This course is part of the Agile Leadership Specialization

Oxana Trotsenko

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Agile Leadership SpecializationUniversity of Colorado System

About this Course

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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.

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

Approx. 9 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

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Oxana Trotsenko

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Business School

3,149 Learners

5 Courses

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100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Course 3 of 5 in the

Agile Leadership Specialization

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Beginner Level

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

Approx. 9 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

Offered by

University of Colorado System

The University of Colorado is a recognized leader in higher education on the national and global stage. We collaborate to meet the diverse needs of our students and communities. We promote innovation, encourage discovery and support the extension of knowledge in ways unique to the state of Colorado and beyond.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Social Psychology

When we lead change, we typically rely on change management theories for help. They bring structure, ease, and they provide context for the psychology of an individual and also organizational psychology. This leaves a gap, which manifests in how others influence individual behavior, or, in other words, social psychology. Even though the domain of social psychology is often overlooked, it provides key insights for the successful execution of change management theories. In this module, you will learn the basics of social psychology, which is instrumental as you begin implementing change management theories at the team and organizational levels.

2 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 29 min)

8 videos

Course Introduction2m

Module Introduction32s

Social Psychology Overview4m

Belonging and Understanding4m

How to Build Belonging and Understanding6m

Controlling, Trusting, Self-enhancing2m

Leader Tools for Influencing, Controlling, Trusting, and Self-enhancing5m

Key Concepts2m

2 practice exercises

Module 1 Practice Quiz32m

Module 1 Quiz1h

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Agile Team

You have a team and you’d like it to become Agile. Where do you start? You start at the beginning by developing a team working agreement, empathy map, and introducing the basic concepts of Scrum to your team, which you will work through in this module.

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 13 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

5 videos

Module Introduction48s

Team Working Agreement3m

Empathy Map3m

Scrum Overview3m

Key Concepts2m

2 readings

Team Working Agreement Template10m

Empathy Map Template10m

2 practice exercises

Module 2 Practice Quiz30m

Module 2 Quiz1h

Week

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Agile Team Collaboration

Scrum is a lightweight Agile framework. It can be applied across different industries, it is simple, and it can be adopted fairly quickly if the team is open to it.

In this module, you will learn Scrum terminology and tools for transforming your team into an Agile one. You will be introduced to the concept of sprint planning, daily scrum, work velocity, and retrospective. As you begin implementing these tools, invite your team to take a learning journey with you. You can suggest it as a “pilot” and see if it works well for your industry, company, and your team.

2 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 22 min)

7 videos

Module Introduction3m

Scrum Terminology6m

Planning a Sprint3m

Daily Scrum1m

Work Velocity2m

Facilitating a Retrospective3m

Key Concepts1m

2 practice exercises

Module 3 Practice and Self-reflection30m

Module 3 Quiz1h

Week

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Agile Team Leadership

When leading a team, a lot of key moments are discovered through the art of facilitation. It’s a key skill for any leader, regardless of rank.

2 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 44 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

9 videos

Module Introduction41s

Servant Leadership4m

Building Shared Understanding2m

Facilitation2m

Facilitating in an Online Environment3m

Live Facilitation4m

Principles of Sustainable Innovation - Guest Speaker22m

Building Blocks of Innovation - Guest Speaker59s

Key Concepts1m

1 reading

Servant Leader Meeting Checklist Template10m

1 practice exercise

Module 4 Quiz1h

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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