The pace of change in the world is accelerating. Market fragmentation, technological change, global competition, economic downturns, and more are placing a demands on leaders to respond even more quickly to efficiently meet ever-changing challenges. In this environment of fast-paced change, the key capability organizations are seeking is agility.

This program works with your leaders to build an understanding of how agility can avoid problems and create new opportunities, create a practical agile transformation strategy, and start changing the leadership culture to help the organization start the journey towards greater organizational agility. The program starts with online self-assessments with resulting individual reports highlighting how individuals understand their current agile capabilities and attitudes in comparison to their leadership peer group. Then, through a two-day workshop, participating leaders will learn more about the aspects of organizational agility, how agility can create opportunities, and how to avoid common pitfalls while making the transition. Using practical individual and group activities, participants will develop their own group and business unit agile transformation strategies that can be put into action immediately following the workshop to start developing a more agile culture and start gaining the benefits of agility.

STEP 1 — SELF-ASSESSMENTS

Each participants will receive an invite to complete our Leadership Agility Self-Assessment Survey. This online assessment captures participant scores across a number of agility competence areas and compares them with the responses of the other participants to show how each individual compares to the group as a whole. 

STEP 2 — REPORTS

Approximately two weeks after the survey has closed, individuals will receive their own confidential Individual Leadership Agility Report indicating their self-assessment scores and how they compare to their peer group average and min/max range. Commentary and development recommendations for each competence area are included, as well as Procept’s proprietary Agile Readiness Index score. Procept will also provide a Group Summary Report on the aggregate group results, intended for senior management and/or HR coordinators.

STEP 3 — WORKSHOP PART 1: UNDERSTANDING AGILITY

Through an in-person, face-to-face one-day workshop (or four interactive two-hour online sessions), Procept facilitators will cover the following topics:

• Module 1 – What is Agility?
  Covers the history/evolution of agility; fundamental concepts of agility (continuous improvement, reducing waste, and sense & respond); how full agility has cultural, process, and systems implications; and how agile processes compare with other process models.
• Module 2 – Agile Thinking and Its Impact on Operations
  Covers how agile thinking impacts business operations such as finance, governance, documentation, quality management, and benefits realization.
• Module 3 – Agile Projects
  Covers how agility changes our approach to project delivery, project management, and project governance.
• Module 4 – Agile Transformations
  Covers strategies for transforming into an agile organization, case studies of organizations that have tried various strategies, common pitfalls to avoid, and statistics from those who have already made the change.
   

STEP 4 — WORKSHOP PART 2: APPLYING AGILITY

In part two of this workshop, Procept facilitators will help leaders participating in this program to plan on how to begin an agile transformation:

• Module 1 – Immediate Agile Opportunities
  Individual and facilitated group sessions will see participants identifying and prioritizing short-term opportunities where applying agile principles and practices will lead to direct and immediate business benefits.
• Module 2 – Vision for an Agile Enterprise
  Individual and facilitated group activities will have participants prepare a vision of what the organization can look like when it has become fully agile. This will include cultural, process, and systems impacts.
• Module 3 – Longer-Term Agile Initiatives
  Participants will identify changes needed to achieve the agile enterprise vision and identify and prioritize initiatives within mid-term and long-term classifications.
• Module 4 – Agile Transformation Strategy
  Participants will create an agile transformation strategy/roadmap that will place immediate and longer-term agile opportunities/initiatives on a high-level timeline.
   

STEP 5 — FINAL REPORT

The past part of this program consists of Procept consultants creating and delivering a final report containing the prioritized initiative lists, vision and strategy prepared during the workshop, as well as additional observations and recommendations.