Becoming an Agile Leader: Mastering the Mindset, Skills, and Strategies to Succeed
42mIntermediate2021-04-19
Authors

Kelley O'Connell
Agile Trainer, Project Manager, Process Innovator
Course details
Agile environments present some unique challenges and opportunities for leadership. In this course, instructor Kelley O’Connell covers leadership definitions, agile leadership objectives and techniques, and leadership stabilization. Kelley explains why leadership is necessary in agile environments, then goes over traditional leadership functions and how agile leadership is different. She defines essential new leadership skills and discusses how you can transform yourself into an agile leader and help your team and organization shift successfully to agile, as well. Kelley describes key agile leadership techniques, then concludes by sharing ways you can establish team values, apply organizational strategy, define priorities, and more.
Skills covered
Project LeadershipAgile Project ManagementProject ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Necessity of leadership in agile environments
- What you should know about agile leadership
Leadership Defined
- How traditional leadership functions
- How agile leadership differs from traditional
- Essential leadership skills for today
Agile Leadership Objectives
- Self-transformation to an agile leader
- Team transformation to agile
- Organizational transformation
Agile Leadership Techniques
- Decision-making frameworks
- Agile principles in leadership
- Set a team vision for motivation
Leadership Stabilization
- Establish team values
- Apply organizational strategy
- Define priorities to direct work
- Maintain team focus
Conclusion
- Leadership journey
- Now go lead