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Crash course: Leading in agile organizational forms and flat hierarchies

First aid in dealing with difficult situations

This training is held in German.
Leadership roles and attitudes change in organizations that introduce and use agile methods and organizational forms. More personal responsibility and scope for decision-making is handed over to employees and managers experience the tension between trust and control much more intensively. The interaction with superiors and stakeholders is also changing. These changes arise, for example, through agile project and team methods (Scrum, Kanban, Design Thinking, etc.), by switching to agile overall organizations (holacracy, etc.) or simply by strengthening everyday agility and flattening hierarchies. Managers are confronted with many complex structural and human conflicts and challenges to which they must react in a situational and targeted manner. This "crash course" aims to sharpen understanding of these changes in the area of leadership and find new ways of dealing with them.

Contents

Leading with an agile mindset and agile methods - basics and challenges

  • Agile principles and values versus agile methods.
  • Refresher: What are agile working methods particularly suitable for - and in which contexts are they not?
  • Agile working and leadership within the existing hierarchy.
  • Typical challenges, conflicts and pitfalls of "agile" leadership.

Difficult leadership situations of the participants

  • Analyze your individual leadership situation and develop possible solutions.
  • Collegial consultations and situational methodological impulses.

Learning environment

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Your benefit

  • They develop a deeper understanding of the meaning and purpose of agile working methods.
  • You will gain an overview of your own leadership situation in an agile environment.
  • You will learn to recognize typical challenges of the "agile" leadership role in order to avoid pitfalls.
  • You will reflect on your own role as an "agile" manager and analyze the situation in order to find new solutions for your cases.

Methods

Input from the trainer, analysis methods, discussion and exchange, collegial case consultation.

Recommended for

Experienced managers who have not been working in agile forms of organization and/or flat hierarchies for long or whose organization and collaboration is being completely or partially converted to an agile way of working.

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