This course is part of the Agile Leadership Specialization

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Oxana Trotsenko

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Agile Leadership SpecializationUniversity of Colorado System

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This is a foundational course in the Agile Leadership Specialization. By the end of this course, you will build an understanding of key agile leadership concepts. You will begin building a toolbox that will give you an ability to evaluate and create a baseline for yourself as an agile leader. You will access your team’s readiness for change. You will also analyze to what degree an organization is agile, and evaluate its ability to respond to change triggers.

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Agile Leadership Specialization

Beginner Level

Helpful to have had 4 years of business workplace experience with some leadership responsibility.

Approx. 9 hours to complete

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What you will 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

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Course 1 of 5 in the

Agile Leadership Specialization

Beginner Level

Helpful to have had 4 years of business workplace experience with some leadership responsibility.

Approx. 9 hours to complete

English

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Oxana Trotsenko

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University of Colorado System

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Introduction to Change

Agile was born out of necessity driven by a changing business environment. But what triggered this change exactly? This week, you will define change and transformation, and examine change intensity levels and the reasons behind change acceleration.

2 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 28 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

12 videos

Specialization Introduction1mCourse Introduction1mMeet Oxana Trotsenko1mDefinition of Change3mChange Intensity Levels1mDeconstructing COVID-19 as an Example of Change 3mPace of Change2mDifference Between Transformation and Change 4mAgile Transformation56sChange Management Theories Overview 1mBehavior and Psychology of Change3mIntroduction to Change Key Concepts1m

4 readings

Meet the Team10mHow to get the most out of this specialization11mFAQ11mDifference Between Transformation and Change12m

1 practice exercise

Introduction to Change Module Review1h

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Agile Leader

Agile leadership is a fairly new concept, and it is typically used in contrast to traditional leadership.

This week, you will continue to build the foundational vocabulary for this Specialization by defining a traditional and agile leader and identifying their key characteristics. Are you wondering which one is better? You will be able to answer this question by the end of this week (the answer might surprise you). You will complete the week by analyzing yourself as a leader to understand where you fall on the agility scale. You will be using this assessment in Course 2 to benchmark your personal transformation.

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 9 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Agile Team

In this module, we will transition into the realm of the team. In order to transform your team, you need to understand the difference between a traditional and agile one. You will learn the definitions and key characteristics of both. You will also be introduced to the role and responsibility of a leader in leading an agile team. You will conclude the week by assessing your team’s level of agility. Similarly to your own assessment, you will be using your team’s baseline assessment to design an agile transformation plan later in the specialization.

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 8 min), 1 reading, 3 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Agile Organization

In the last module of this course, we will expand the concepts of traditional and agile to an organizational level. You will learn the definitions and key characteristics of a traditional and agile organization. At the end of the module, you will analyze an organization for its agility.

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 9 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM AGILE LEADERSHIP: INTRODUCTION TO CHANGE

by FSDec 23, 2020

The course is so relevant to the current global economic where competition is aggressive and the organizations need to have such agile leaders to compete successfully.

by SMJul 25, 2022

It was a fun course and the learning experience gave me sufficient insight to implement agile leadership in my workplace.

by AJMar 12, 2023

Wonderfully put together the basics with clear and concise explanations and reasoning. And the exercises and reflections towards completion of each module was engaging

by JBMay 2, 2022

This specialization in Agile is terrific, whether you are just starting out working with Agile, or trying to better your career. The information is succinct and the instructor is very knowledgeable.

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About the Agile Leadership Specialization

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.

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