1) The document discusses why agile leadership is important by providing examples from turning around Nissan Motor Co. and quotes from Forbes about agile leadership emphasizing flexibility, adaptability, and fast decision-making.
2) Agile leadership focuses on individuals and interactions over processes and tools as well as responding to change over following a plan. It is about both people and responsiveness.
3) The traits of agile leadership include having sincerity and clarity of vision, earning credibility and trust through character and competence, enabling faster interactions through collaboration tools, growing people through challenges and opportunities, having a hunger for innovation, courage and belief, and razor-sharp focus through right prioritization.
3. Ground Rules
• Q & A
• Sharing
• Interactive session. Saying YES and NO
• Tell backs
4. Disclaimer
• While making this presentation, I do not represent any organization.
• I don’t claim to be a subject matter expert. I am here to share with
you the limited experience I have.
5. Structure of Today’s Presentation
– About Leadership
– About Agility and Agile Leadership
– Traits of Agile Leadership
6. Why are we talking about leadership? Because
It turns around…
7. It is all about inspiring people to do things that serve them in
terms of their growth and development as individuals, while at
the same time adding significant value to the organization of
which they are a part.
What Leadership is all about?
10. Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
Working software over comprehensive documentation.
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
Responding to change over following a plan.
11. What Forbes say about Agile Leadership?
In the modern business world, many leaders emphasize the
importance of being "agile." Borrowed from the software world's
concept of agile development, this management style requires a
leader to be flexible, adaptable and fast in their decision-
making.
19. # 1: Intent – Sincerity is essential.
Is it growing people or getting things done?
• Drives the attitude
• Enhances the energy
• Affects the choice of words (have to/choose to)
• Ask yourself “What is the outcome that I want from this
interaction?”
20. # 2: Vision – Clarity matters
• The WHAT. The Vision
• The WHY. The Purpose
• The HOW. The Strategy
21. # 3: Earning Credibility & Trust – Creates
followers
• Character & personality
– Personal Credibility. Worth following?
• Competence
– Different types of competencies
22. # 4: Faster Interactions – Making life super fast
and easy
• Tools of collaboration & communication
• Standardization
• System Integration
23. Yes/No?
Would you like to work for a manager who is
personally interested in your growth?
25. # 5: Growing People – The greatest calling
• Trusting their abilities
• Challenging their strengths
• Bringing opportunities for Learning and Growing. (vertical vs
horizontal growth)
• Delegating to develop
• Taking the team onboard the planning process to develop them
26. Please turn towards the person next to you and share the ideas
discussed so far.
Now is the time for a TELL BACK!!!
27. # 6: Hunger for Innovation…
• High appetite for trying new options
28. # 7: Personal Courage & Belief…
• High level of conviction
29. # 8: Razor Sharp Focus…
• Right prioritization
• Ability to say NO
30. Do you want to become an even better Agile
Leader?
Yes/No?