This is a foundational course in the Agile Leadership Specialization. By the end of this course, you will build an understanding of key agile leadership concepts. You will begin building a toolbox that will give you an ability to evaluate and create a baseline for yourself as an agile leader. You will access your team’s readiness for change. You will also analyze to what degree an organization is agile, and evaluate its ability to respond to change triggers.
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Helpful to have had 4 years of business workplace experience with some leadership responsibility.
Qué aprenderás
Describe how and why change management approaches emerged in the business world
Distill key characteristics of an agile leader
Compare traditional and agile teams
Compare and contrast traditional and agile organizations
Helpful to have had 4 years of business workplace experience with some leadership responsibility.
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Sistema Universitario de Colorado
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Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
Introduction to Change
Agile was born out of necessity driven by a changing business environment. But what triggered this change exactly? This week, you will define change and transformation, and examine change intensity levels and the reasons behind change acceleration.
Agile Leader
Agile leadership is a fairly new concept, and it is typically used in contrast to traditional leadership.
Agile Team
In this module, we will transition into the realm of the team. In order to transform your team, you need to understand the difference between a traditional and agile one. You will learn the definitions and key characteristics of both. You will also be introduced to the role and responsibility of a leader in leading an agile team. You will conclude the week by assessing your team’s level of agility. Similarly to your own assessment, you will be using your team’s baseline assessment to design an agile transformation plan later in the specialization.
Agile Organization
In the last module of this course, we will expand the concepts of traditional and agile to an organizational level. You will learn the definitions and key characteristics of a traditional and agile organization. At the end of the module, you will analyze an organization for its agility.
Reseñas
Principales reseñas sobre AGILE LEADERSHIP: INTRODUCTION TO CHANGE
Exceptional, superior level of quality. I am exited with the instructor, her passion and knowledge. The lesson so far is well structured and motivates the student to engage with the course.
The course is so relevant to the current global economic where competition is aggressive and the organizations need to have such agile leaders to compete successfully.
Excellent material, it cover and explained the traditional and agile organizations their pro's and con's.
very straight to the point, easy to understand and follow, gives the basic information and knowledge.
Acerca de Programa especializado: Agile Leadership
Constant fast change has become a reality of our time. Agile has become a popular leadership philosophy and a project management methodology for addressing this reality. While the theory is simple, it’s much more challenging to become Agile in practice.

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