The Agile Manager and the Agile Organization

	06 - 07 June 2023	Apply Now
	9:00 am - 4:30 pm (including breaks) 12 hours: (2 days of 6 hours each)
	UAEU -CBE Abu Dhabi Off-Campus Site \| Google Map
	AED 1,680 (incl. VAT)
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OVERVIEW

When market environments become increasingly turbulent, sustainable competitive advantage and performance are prioritized. Research demonstrates that only agile organizations and mangers survive and thrive in such circumstances. Agile organizations continuously adapt and innovate and develop timely, effective and sustained responses to environmental change. Agile managers think agile, embrace change and are resilient.

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND MAIN OBJECTIVE

This course provides a comprehensive view on organizational agility. It covers all major areas of organizational agility, including understanding the foundations of an agile organization, developing agile personalities and mindsets, developing agile strategies and preparing execution plans. From this course, delegates will learn to assess their personal organizational agility potential, optimize their organizational teams and processes, and act resilient as they face environmental changes.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After conclusion of the course, delegates will understand agile organizations, their foundations, practices and processes and examine themselves as agile managers. They will develop the skills fundamental to the agile managerial personality, develop and understand strategies to transform the organization to an agile organization, and implement agile strategies at their organizations.

CONTENT

The course content is dealt within four modules:

Module 1: The Agile Organization:

The concept of organizational agility and its pillars and frameworks, processes, and practices, and putting, concepts into action.

Module 2: The Agile Manager and Agile Mindset (Think Agile): Understanding yourself as an agile manager, assessing your fear of failure, understanding rigid and agile behavioral tendencies and putting concepts into action, as well as developing your own agility.

Module 3: Strategizing for Organizational Agility (Be Agile): Developing an agility strategy and putting concepts into action.

Module 4: Implementing Organizational Agility (Do Agile): The META model of organizational agility implementation; CAMS - Composite Agile Method; Managing strategy execution; and putting concepts into action.

FACULTY MEMBER

Dr Saba Khalid is an Assistant Professor of Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship at the United Arab Emirates University. She has experience of working with account management at Nestle S.A. prior to joining academia. In academics, her broad research interest includes entrepreneurship capabilities, International Business Negotiations, firm capabilities and knowledge transfer and their relationship with firm performance. She has published in several international journals, including Journal of World Business, Management International Review, International Business Review, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing and Asian Journal of Political Science, among others.

TARGET GROUP

This course is aimed at executives who:

Work at agile organizations or want to understand agile practices.
Want to develop their agile capabilities.
Want to apply core values and principles of agile methods in their organizations.
Some of the management positions that usually attend agility and resilience training course are: Functional level managers such as product managers, process managers, human resource managers, finance managers, etc.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

It is assumed participants will be able to follow and participate in discussions in English, as well as write assignments on strategic agility.

TEACHING METHODS

Face-to-face learning.
Class discussion, case studies, articles, and relevant videos.

CERTIFICATE

Obtain a Certificate of Successful Completion by demonstrating knowledge, understanding and skills of the learning outcomes in practical assessments at the end of the course.