Becoming an Agile Leader: Mastering the Mindset, Skills, and Strategies to Succeed

Becoming an Agile Leader: Mastering the Mindset, Skills, and Strategies to Succeed

42mIntermediate2021-04-19

Authors

Kelley O'Connell

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
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