Agile thinking and acting: Successful teamwork in agile structures

Learning Objectives

The aim of the training is to enable teams and managers to work in an agile way within existing organizational structures. Participants develop a common understanding of agility and know how they can apply this mindset in their everyday work.

Course Content

1. Participants learn about the basic requirements for agile collaboration, including purpose, commitment, heterogeneous teams, transparency, empowerment and participation.
2. They reflect on their own corporate culture and recognize how much agility is possible in their own environment.
3. They learn how to establish a culture of success: through constructive feedback, conflict and error culture.
4. They understand the requirements that agile teams must fulfill, including methods such as daily stand-up, Kanban board, retrospective, delegation poker and more.
5. Managers receive impulses on how they can manage less and lead more, e.g. through Powerful Questions and constructive criticism.
6. On an individual level, participants learn how to lead themselves better, sharpen their mindset and make decisions with confidence.
7. They look at how to deal with complexity: predictability vs. flexibility and the role of a positive inner attitude.
8. In the transfer part, the participants develop concrete agreements for their agile practice in everyday life.
9. A variety of methods: individual, partner and group work, experience-oriented learning projects, lecture, educational talk, plenary discussion.

Skills Acquired

Participants acquire the ability to put agile principles into practice, make their team more agile, manage themselves better and remain capable of acting in complex situations. They learn tried-and-tested agile methods and strengthen their communication, reflection and leadership skills.