricia Broderick, Ignite Insight + Innovation.

Jake Calabrese

Jake is a coach, trainer, and coach-consultant working to help organizations meet the promise of agile by going beyond agile practices to address culture challenges and help teams and leaders reach and maintain high performance. He has unique expertise as an Organization & Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC), a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), and Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and as a trainer and coach for Agile Companies (helping non-software organizations use agile). Jake created the AgileSafari cartoon series to introduce humor into the more challenging issues we have to tackle. Jake uses ideas from various areas of thinking such as: Lean, professional coaching, neuroscience, psychology, facilitation, brain-based training, improvisation, agile, kanban, and scrum. Jake regularly speaks at local and national conferences including Mile High Agile, Scrum Gathering, and Agile Alliance Agile20xx conferences.

Tricia Broderick

Tricia Broderick is a leadership and organizational advisor. Her transformational leadership at all levels of an organization, ignites the growth of leaders and high performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia has more than twenty years of experience in the software development industry. She is a highly-rated trainer, coach, facilitator and motivational keynote speaker. Beyond her extensive knowledge and skills, her biggest offering is inspiring people to believe anything is possible. Her aim is to create connections and environments that challenge and support people in an authentic, vulnerable, engaging and fun way. In 2020, she founded Ignite Insight & Innovation.