Agile Flexible Manager

This executive training seminar will boost your "agile, flexible manager" skills and dramatically improve your ability to adapt quickly to changes and achieve business goals.

You will learn to...

• Be more proactive in adapting to change
• Execute on different priorities simultaneously and sequentially
• Use flexible planning techniques to deploy plans and adapt to off-plan variations
• Use accelerated decision making techniques to make faster, better decisions
• Use foresight tools to anticipate avoidable surprises
• Think ahead, read situations better, prioritise actions
• Develop coherent, business driven responses to changes
• Develop sound business cases to gain support for actions
• Build an adaptive organisation capable of responding quickly to change
• Use strategies for coping with demands & pressures of frequent change

2 Day Workshop Content

Introduction: The Challenge

• Adaptability - The challenge you face and how to survive
• Types of changes & impact on your area of responsibility
• What are & how to develop your agile, flexible manager skills?
• Diagnostics - assess your organisation unit's adaptability needs

Seeing the Bigger Picture

• Business simulation - developing a business perspective
• Using extended enterprise model and activity system mapping to link your company's business activities & business imperatives to your unit's activity-resource deployment
• Applying templates to understand your company's operational system & capabilities and implications for organising & managing of your organisation unit

Flexible Planning - Deploying Plans and Adapting to Changing Situations

• How to adapt to changing situations & prioritise tasks
• How to use flexible planning techniques to deploy plans and adapt to off-plan variations
• How to avoid the fire-fighting trap
• Skills practice

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Making Faster, Better Informed Decisions

• Using accelerating decision making techniques
• How to use a decision map to improve quality of decision making
• How to develop clear decision processes and rules to improve decision making
• Using strategies to cope with pressures & demands of decision making in uncertain & dynamic conditions
• Skills practice

Foresight - Anticipating Near Future Changes

• Mapping your organisational unit's environmental 'field' - identify key players, patterns of behaviour, sources of disruption & turbulence and driving forces for change
• How to use foresight tools, recognise & anticipate signals for change
• Gaining advanced warning of disruptions & change - leading indicators, informal sources of information
• How to overcome blindspots and other common pitfalls
• Skills practice

Thinking Ahead & Preparing for the Near Future

• Using strategies to help you think ahead & avoid getting stuck in the past
• Assessing environmental risks & ranking priorities for action
• How to use 'what if' scenarios to explore likely future events and responses needed
• Questioning your unit's existing success model - will it work in the future?
• Using business cases to gain support & resources for plans & actions
• Skills practice

Developing Coherent, Business Driven Responses

• Assessing your unit's current situation
• Identifying business critical issues & critical success factors
• Determining objectives & priorities for action
• Deploying resources & organising activities
• Skills practice

Building an Adaptive Organisational Capability

• Developing a "Sense and Respond" capability
• Introducing methodology for early identification of problems
• Diagnostics - current reality

Developing Your Agile, Flexible Manager Skills

• Using tools & processes to accelerate your learning from experience
• Using the personal development workbook

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