The British Academy for Training and Development offers a comprehensive Leading Agile Transformation Course (ICAgile). It aims to provide professionals with the mindset and skills they need to effectively initiate and navigate agile change within various organisational contexts.

The course provides agile leadership with all the necessary tools for attendees to cross the line from a champion of transformational change to acceptance. It begins with agility issues at the enterprise level and works toward a fundamental understanding of business agility, along with the emphasis on organisational design that provides for adaptability.

Being a leader means learning to create agile mindsets and culture that facilitate innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The course expands on leadership styles, moving the students' mindset from traditional to transformational leaders while also defining emotional intelligence in support of teams during the change.

The core topics include the formulation and implementation of agile transformation strategy, using agile frameworks, and aligning enterprise goals with agile principles. Emphasis is also placed on spotting and removing organisational barriers, forming cross-functional teams, and enabling value-driven delivery.

Attendees will leave this course with an understanding of change management in agile environments, the ability to lead agile teams in navigating itself through uncertainty, and the confidence to act as an agile champion in their organisations by the end of this course. This kind of programme appeals to those who are themselves determined to be catalysts for sustainable growth driven by agility.

Objective:

By the end of this course, attendees will be able to:

Know the basics of business safety and that of enterprise level agility.Apply agile leadership principles in the process of cornerstone transformation in culture and organisation.Draft strategies that will execute an agile transformation using deep thoughtful frameworks.Developing and embedding an agile mindset across teams and departments.Scout and clear barriers within the organisation that render it impossible for any agility.Business objectives in line with agility and value to customers.Lead teams through an uncertain world with emotional intelligence and transformational leadership.Who Should Attend?

The course is designed for:

Senior executives and managers responsible for steering change from an agile perspective.Agile coaches, Scrum Masters and Project Managers looking to enhance their leadership capabilities.Agents of Change and HR leaders in cultural transformation.Product owners, team leads, and aspiring champions of enterprise agility.How Will Attendees Benefit?

Attendees of the Leading Agile Transformation Course (ICAgile) will gain both strategic insights and practical tools to become effective change leaders. Key benefits include:

Enhanced Leadership Skills: Apply agile leadership practices for inspiring, collaborating, and purpose driven leadership.Strategic Transformation Planning: Be able to develop and carry through agile transformation strategies in support of your organisation's goals.Cultural Change Expertise: Understand how to create and develop an agile mindset and culture that fosters innovation and adaptability.Confidence in Driving Change: Acquire skills to manage resistance, engage stakeholders, and maintain momentum in the transformation journey.Tools for Getting Access: To remove barriers that impede agile progress and ensure smoother operations.Wider Agile Knowledge: Discover agile frameworks and know-how to incorporate them in real work.Improved Emotional Intelligence: Help develop leading through empathy, self-awareness when it matters, and resilience during the change process.Certification Recognition: Gain ICAgile recognition, providing a further key marker in your professional profile as an agile leader and transformation specialist.

The course empowers attendees not only to understand agile transformation but to lead it with clarity, confidence, and measurable impact.

Introduction to Agile Leadership

• Understanding the role of leadership in agile environments

• Characteristics of effective agile leaders

Enterprise Agility and Transformation

• Fundamentals of business agility

• Systems thinking and organisational structures

Creating Agile Culture and Mindset

• Building a shared vision for agility

• Encouraging collaboration, learning, and resilience

Agile Transformation Strategy

• Creating transformation roadmaps

• Aligning strategy with agile delivery

Organisational Design and Impediments

• Identifying and overcoming structural barriers

• Supporting cross-functional teams

Leadership Styles and Emotional Intelligence

• From directive to transformational leadership

• Leading with empathy and self-awareness

Agile Frameworks in Context

• Overview of common agile frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, etc.)

• Selecting frameworks based on organisational needs

Change Management in Agile Environments

• Managing resistance to change

• Driving continuous improvement and innovation

Sustaining Agile Transformation

• Measuring agility and success

• Enabling long-term agile capability