Agile People Fundamentals

Agile People Fundamentals training covers three perspectives:Individual perspective (YOU)

• Knowing yourself and why you do what you do
• Helping others find their perfect place in the organization taking their personality and situation into account

Team perspective (WE IN OUR TEAM)

• How to increase the pace from immature to mature high-performing teams, using  skills for communication and conflict resolution
• How to grow and develop teams to be independent and empowered to make their own decisions, for example about their contribution to the organization's goals or their salaries

Organizational perspective (ALL OF US)

• How to balance an agile culture with an agile structure by providing enough support for emerging strategies where all people are involved in setting the direction (via OKRs or other kinds of relative targets)
• How to work to change behaviors – accomplishing an agile mindset and culture through removing limiting structures (budgets linked to fixed performance targets and rewards)
• Create a Learning organization where it's ok to make mistakes and learn from them (requires a platform of Psychological Safety)

Time Frame

The program is made up of 3 online workshops - beginning September 23rd and ending on October 7th.

Date                  Time                  Session  

Sept 23, 2020   3pm- 5pm est   Fundamentals 1

Sept 30, 2020  1pm-5pm est     Fundamentals 2 &3 Oct 7, 2020      1pm-5pm est     Fundamentals 4 & 5

Program Content

Session F1: Introduction to Agile People and important principles/tools

The foundation of Agile People's' mindset is about the principles, values, methods, and tools that we need to start using to release competence and innovation – and what we stop doing. We discuss your challenges and certification assignment.

Session F2: Psychological safety as a foundation for a learning organization

The importance of an approach that is permeated by security and confidence to increase profitability and innovation – to increase creativity through a culture where it is ok to fail and try again. We play "The Psychological Safety Game" to facilitate dialogue about difficult topics

Session F3: Emerging strategies, structures, and goals

Emerging strategies instead of long-term planning, new ways of working with strategy, budgets, goals, performance processes, and rewards. Using value stream mapping to optimize flows in a system instead of working with resource optimization and sub-optimization of departments. Mindset Slider exercise. WoWs to be used: Beyond Budgeting, OKRs, Impact Mapping, VSM, etc.

Session F4: Building conditions for agile culture

Creating conditions for a fantastic culture where people can perform at their optimal level with a sense of being supported and secure. The gap between structures and culture/values. Structure – Culture Misfit Role Play. The importance of country culture for an Agile transformation.

Session F5: The learning Organization as Strategy and the future role of HR and managers

Boundary Spanning and the Buddy System to increase cross-border collaboration and increase the opportunity to create a fantastic organization together. Tips and examples for the change journey and how HR and managers need to change their role to support it.