447 Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) courses

Leadership for Transcultural Innovation Innovation, in response to mankind's 21st century needs, is powered by individuals, teams and organizations dispersed across cultural frontiers. The potential power of harnessing the best skills globally is immense, but this power can only become a reality if cultural differences are perceived as a source of energy and obstacles to cooperation are overcome. So, as leaders on this cross-cultural terrain, how should we adapt to ensure the best leverage of our collective global talents? What pragmatic enablers are within easy reach to assist on the journey to global collective technological intelligence? Identify your personal leadership style Clarify how cultural expectations for leadership styles differ globally and how you fit in Take a step back to understand the megatrend for leaders skilled in fostering collective technological intelligence Come away with three practical enablers for transcultural innovation that you can use today

Exploring the Underbelly of Exceptional Leadership: The Softer Skills Required to Effectively Lead Through Change Rapid change is impacting nearly every industry vertical, re-shaping, re-forming, and ultimately disrupting 'business as usual'. With this comes workforce strain, stress, and frustration. Today more than ever industry needs people who fully understand, embrace, and exemplify the softer skills of leadership. With the energy that could light up an entire city grid, Cassandra Worthy captivates audiences with her stories and unique perspective on what it really means to effectively lead THROUGH change. New perspective on the soft skills required to effectively lead through change (C.H.A.N.G.E Traits®) A heightened self-awareness of their current leadership effectiveness and the guidance to take the right next step to improve Invigoration to more effectively lead through ANY change challenges they face

Know Your Leadership Compass Business leaders, managers, and directors may be brilliant leaders in one situation and may not have the same results in another. Management gurus agree: Anyone can lead, but not everyone can be a successful leader. The previously embraced command-and-control techniques are increasingly ineffective. Today's business environment demands leaders to be alert, agile, enterprising, and skilled in the art of diplomacy. As a leader, it's imperative to articulate who you are, what you stand for, and why you're excited to lead your team. Are these areas you feel you need to develop? If so, join us for this session on developing your 'Leadership Compass' - a roadmap to leading with passion and purpose. It is a highly interactive, reflective process that sets a path to transformational leadership. You will receive navigational direction to support others as you assert your leadership maturity and learn how your thinking and behavior impacts the way you lead others. Identify your leadership foundation Understand value-based leadership and align your actions accordingly Develop, communicate, and leading with a compelling vision Learn how to lead others and build collaboration, teamwork, and trust Regulate the organizational temperature so you and others are motivated to do their best

Making Scope Management More Agile: On-Demand This course is designed and developed by PMP® certified consultants and instructors, with experience coaching and instructing in both predictive, i.e. waterfall, and adaptive, i.e. agile, environments. Its aim is to focus on scope management using either a predictive or an adaptive approach. The Project Management Institute's (PMI®'s) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) is the primary reference, with additional references from PMI®'s Agile Practice Guide. What You Will Learn You Will Learn How to: Apply scope management and quality management processes appropriately Differentiate between product scope and project scope Recognize what is required for a predictive approach to scope management vs. an adaptive approach Articulate on the continuum of project life cycle methods Determine factors that ensure scope management success Progressively elaborate scope through project initiation Progressively elaborate scope through project planning Monitor and control a project, via reporting predictively and adaptively Validating and verifying scope predictively and adaptively Change control to scope, using a predictive and an adaptive approach Getting Started Foundation Concepts Progressively Elaborating Scope Monitoring, Closing, and Changing Scope Closing Project or Iteration Course Summary and Next Steps

Corporate Leadership and People Management are about delivering results through others. True business owners know how to leverage the best talent within their teams, and know how to transform the performance of their organization through people. Setting up the right vision, engagement people onto a strategy, setting goals and providing feedback: the set of skills that are required for a People Manager is enormous. At the end of the day, the ultimate skill of a leader is to adapt, and situation leadership is a proven model at the heart of leadership, which you are going to discover in this course. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Measure your level of credibility as a manager Put in place an action plan on how to increase the level of Trust with your key stakeholders Lead a Vision, Mission and Strategy workshop with your teams Ellicite your team's Values Facilitate effective team meetings Define clear goals for your teams Define clear goals for your direct reports Know exactly what process and steps to follow when reviewing team goals Know exactly what process and steps to follow when reviewing individual goals Learn how to engage your people and motivate them Discover the world class technique on how to adapt your leadership style This course is most suitable for: Recently promoted managers who want to accelerate their development path Managers with 2-3 years of experience who want to increase their performance Future managers who want to maximize their chances for being successful At the end of my course, students will be able to... Measure their level of credibility as a manager Put in place an action plan on how to increase the level of Trust with their key stakeholders Know precisely how to adjust their managerial style based on the situation and the individual Lead a Vision, Mission and Strategy workshop with their teams Elicit their team's Values Facilitate effective team meetings Define clear goals for their teams Define clear goals for their direct reports Know exactly what process and steps to follow when reviewing team goals Know exactly what process and steps to follow when reviewing individual goals Discover the world-class technique on how to adapt your leadership syle Learn how to engage your people and motivate them Who should take this course? Who should not? Managers with 2-3 years of experience who want to raise their standards Recently promoted managers who want to accelerate their development path Future managers who want to maximize their chances for being successful Corporate Leadership and People Management Prepare your environment PROMO FREE 00:07:00 Welcome 00:01:00 Step 1 prepare your environment 00:01:00 Creating your team Vision, Mission and Strategy 00:08:00 Eliciting your team Values 00:07:00 Defining your team Goals 00:06:00 Manage your team Step 2 Manage your team 00:01:00 Expanding Credibility 00:03:00 The Trust formula 00:05:00 The Situational Leadership model 00:15:00 Engaging your team with Gallup 00:06:00 Review your results Step 3 Review your results 00:01:00 Lead regular team meetings 00:06:00 Lead One on One meetings 00:04:00 Facilitate your quarterly team meetings 00:03:00 Closing 00:02:00 Additional Resource Resource : Corporate Leadership and People Management 00:00:00

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the DevOps Leader course are professionals including: Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program, Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches, Business Managers, Business Stakeholders, Change Agents, Consultants, DevOps Consultants, DevOps Engineers, IT Directors, IT Managers, IT Team, Leaders, Lean Coaches, Practitioners, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, System Integrators, Tool Providers Overview The learning objectives for DOL include a practical understanding of: - DevOps and time to market - The business and IT perspectives - Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT - Planning and organizing - Understanding performance and culture - Measurement differences - Designing a DevOps organization - Focusing on what matters - Ideas for organizing workflows - Sharing information - Defining meaningful metrics - Value stream mapping - The Spotify Squad model - Managing culture change - Popular tools and key practices - Putting it all together The DevOps Leader course is a unique and practical experience for participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach and make an impact within their organization by implementing DevOps. Leading people through a cultural transformation requires new skills, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders up, down and across the IT organization must align and collaborate to break down silos and evolve the organization. The course highlights the human dynamics of cultural change and equips participants with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum through the use of real-life scenarios and case studies. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as understanding Value Stream Mapping. Prerequisites DevOps Foundation 1 - DevOps and Time What Is DevOps? Why Do DevOps Companies Doing DevOps The Magic Equation 2 - Key Differences Between DevOps IT and Traditional IT What Sets DevOps IT apart from Traditional IT How DevOps IT is Organized Differently How to Perform to a Different Standard How to Use Different Measurements 3 - Becoming a DevOps organization Transformational Leadership Redesigning An Organization for DevOps Design Principles Focus Work Information Metrics 4 - Value Stream Mapping What is Value Stream Mapping? Why Do We Need to Use this Framework? Types of Maps How to Create a Value Stream Map? Types of Data to Collect How to Handle Exceptions 5 - Value Stream Mapping Exercise 6 - Squad Organizational Model Conway's Law The Problem with Silos Spotify?s Squad Organization Model (Structure, Roles) Squads Tribes Chapters Guilds How to Reorganize in Order to Move to this Model 7 - Managing Culture Change What is Culture and How Does it Impact Performance? Types of IT Culture Cultural Traits of a DevOps Organization How to Manage Change 8 - Culture and its Impact on Performance Types of IT Culture What is a DevOps Culture How To Manage Change The Three Phases Of Change Types of Changes That Need to be Implemented 9 - Popular DevOps Tools and Practices DevOps Tools Periodic Table Top DevOps Tool Categories Common and Popular Practices 10 - Building a Business Case 11 - Bringing it all Together 12 - Additional Sources of Information 13 - Exam Preparations Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List Sample Exam Review Additional course details: Nexus Humans DevOps Leader (DevOps Institute) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the DevOps Leader (DevOps Institute) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Leading Cross-Cultural Virtual Teams (On-Demand) High-performing teams are a must in this world of intense competition and higher expectations. Global virtual teaming has become a necessity as organizations become increasingly distributed and suppliers and clients actively engage in joint projects. Teams work across geographical and organizational boundaries to deliver solutions and services to global users where distance and differences, both geographic and cultural, amplify the effect of issues and factors that are relatively straightforward when managing a team of people in the same location. This course delivers practical concepts and techniques that participants will start using immediately on their global projects. What you will Learn At the end of this program, you will be able to: Define relationships among foundational concepts (leadership and three dimensions of diversity) and explain their potential impacts on project performance Describe key components of successful project leadership and build selected Transformational Leadership skills Prepare to convert project challenges stemming from personal or cultural diversity into potential competitive advantage Implement selected best practices to meet key challenges facing virtual project teams Foster and grow an environment that supports continued success for CCVTs Getting Started Foundation Concepts Basic definitions Critical success factors for leading cross-cultural virtual teams (CCVTs) A roadmap to success for leading CCVTs Leadership Excellence in Any Project Environment Leading effectively in a global environment Transformational leadership The four components of Transformational Leadership Leveraging Personal Diversity Overview of personal diversity Mind styles The theory of multiple intelligences Connecting Transformational Leadership and personal diversity Embracing Cultural Diversity Introduction to cultural intelligence The impact of culture Cultural Dimensions Theory The Culture Map Managing Virtual Diversity Overview of virtual diversity Virtual time management Virtual processes and technology Virtual leadership Creating an Environment for Success Supporting a cross-cultural virtual-team (CCVT-) friendly environment Building a foundation of trust Developing a team charter Recap and review Summary and Next Steps Personal action plan

SAFe® Agile Software Engineering: In-House Training The introduction of Lean-Agile and DevOps principles and practices into software engineering has sparked new skills and approaches that help organizations deliver higher-quality, software-centric solutions faster and more predictably. This workshop-oriented course explores foundational principles and practices and how continuous flow of value delivery and built-in quality are enabled by XP technical practices, Behavioral-Driven Development (BDD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD). Attendees will learn proven practices to detail, model, design, implement, verify, and validate stories in the SAFe® Continuous Delivery Pipeline, as well as the practices that build quality into code and designs. Attendees will also explore how software engineering fits into the larger solution context and understand their role in collaborating on intentional architecture and DevOps. What you will Learn To perform the role of a SAFe® Agile Software Engineer, you should be able to: Define Agile Software Engineering and the underlying values, principles, and practices Apply the Test-First principle to create alignment between tests and requirements Create shared understanding with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Communicate with Agile modeling Design from context for testability Build applications with code and design quality Utilize the test infrastructure for automated testing Collaborate on intentional architecture and emergent design Apply Lean-Agile principles to optimize the flow of value Create an Agile Software Engineering plan Introduction to Agile Software Engineering Connecting Principles and Practices to Built-in Quality Accelerating Flow Applying Intentional Architecture Thinking Test-First Discovering Story Details Creating a Shared Understanding with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Communicating with Models Building Systems with Code Quality Building Systems with Design Quality Implementing with Quality

SAFe® Agile Software Engineering The introduction of Lean-Agile and DevOps principles and practices into software engineering has sparked new skills and approaches that help organizations deliver higher-quality, software-centric solutions faster and more predictably. This workshop-oriented course explores foundational principles and practices and how continuous flow of value delivery and built-in quality are enabled by XP technical practices, Behavioral-Driven Development (BDD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD). Attendees will learn proven practices to detail, model, design, implement, verify, and validate stories in the SAFe® Continuous Delivery Pipeline, as well as the practices that build quality into code and designs. Attendees will also explore how software engineering fits into the larger solution context and understand their role in collaborating on intentional architecture and DevOps. What you will Learn To perform the role of a SAFe® Agile Software Engineer, you should be able to: Define Agile Software Engineering and the underlying values, principles, and practices Apply the Test-First principle to create alignment between tests and requirements Create shared understanding with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Communicate with Agile modeling Design from context for testability Build applications with code and design quality Utilize the test infrastructure for automated testing Collaborate on intentional architecture and emergent design Apply Lean-Agile principles to optimize the flow of value Create an Agile Software Engineering plan Introduction to Agile Software Engineering Connecting Principles and Practices to Built-in Quality Accelerating Flow Applying Intentional Architecture Thinking Test-First Discovering Story Details Creating a Shared Understanding with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Communicating with Models Building Systems with Code Quality Building Systems with Design Quality Implementing with Quality

Tired of the Burnt Out Blues - Double Click on Self Care with Agility In this strange new world, companies are under pressure to adapt quickly. Being agile has never been so important. But how about the individual? We are filled every day with double doses of Stress, with a capital S! We hear it on the news, in our minds, from our friends; then we feel it in our shoulders, back, and whole body. If that is not enough, we have lost our routines, sense of freedom and normalcy. This is all before Noon! HELP! Together, let's halt the chaos, embrace new perspectives and 'create from' by double clicking on Self Care. We will embrace learning experiences and embody simple practices that take us from barely surviving to thriving. Together, let's release what is not serving you, step into your true self and turn up a new way to double click on YOU. You must put on your oxygen mask first in order to help and serve others. Learn to focus on self-care using the Integral Theory Walk away with practical self-care techniques to use in an agile world.