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Constructive Agility®
The first and only leadership development program with the specific goals of increasing agility and operational effectiveness.
Companies don’t care about Agile — they care about agility and time-to-market, effectiveness, cost, and competitiveness.
Organizational culture expert and Human Synergistics CEO Dr. Rob Cooke:
"From my perspective, some of the most interesting work on project teams is being carried out by the Agile 2 Academy." (link to source)
Take a quick assessment of your organization’s path to agility!
We Help Organizations to Achieve True Agility and Effectiveness
Business leaders are disillusioned in the ability of “Agile methods” to help their organizations to improve in measurable ways. Yet organizations still need agility — now more than ever.
The problem is that so-called “Agile methods” and “Agile frameworks” do not actually lead to agility!
That’s why our approach is based on the actual research, rather than on the unsupported opinions of the Agile community.
In addition, we give you a dashboard that proves that things are working.
No Agile “frameworks”.
A learning-centric approach: Leadership, Communication, Collaboration, Neurodiversity, Theory of Constraints
Spanning all levels of leadership
Tailored to your situation and objectives
Measurement of outcomes — prove success
How We Are Different
Unlike large consulting companies,
We don’t bring in experts to make the sale to your board and then “hand off” to junior people.
We don’t take your people’s ideas and put those in our slide decks with our logo.
We don’t try to place large numbers of people on site — we leverage your own people.
We don’t generate a lot of meetings, activity, documents, and reports and then leave, with essentially no outcomes achieved.
Instead,
Our experts work directly with your people at the various levels of your org.
We develop your people in the course of implementing strategies — a developmental approach.
→ Those people become the next leaders.
→ They own the insights.
That creates actual agility!
The Foundations Of Our Work
Rather than opinionated approaches, our work is grounded in established research in respected fields. Our model of organizational agility is informed by examination of companies that have exhibited actual agility at scale.
The agility-promoting behaviors of Agile 2
Our Approach
We listen to your goals and concerns, interview your staff, do some value stream mapping and impediment identification, and conduct surveys. The survey assessment tools are based on industry-proven methods, are extremely powerful, and go way beyond Agile maturity assessments.
We share our findings and data about root causes and recommend areas of focus. We then work with you to devise strategies for both short-term and long-term improvement.
We support you in creating a learning-based system within your organization: one that continuously implements improvement strategies, measures outcomes, and adjusts the strategies to improve further.