AGL-80/ Agile Leadership

3-Day Intensive Course for Managers, Leads & Change Agents

3 Intense Days
7 Hours per Day (Split into two 3.5-hour sessions)

Learning Path Visual

Your journey from traditional management to agile leadership mastery:

Day 1: Principles of Agile Leadership & Organizational Agility
Understand what agile leadership means in today’s volatile environment. Learn the principles behind adaptive organizations, servant leadership, and leading cultural transformation.

Day 2: Leading Teams — Coaching, Autonomy & Alignment
Develop practical leadership techniques for empowering cross-functional teams. Learn to coach instead of command, manage by context not control, and build psychological safety at scale.

Day 3: Strategy, Metrics & Leading Agile at Scale
Align vision with execution. Guide enterprise agility through OKRs, value streams, portfolio boards, and actionable metrics. Learn how to lead transformations across departments.

Course Overview

Agile leadership is more than managing sprints — it’s about creating the conditions for innovation, autonomy, and continuous learning at every level of the organization. This course trains modern leaders to shift from command-and-control to influence-and-enable, with practical tools for team empowerment and enterprise alignment.

You’ll leave with the mindset, frameworks, and facilitation techniques needed to lead change in dynamic, customer-driven environments.

You’ll learn how to:

• Apply agile values in leadership, not just delivery

• Develop high-performing, self-organizing teams

• Coach individuals and teams toward ownership and growth

• Manage complexity through alignment, not micromanagement

• Use OKRs, value streams, and agile metrics for strategic clarity

• Lead agile transformations with influence, not force

Designed for team leads, managers, directors, and product leaders, this course blends real-world practice with agile values.

What’s Inside Each Day

Day 1 — Principles of Agile Leadership & Organizational Agility

• What is Agile Leadership? Evolution from traditional models

• Servant leadership and systems thinking

• Adaptive organizations: navigating uncertainty and complexity

• Leadership agility vs. role-based agility

• Leading with values: transparency, iteration, feedback

• Workshop: Map your leadership style to agile principles

Tools: Leadership circle mapping, Agile Maturity Canvas
Focus: Mindset • Culture • Adaptation

Day 2 — Leading Teams: Coaching, Autonomy & Alignment

• Creating psychological safety and trust

• Coaching models (GROW, CLEAR) for agile environments

• Leading through context: vision, purpose, and boundaries

• Balancing team autonomy with cross-team coordination

• Facilitating retrospectives, standups, and feedback loops

• Workshop: Practice coaching scenarios and retro facilitation

Tools: Miro, Mentimeter, GROW templates
Focus: Coaching • Empowerment • Team Dynamics

Day 3 — Strategy, Metrics & Leading Agile at Scale

• Defining and aligning OKRs with Agile execution

• Value streams, customer journeys, and portfolio thinking

• Metrics that matter: flow, throughput, engagement

• Leading transformations without authority

• Influencing upwards and laterally in complex orgs

• Workshop: Agile transformation playbook design

Tools: Jira Align, OKR dashboards, Strategy Maps
Focus: Strategic Leadership • Enterprise Agility • Influence

Course Goals

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Lead teams and departments with an agile mindset

• Coach people through change and iteration

• Scale agile values across silos and levels

• Use data and storytelling to support transformation

• Create alignment between vision, team goals, and execution

• Become a catalyst for agility and innovation in your organization

Who Should Take This Course?

• Team leads looking to scale their influence

• Scrum masters evolving into organizational coaches

• Managers and directors building agile capabilities

• Product leaders aligning user and business value

• Change agents facilitating transformation programs

• Executives seeking enterprise-wide agility

Class Reference: AGL-80
Form Updated on: 06/16/2025 (Version 1)
Last Modified on: 06/16/2025

Program Note

This course draws from frameworks like SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, and Lean Change — and includes templates for team coaching, strategic alignment, and enterprise transformation.

Links to resources for presentations or summaries:

The rarest commodity is leadership without ego: Bob Davids at TEDxESCP – YouTube

Evolution of the Agile manager – A pattern for successful Agile managers

Leadership that gets results:http://hbr.org/2000/03/leadership-that-gets-results/ar/pr
Agile Leadership: Preparing for an Unconventional Career Path | Emily Phillips | TEDxUWMilwaukee – YouTube
Leadership lessons: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/coronavirus-leadership-women-leaders-jacinda-ardern/
History of Lean:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zbkh0VkFg8
Agile Leadership Practice: https://blog.crisp.se/2021/04/27/mattiasskarin/introducing-the-agile-leadership-practice-library
Agile Manifesto:https://agilemanifesto.org

Leadership Lessons from Extremely Successful Sports Teams – Ron Eringa |

Agile Leadership Developer
An Agile organization, let’s lose all the managers?! – Ron Eringa |

Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’ | Cambridge Analytica | The Guardian

Don’t let impostor syndrome hold you back

PERSONALITY TESTS

“Myers-Briggs”:https://reason.com/2018/10/20/myers-briggs-is-bunk/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=other&utm_campaign=opencourse.GdeNrll1EeSROyIACtiVvg.announcements%7Eopencourse.GdeNrll1EeSROyIACtiVvg.yunH6dOQEeit8hIlOoMESg

Trust and Technology: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/opinion/sunday/privacy-trust.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Sunday%20Review

Personality and social bonds: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/smarter-living/what-makes-people-charismatic-and-how-you-can-be-too.html?fallback=0&recId=1PXC6wWVvnDleRGwDx9IYh2SoNb&locked=1&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=MA&recAlloc=home&geoCountry=US&blockId=home-living-vi&imp_id=612288019

Cognitive Bias mitigation: https://effectiviology.com/cognitive-debiasing-how-to-debias/

Hartman personality profile: https://brandongaille.com/explanation-the-hartman-color-code-personality-test/

Brief pédagogique en français

AGL-80/ Agile Leadership est présenté ici en version synthétique française afin que les équipes pédagogiques puissent évaluer rapidement l'intérêt du module.

Le module s'inscrit dans la famille Formations agiles. Il peut être adapté au calendrier de l'école, au niveau Tous niveaux, au volume horaire 21 h et aux modalités d'évaluation prévues.

Objectif d'intervention

Ce module vise à faire pratiquer les méthodes Agile dans des situations de projet réalistes.

Livrables et activités possibles

• rituels Scrum, backlog, sprint planning et rétrospectives
• communication de projet, priorisation et coordination d'équipe
• livrables évaluables pour simuler une équipe produit ou delivery

Adaptation école

LC peut ajuster le déroulé, la langue d'enseignement, les supports, les exercices et les critères d'évaluation selon la promotion, le diplôme, le niveau d'autonomie attendu et les contraintes de planning.

Pour une version détaillée du syllabus en français, LC confirme le programme final après cadrage du niveau, des heures, du calendrier et des livrables attendus.