Our leadership training is the investment in your people that will have the most impact
They will apply leadership situationally.
Be both inclusive and decisive.
Generate effective discussions.
Get the most out of their people.
Identify issues, as soon as they arise.
Be outcome-focused.
The world has changed. You need to adapt. Your people need to adapt. Help them.
Leadership
Our Agile Leadership program: Constructive AgilityⓇ for Leaders: more info is here.
Upcoming public workshops on critical leadership topics: here.
Tech
DevOps for Everyone: the only advanced DevOps program that includes AI and has an on-ramp for non-programmers! Here.
Recording of workshop of 2024-11-18: Get a taste of DevOps for Everyone, our advanced DevOps learning program. Watch the video!
Some Companies and Organizations We Have Helped
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“…by applying deep experience in organizational design and implementation, including psychology, appreciative inquiry and the agile 2 strategic approach, they provide innovative, customized and functional insights and directions that are immensely valuable and unparalleled in my nearly 35 years of starting and running organizations.”
— Rob Breiman
Director, Infectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute
Compare Our Agile Leadership Program With Harvard’s
Except that there’s really no comparison
Our program is vastly richer and broader.
Our view of agility is not based on “Agile frameworks” – rather, it is based on examination of highly agile companies like SpaceX, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, and Google.
Our leadership content is not one executive instructor’s opinion, but is based on the broad field of established research in situational leadership, relational leadership, and social identity; it is also informed by the recent work of people like Amy Edmondson of Harvard.
This broad foundation is needed for someone to build on as they progress as a leader. As such, our content is more “full spectrum”.
What is really powerful is if you couple a course with immersive development in which you practice and experiment with certain aspects of what you have learned, in the presence of people who have deep knowledge and experience in the topic. That is why we supplement our curriculum with immersive 2-day developmental workshops that you can choose from, run by a range of people who have extensive leadership experience of their own.
Why Most Leadership Training Is Not Effective for Product Companies
And how ours is different — because it focuses on the aspects of leadership that actually improve operational effectiveness and agility. Article.
Constructive Agility®
An approach to program management that is based on asking questions instead of checking boxes.
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 execs 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 organization.
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.