Transformative Leadership-

Agility
How Being Agile pays off !

-Shalini Acharya
Embracing organizational change
• Welcoming change
We live in a VUCA World!

W Edwards Deming
“It is not enough that management commit themselves to quality and productivity, they must
know what it is they must do. Such a responsibility cannot be delegated.”
Moving to Agile
Who is an Agile Leader?
• Operates effectively amid uncertainty, complexity, and rapid change
• Is knowledgeable about Agile values, approaches, and practices
• Surfaces more creative solutions through increased self-awareness,
growth mindset, and engaging others
• Aligns and empowers teams toward delivering more customer value
• Personally integrates feedback and experiments, and adapts
• Takes a collaborative continuous-improvement approach to
organizational effectiveness
• Catalyses change in others and facilitates organizational change
Agile Leadership Skills
• Champion of Change
• Strategy and Vision
• Change methodology
• Build Value
• Systems Thinking
• Whole Brain Thinking
• Lead each individual
• Multiple perspectives
• Collaborative Teaming
• Leverage Strengths
• Active Listening
• Coach & Develop
• Empower Others
• Encourage creativity
• Understand perspective
• Recognise unique skills
Developing Self-Awareness
• Ask for Feedback
• Recognise Strengths and Weaknesses
• Better Self Reflection
• Monitor Self Talk
• Get ready to say “NO”
• Be Ready to Question the decisions
• Get out of the comfort zone
• Identify your triggers
• Get to the birds-eye view
Growth Mindset
 Emotional intelligence

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Let us Summarize now..
• Agile represents more of mindset, principles, values and
thinking...than methods, processes, vocabulary or tools!
• Agile adoption at team level requires a thorough understanding of
agile values and principles
• However, scaling agility at organisation level requires agile leadership
at multiple levels
• Agile leadership is all about enhanced agility - best achieved through
nurturing agile mindsets, self-organising teams and a culture of trust,
openness and continuous improvement
References
• https://vitalitychicago.com/
• https://campussupervisorsnetwork.wisc.edu/
• https://www.thebeone.com/
• https://blog.innerdrive.co.uk/
• https://eyewire.news/
• http://www.changeandstrategy.com/