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Agile leadership: Self-organized collaboration in practice

Promoting self-organization - implementing agility - strengthening teams

This training is held in German.
Agility has been increasingly shaping the world of work for several years and has had a lasting impact on and changed collaboration and leadership in companies - especially in virtual collaboration. In order to remain successful in a competitive environment, managers today have to react more quickly, flexibly and empathetically to change. In this training course, you will learn what agile leadership looks like today and which forms have proven successful in practice. You will get to know practice-oriented principles and receive new impulses that will strengthen your leadership skills. Not only will you achieve your business goals more efficiently, but you will also encourage your employees to take responsibility and organize themselves in a dynamic, digitally networked world.

Contents

Agility and self-organization in the organization

  • Agile leadership - a response to complexity and increasing uncertainty.
  • What does agility achieve in terms of speed?
  • How are self-organization and agility connected?
  • Dealing with contradictions and cultural ambiguity in the organization.
  • Collaboration in the agile and hierarchical world - what matters.

The special features of agile leadership

  • Why and vision in focus - roles and attitude of agile leadership.
  • Effectively shape my role as an agile leader.
  • Agile collaboration vs. classic hierarchical leadership.
  • Servant leadership as coach, moderator and facilitator.
  • Transparency, participation and iteration.
  • Inspect & Adapt - the constant alternation of action and reflection.

Methods and tools for agile leadership and self-organization in teams

  • Design iterative work processes.
  • Team building for more agility in the team.
  • Develop principles of teamwork.
  • Maturity levels of self-organization in the team.
  • Autonomy and responsibility - strengthening ownership in the team.
  • The delegation board - a form of transparent division of responsibility.
  • Methods for decision making.
  • Meeting formats and concepts.
  • Feedback systems and goals in the team.

Transfer to your own management practice

  • Reflection on your own leadership context.
  • Open Space - clarification of open questions.
  • Exercise: Collegial case consultation.
  • Exercise: Individual one-to-one coaching.
  • Planning the first steps towards agile concepts.
  • Making transfer visible and effective with LEGO PLAY.

Learning environment

Once you have registered, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services relating to this training course in your online learning environment.

Your benefit

  • You have a clear picture of the new roles of managers and Employees in an agile organization.
  • You will deepen your attitude and practices towards agile leadership and self-organized collaboration.
  • They know the rules of the game for working profitably with self-directed teams.
  • As a manager, you will further develop agile leadership as "next level leadership".
  • You bring work processes in your area of responsibility into "flat structures".
  • They recognize the challenges and obstacles on the way to an agile organization and ways to overcome them.
  • You develop your Employees to take on more personal responsibility, team skills and entrepreneurial activity.
  • They create framework conditions and develop strategies to strengthen agile leadership and self-directed collaboration.
  • You will exchange ideas with managers from other companies and industries about the challenges of agile transformation and find joint solutions to key questions from your practice.

Methods

Trainer input, case/best-practice examples, impulses and transfer dialogs, exercises, discussion, group work, exchange of experiences, working with canvas, business games and practical situations, retrospective, joint reflections, peer consulting. The training is based on your practical cases and is shaped by your practical questions.

Recommended for

A practical training course for specialists and managers; product owners, scrum masters, agile project managers, product managers and agile coaches.

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The changing world of work also means that managers have to get used to new roles. Especially in an agile working environment, managers need to rethink their approach if they want to lead sustainably. We have put together some thoughts for you here on the role of managers in self-managed teams. Self-determination and self-direction are central to successful [...]

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23.06.2025
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