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Agile Leadership Specialization

Agile Leadership Specialization

Develop Agile Leadership Skills. Develop agile leadership skills by implementing change management, social psychology, and Agile principles and philosophy in business.

Instructor: Oxana Trotsenko

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5 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.8

(1,831 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Earn a career credential

Share your expertise with employers

5 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.8

(1,831 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Earn a career credential

Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

Apply Agile principles and philosophy within your team and organization
Develop change resilience at a personal, team, and organization level
Transform yourself, your team, and your organization from traditional into Agile

Overview

Constant fast change has become a reality of our time. Agile has become a popular leadership philosophy and a project management methodology for addressing this reality. While the theory is simple, it’s much more challenging to become Agile in practice.

To bridge the gap between an easy theory and complex application, you will learn three critical success components for executing the complexity of Agile in practice: the neuroscience of change, social psychology, and change management.

In this specialization, you will learn how to become an agile leader, how to build agile teams by using Agile philosophy and Scrum tools, and how to approach transforming a traditional organization into agile.

This specialization will prepare you to build change-resiliency within yourself, your team, and your organization and implement Agile practices where appropriate to leverage its maximum benefits.

What’s included

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Taught in English

34 practice exercises

Advance your subject-matter expertise

Learn in-demand skills from university and industry experts
Master a subject or tool with hands-on projects
Develop a deep understanding of key concepts
Earn a career certificate from University of Colorado System

Specialization - 5 course series

Agile Leadership: Introduction to Change

Course 19 hours4.8 (2,346 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Describe how and why change management approaches emerged in the business world
Distill key characteristics of an agile leader
Compare traditional and agile teams
Compare and contrast traditional and agile organizations

Skills you'll gain

Organizational Change, Leadership, Change Management, Agile Methodology, Team Leadership, Team Management, Organizational Structure, Leadership Development, Adaptability, and Business Transformation

Agile Leader Training

Course 215 hours4.8 (604 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Understand the neuroscience of change
Understand where you are with change, deconstruct fears and identify a path forward
Apply tools for building a new mindset by reframing and anchoring new states
Understand what positive psychology is and how to use it for personal transformation

Skills you'll gain

Continuous Improvement Process, Self-Awareness, Resilience, Positivity, Leadership Development, Growth Mindedness, Persistence, Dealing With Ambiguity, Personal Development, Change Management, Optimism, and Emotional Intelligence

Developing an Agile Team

Course 38 hours4.8 (546 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Now that you have undergone personal information, you will be better prepared to empathize, understand, and mentor individual members of your team on a similar journey. Leading teams towards change-resilience is not as simple as knowing and understanding the psychology of individuals multiplied by a number of team members. It requires a different approach.

In this course, you will learn what influences human behavior in teams by looking at social psychology. You will evaluate your team’s level of change resilience and agility, and you will be applying practical tools for building Agile teams by applying Scrum project management framework. You won’t stop there, you will learn how to be a servant leader. You will learn practical tools for organizing, leading, and facilitating a Scrum team. Parts of the content are written from a Scrum Master perspective, and even though you will not be able to use it as a Scrum Master certification, I will be sharing tools and best practices learned through my own experience of being a Scrum Master.

Skills you'll gain

Sprint Retrospectives, Agile Methodology, Sprint Planning, Team Building, Organizational Leadership, Agile Project Management, Innovation, Virtual Teams, Change Management, Team Leadership, Meeting Facilitation, Team Management, Psychology, and Social Sciences

Agile Organization

Course 49 hours4.8 (433 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Understand how to scale Agile
Compare and select the best change theory for the use case at hand
Develop a working knowledge of seven change management theories

Skills you'll gain

Organizational Change, Change Management, Scalability, Agile Methodology, Case Studies, Organizational Strategy, Culture Transformation, Leadership and Management, Agile Product Development, Leadership Studies, Business Transformation, Agile Project Management, and Organizational Development

Agile Leadership Capstone

Course 56 hours4.9 (450 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Apply parallel planning method
Develop a strategy for personal, team, and organizational transformation
Create a plan for change

Skills you'll gain

Business Transformation, Personal Development, Agile Methodology, Change Management, Organizational Change, Agile Project Management, Sprint Planning, Prioritization, Leadership, Goal Setting, Backlogs, Culture Transformation, Innovation, and Strategic Planning