AgilityHealth Jump Start
Leadership Agility Program
This jump start program provides a holistic & structured approach to developing Leadership Agility skills across executives, Sr. Leaders and managers leveraging the 4 areas needed to accelerate building new skills and capabilities.
- LEARN: Complete the learning series designed for leaders
- MEASURE: Define and assess target competencies with a growth plan
- GROW: Enable self-learning and growth for leaders
- MENTOR: Build a strong mentorship program, strengthen communities of practice
Outcomes
This jump start aims to deliver the following outcomes:
- Learn why organizations are transforming and the top 5 areas of change
- Understand Enterprise Business Agility and the capabilities needed to enable the flow of value across your enterprise
- Understand and articulate what modern leadership looks like
- Complete a baseline assessment of Leadership Agility and build a targeted individual growth plan
- Rollup data across a cohort of leaders to understand common strengths and gaps
- Design a leadership learning roadmap with short modules offered every 2 weeks, monthly or quarterly
- Build a mentorship and accountability partner program to ‘make it stick’
- Re-assess Leadership Agility for the target cohort every 6 months and measure progress
Initial Education and Baseline Assessment
1.
Leadership Agility Overview & Self-Assessment
Learn about Leadership Agility, top 5 areas for change and the role of leaders for accelerating transformation outcomes. Complete the Leadership Agility self-assessment.
1 day or 4 hr session
2.
360 Feedback
Invite others to complete 360 assessment and give you constructive feedback.
2-3 weeks
3.
Growth Planning
Review results with individuals (coach + peer to peer) and build individual growth plans, select desired learning path
2 Hr Session
4.
Leadership Readout
Rollup results and share insights and patterns. Review learning roadmap and recommendations based on targeted gaps identified. Consensus to kickoff learning journey
1hr – 90 min
Leadership Agility Journey
1.
Learning Pathway
A learning journey with key leadership deep topics is designed, each leader selects the learning journey that fits their interests
2 hrs per module
2.
Coaching
An expert coach is available 1:1 or joins leadership sessions to coach the team on new ways of leading and thinking
3.
Shared Outcome Partner
Instead of the traditional ‘accountability partner’, we have 2 or 3 leaders identify an outcome they can share and accomplish together utilizing new skills
4.
Measure & Grow
The group returns every 6 months to ‘demo’ and showcase what they’ve done, re-assess, measure growth and plan a shared outcome for the next 6 months
Module 1 | Enabling Enterprise Business Agility:
- Overview of Enterprise Business Agility
- The 7 Pillars and capabilities needed to enable the flow of value across your enterprise
- Learn the top 5 areas of change and what’s impacted
- Understanding your current state and industry benchmark
- Big Picture: How value flows across the enterprise
Module 2 | Leadership Agility – Modern Leadership & Engaged Culture
- Exploring Healthy vs Unhealthy leadership
- What is Leadership Agility and how to accelerate value delivery
- Evolving the Leadership mindset and behaviors to support modern ways of working
- Providing strategic clarity and alignment, removing obstacles
- Embedding a culture of experimentation, autonomy & relentless improvement
Module 3 | Outcomes Based Planning & Product Discovery
- Demand Optimization vs Delivery Optimization
- Outcomes based planning and alignment to value at all levels
- Allocation of investment based on RGT or investment horizons
- Enterprise Visibility Rooms – planning and review cadence at scale
- Outcome check-in, tradeoff decisions, evaluating key results
Module 4 | Cross-Functional Team/Org Design for Agility
- Teaming Structures and Leadership Triangle Model
- Portfolio, product, delivery teams
- Org design and value stream patterns
- Shared service team design patterns
- Steps to ‘Untangle the Spaghetti’
- Roles impacted and change management
Module 5 | Agile Delivery & Tech Agility
- Agile Delivery Basics
- Team vs Team of Team planning
- Where and when should leaders engage?
- Top impediments of FLOW
- Understanding Tech Agility and DevOps
Module 6 | Measurement & Data Driven Transformations
- The 3 types of metrics that matter (Maturity, Performance, Outcomes)
- Closer look at Maturity
- Closer look at Performance (4Lenz Dashboard)
- Measuring and Growing at every level
- Role of Leaders in using data to remove obstacles
Optional. Module 7 | Lean/Agile Funding Models
- Challenges with Project based funding
- Shifting to modern stable team funding models
- Flexible outcome oriented funding
- Shorter funding cycles, collaborative decision making
- Capitalization rules
- Training, skill development and cultural shift
Sample Outputs and Screen Shots:
Agile Leader PDF Output
Individual Growth Plan
Leadership Agility Radar