Overview
The success of Agile methodologies in the field of software development have made it possible to explore avenues of implementing these principles and concepts across the rest of the organization as well. The course covers the roles played by different elements such as organizational structure, leadership, jobs, roles and careers, human resources, etc. in the transformation of a culture that values agility. The course discusses methods using which participants could re-align their organizations for Agility and creating new ways to work. The course also sheds light on how leaders create an Agile organization.
This course meets the requirements to award participants with the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Talent (ICP-TAL) upon successful completing the course.
What You'll Learn
- Learn how to assess your organization’s competitive position
- Discuss strategies to develop a growth mindset
- Explore the concept of servant leadership and Agile mindset whereby organizations empower leadership throughout the workforce to achieve sustainable success
- Learn data-driven approaches to developing, retaining and recruiting the right people for your agile organization
- Explore the advantages of analyzing team dynamics through the use of personality assessments
- Learn how to improve communication, productivity and trust
- Review the trends that enhance employee recruitment and retention
- Explore HR from different perspectives in helping organizations develop Agile cultures
- Discover strategies to improve interviewing and onboarding process to improve new employee productivity and satisfaction with the organization
- Create a complete Agile Organization canvas
- Learn how to manage and remove constraints and how this process is the biggest determinant of operational success
Curriculum
- The oncoming 4th industrial revolution
- The impact of generational disruption on organizations
- The need for people-centric thinking to succeed in the future
- Agile values and manifesto
- Dynamic thinking
- Agile/lean mindset
- Fixed versus growth mindset
- Reviewing traditional organizations
- Aligning organizations to the flow of value
- T-shaped employees
- The theory of constraints
- Team of teams
- Servant leadership
- The meaning of an Agile mindset
- Creating cultural agility
- Developing an engaged workforce
- What really motivates high performance
- A re-look at the HR tool kit including –
- Performance reviews
- Compensation
- Learning
- Career planning
- Data-driven discussions of behaviors, motivation and skills
- Identification of potential conflicts among participants and strategies to manage them
- Sing data analysis to develop job descriptions, improve recruiting and on-boarding new employees
Who should attend
The Facilitating the Agile Culture Change course is recommended for anyone who desires to have a better understanding of how to effect cultural change within a team or an organization to be more agile. This would include –
- Human resource professionals
- Leaders and managers
- Scrum Masters
- Product owners
- Agile team members
Prerequisites
Participants would be provided with the TTI Trimetrix DNA Assessment prior to beginning the course. Also, having completed the Foundations of Agile course before taking on this course would be highly beneficial.
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Certification
Participants who complete the Facilitating the Agile Culture Change: Building an effective Agile organization (ICP – TAL) course receive the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Talent (ICP-TAL) designation. This certification is aimed at people who are in what organizations traditionally call the Human Resources (HR) domain. They are part of an organization aiming to adopt Agile thinking and practices, irrespective of their industry. Participants will come away with the knowledge necessary to tackle new ways of thinking and working equipped with people engagement practices that are more humanistic and values-based.
There is no official ICAgile examination associated with this certification.
