Agile Management and Leading Organisational Innovation

Course Overview

Managers are promoted for competence and then judged on agile management and innovation leadership, which nobody trained them for. When innovation leadership is unclear, people default to protecting their own function. It concentrates on the parts of the practice within organisational leadership that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. Applied research in organisational leadership consistently shows that early structure around agile management and innovation leadership reduces downstream rework. They leave able to brief senior management on this area of organisational leadership in terms that support a decision. The level assumes working familiarity with the management team but no prior formal training in innovation leadership. Progress on agile management and innovation leadership is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make innovation leadership hard in practice. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this aspect of organisational leadership that would make a visible difference.