Leadership is to enable both responsiveness to change and achievement of key objectives.
A common misconception of Agile leadership is that it lacks focus on business goals. The reality is that agility offers the tools and skills for effective leadership at all levels of the organization. What are these building blocks? Why does everyone need leadership skills? And how do you combine these skills to lead effectively and create organizations that are both responsive and able to achieve key objectives? Join us to find out.
Topics:
- Challenges of leadership: complexity, uncertainty and consequences
- Alternatives to Command and Control
- Building blocks: from leading yourself, to leading your team, to leading an organization
- The Agile Executive: What does an agile executive do differently?
About the Speaker:
Peter B. Stevens is an executive, coach, author, Scrum trainer, and founder or co-founder of the Scrum Ambassadors, Agile Executives.org, and the World Agility Forum.
Peter is the creator of the Personal Agility System(TM). He recently served as Chief Agility Officer for Vivior AG, the Swiss digital health start-up. Together with Maria Matarelli, Peter founded the Personal Agility Institute and wrote Personal Agility: Unlocking Purpose, Alignment and Transformation, which was published by the Business Agility Institute. The Personal Agility System(TM) is a simple, dialogue-based approach to align action with purpose. It scales from the individual to the largest organization. Peter also wrote Ten Agile Contracts: Getting Beyond Fixed-Price, Fixed Scope and Extreme Manufacturing, Explained. He lives in Zurich.
