Agile People Business Agility Foundations

This training can lead to Professional Certification in Business Agility Foundations

People at every level and in practically every role in today's organizations are required to focus on customer delight, and bring innovation and continuous improvement into their work. This is a hard challenge and one that requires either building new muscles or limbering up muscles we may not use often. This highly experiential set of learning outcomes equips participants with new knowledge, tools, and techniques to implement immediately. The ICAgile Certified Professional in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) is intended to jumpstart the organizational and individual transformation towards a more responsive, value-driven reality.

Learning Outcomes

From People Management to People DevelopmentRecognizing People Development as Fundamental to Enabling Business Agility

Explain the fundamental ingredients for a human-centric culture that enables continuous development and learning. Identify gaps in their own organization and contrast different approaches to shifting to a more development-oriented culture.

Developing Yourself as it Relates to Developing Others

Conduct a self-assessment as it relates to personal development needs. Identify tendencies that may block or foster development. Prepare a roadmap for self-development in these areas.

Leading to Elevate Organizational Capability

Compare and contrast elevating and delegating behaviors. Apply these concepts to their own context.

Developing IndividualsConsiderations for Individual Development

Apply several techniques to create an environment for individual development, explain why these techniques work from a neuroscience perspective, then identify ways they can apply these to themselves and their organization.

Co-creation of Growth and Development Plans

Demonstrate techniques that help surface an individual's strengths, passions, interests, etc., and explain how you would approach a scenario where an individual’s development path does not align with the organization’s needs.

Developing Leadership in Others

Apply techniques for developing leadership in others in a way that leaves space for them to adopt their own authentic style. Demonstrate advanced techniques for providing feedback and approaching difficult conversations.

Developing TeamsKey Factors that Promote Team Development

Show through examples and their own experience how self-organization and team development are inherently linked. Show the leader's role in encouraging self-organization and continuous learning.

Setting Teams Up for Success

Explain potential impediments to team success and describe ways to balance individual, team, and organizational factors to maximize development at all three levels. 

Honoring Diverse Experiences, Knowledge, and Backgrounds

Describe techniques that can help create a safe culture for continuous learning and high-performance. Explain the power of bringing diverse experiences to the table.

Agile People Business Agility Foundations

Session B1: (A+B – 3h) – The Need for Business Agility

In today's Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) environment, business agility is more and more critical for success. New values and principles and self-organizing teams with the right mix of diverse people, working close to the customers' experience, empowered to make decisions, is the new competitive edge.

Session B2: (A+B – 3h) – Emergent Strategy and Value Creation

Aligning teams around a vital purpose and focusing on generating a vision is essential to providing inspiration and creating high performance. It's imperative to empathize with customers to maximize customer value and make it visible to focus on value creation.

Session B3: (A+B – 3h) – Frameworks Tools and Techniques

Agile is about adapting to change. You adapt to the customers' changing needs and work according to priorities to deliver the customer's most significant value early. Using a Lean StartUp approach, you can test your hypothesis with a Minimum Viable Product. Using Scrum, Kanban, Value Stream Mapping in the whole company is different from using it for Software development. What are examples, and how can you design your processes using the agile ways of working?

Session B4: (A+B – 3h) – New Ways of Thinking and Behaving

The ability to recognize and understand complex adaptive system dynamics accelerates the path towards Business Agility. It is not only our organization's dynamics that we should understand and manage with "Polarity Management" and "Cynefin Decision Making Model"; but also our thinking & behaving patterns by the concept of the "Ladder of Inference."

Session B5: (A+B – 3h) – Business Agility as the New Normal

In today's fast-moving and complex environments, we need to be much more responsive and adaptable to navigate the complexity. To do that, we need to:

• Understand how to make sense of business challenges when things keep changing

• Be able to make decisions and act when we don't have all the information we feel we need

• Create the conditions to allow the right culture to grow for everyone to perform at their best. In this session, we will recap on the impact on business.

Due to our VUCA world, we will explore what is needed in the business to embrace agility, deepen understanding about the structure/culture misfit, and the reasons transformation can fail.

Target Audience

Anyone interested in the paradigm shifts necessary to enable organizational agility in today's innovative business climate will find the Business Agility Foundations course compelling. Although this is a generalist certification and an entry point to several of ICAgile’s tracks, it is not intended to be a direct substitution for the ICAgile Certified Professional credential. Those already holding the ICP are likely to find this course compelling, especially if they are on a journey towards business agility outside of a software development context.

Online Delivery

If you attend a course that is delivered online we are working with Zoom for interactive discussions and team exercises, Mural as the digital canvas, and Slack for communication between the sessions.

You get access to a Learning Management System for your participants (agilepeople.com/campus) that contain an overview and detailed information about videos, articles, documents, and case stories for all sessions including links to all of the tools used in the training.

There will be some work to be done after every session, so add about 5 hours more every week. Course literature and material will be sent to your location and distributed digitally. The certification assignment will be accomplished in the time between the sessions so that you will be ready on the day of the last session.

Course Leader

Your course leader and facilitator is Manfred van Veghel.

Manfred van Veghel, has 30 years of training and consultancy experience from large Dutch and international companies for Agile, HR, Leadership and Organization. He is the founder of the Agile Caribbean Meetup Group and has a global network of Agile People.

As a consultant he has worked with Agile since 2001 at ABN AMRO (DSDM) with several frameworks, Agile Project Management, DevOps, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Agile HR, Lean Leadership & Kaizen, from the Healthcare sector to ICT and governmental organizations in Europe, US and on different Caribbean islands.

He was involved as Agile Coach for the Agile HR transition of ING HR from 2015 – 2017, one of the biggest Agile HR transitions of its kind. Currently he involved in Agile Transitions in the Caribbean.

Events cancellation policy - special terms during Covid-19

If you should have to cancel your registration, notification in writing should be sent to info@agilepeople.com. Please make sure you state the name of the conference/event in the subject line of your email.

• A refund of 85% will be given for cancellations received 14 days before the start of the event
• A refund of 50% will be given for cancellations received 7 days before the start of the event
• A refund of 25% will be given for cancellations received 2 days before the start of the event

You are allowed to send a colleague in your place.

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