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Introducing... The Agile Model® Endorsed by the American Management Association (AMA) and recognised as the "best leadership model for our changing world" in the 2008 book Human Resource Transformation.

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ADVANCED EXECUTIVE EDUCATION 

A Signature Event by. . .

“ W H I L E W E W E R E S L E EP“ W H I L E W E W E R E S L E EP“ W H I L E W E W E R E S L E EPI N G T H E WOR L D B E CA M EI N G T H E WOR L D B E CA M EI N G T H E WOR L D B E CA M E ‘ F L A T ’ ‘ F L A T ’ ‘ F L A T ’ ” ” ” is how Thomas Friedman describes

the rapid global transformation and convergence of new forces of change.

The accelerating rate and volume of change across the globe will continue to be driven by the exponential growth of competition,

global availability of information, macro-economic conditions, technologies advancement and the uncertainties in the global capital markets. These variables are individually

volatile, and their interactions make the future impossible to predict with any degree of certainty.

In many industries and countries today, managing resembles driving a race car through an unfamiliar route in the fog, leaving many scrambling

to reinvent themselves overnight to respond to fast-changing markets.

‘ 95% of the respondents said that being adaptive during the next 3 years was critical for their organisation to thrive.’

- Survey by Agility Consulting

- WHEN THE GROUND ROCKS, STRUCTURES MUST FLEX - The same is true for companies competing in today’s turbulent environment.

Organisations that are best able to anticipate market movements, re-emerge from the worst system shocks and take advantage of gaps left by those unable to withstand the brunt will win.

Doing so requires AGILITY.

STRATEGIC AGILITSTRATEGIC AGILITSTRATEGIC AGILITYYY... is

the new competitive metric… STRATEGIC AGILITSTRATEGIC AGILITSTRATEGIC AGILITYYY... is

NOTNOTNOT just the ability to be quick, but also to take strategic turns in timely fashion,

strategic re-direction / re-invention at high speed... IN TIME!!!IN TIME!!!IN TIME!!!

MOST COMPANIES DIE MOST COMPANIES DIE MOST COMPANIES DIE NOTNOTNOT BECAUSE THEY DO THE WRONG THINGS, BECAUSE THEY DO THE WRONG THINGS, BECAUSE THEY DO THE WRONG THINGS,

BUT BECAUSE THEY KEEP DOING WHAT BUT BECAUSE THEY KEEP DOING WHAT BUT BECAUSE THEY KEEP DOING WHAT USED TO BEUSED TO BEUSED TO BE THE RIGHT THINGS FORTHE RIGHT THINGS FORTHE RIGHT THINGS FOR TOO LONG…TOO LONG…TOO LONG…

The turbulence in corporations’ external environment challenges the capability of internal decision makers to effectively anticipate changing conditions. Unless enterprise flexibility and agility

is embedded into organisational DNA, reinventing outmoded business models or responding to environmental challenges stays a pipedream.

IS YOUR ORGANISATION ‘AGILE’ OR ‘FRAGILE’ IS YOUR ORGANISATION ‘AGILE’ OR ‘FRAGILE’ IS YOUR ORGANISATION ‘AGILE’ OR ‘FRAGILE’ ?????????

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“When the rate of change INSIDE an organisation is less than the rate of change OUTSIDE, the end is near.”

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Anticipate Change: Interpret the potential impact of business turbulence and trends along with the implications to the enterprise.

Generate Confidence: Create a culture of confidence and engagement of all associates into effective and collaborative teams.

Initiate Action: Provide the fuel and the systems to make things happen proactively and responsively… at all levels of the organisation.

Liberate Thinking: Create the climate and conditions for fresh solutions by empowering, encouraging and teaching others to be innovative.

Evaluate Results: Keeping the focus and managing the knowledge to learn and improve from actions.

(Source: The Agile Model®)

“Agility is not about perfect prediction of the future. Instead, it is about being prepared to exploit change, and making informed decisions as to the best moves

and countermoves for your organisation.”

- Agility Consulting And Training

MODULE 1 INTRODUCTION Experience a process called Strategic Visioneering™ - The very

visual and interactive tool will be applied early on Day 1 to identify the turbulence, uncertainty and complexity each participant is dealing with in his/her business environment Align people, processes and technology with The AGILE Model®

and learn how to put it into action Identify agile organisations and their unique characteristics What is strategic agility and why is it so important and relevant

during these complex and uncertain times? The value of creating a Personal Action Plan

MODULE 2 THE BUSINESS CASE FOR STRATEGIC AGILITY Why agility is a business imperative for today’s turbulent business

environment Analysing global research that recommends Strategic Agility as

a business imperative (e.g., McKinsey & Co., IBM, i4cp, etc.) What actions are successful global CEOs taking to navigate

complexity, uncertainty and turbulence Strategic Agility: The essence of effective leadership The necessity of improving your organisation’s capacity to adapt Understand and apply The AGILE Model® Build your business case for Strategic Agility in your organisation

MODULE 3 A PSYCHOLOGIST’S PERSPECTIVE ON AGILITY AND THE HUMAN BRAIN How learning creates new connections for brain growth Discover more about ‘learning agility’ Identify your leadership agility strengths and developmental needs

as a result of feedback from the Leadership Agility Profile™ (LAP) (Delegates will complete the LAP online prior to the start of workshop. LAP Reports will be distributed to each delegate)

MODULE 4 ANTICIPATING CHANGE Recognise the forces that cause change and raise your team’s

awareness of their importance and impact Monitor the key measurements and signals of change with

your customers, suppliers, employees etc. Scan your environment and search for information with

strategic implications Techniques agile leaders apply to anticipate and monitor

the forces of change Environmental Scanning and Scenario Planning

- How to apply these techniques to help anticipate change

MODULE 5 GENERATING CONFIDENCE Communicate a clear ‘line of sight’ - from your team’s

contribution to organisational success Demonstrate active leadership practices by staying in touch

and listening Align resources with priorities and provide your team with the

tools they need to win Develop the right team with skills to communicate and implement

strategy as it evolves Understand the importance of ‘employee engagement’ and

the key drivers in the ‘service profit chain’ Social networking analysis - What it is and how it applies

to generating confidence Continue, Start, Stop Technique - How to effectively provide

feedback

MODULE 6 INITIATING ACTION The OODA Loop – Understand and apply this framework and

tool for speed in decision making Bring focus and priorities consistently to action Drive decision capability throughout the organisation Create a culture that promotes action and a sense of urgency Enable and empower your team to act swiftly across functional

areas

MODULE 7 LIBERATING THINKING Foster a team climate that encourages innovation through

participation and idea generation at all levels Establish a high level of expectation for ongoing process

improvement Engage in a constant ‘outside the box’ search for new and

better ideas SCAMPER Technique - Understand and apply creativity tools

like the SCAMPER Technique

MODULE 8 EVALUATING RESULTS Develop and maintain a Strategic Agility scorecard that reflects

Key Agility Indicators (KAIs) for the 5 Drivers of The AGILE Model® - Anticipate Change, Generate Confidence, Initiate Action, Liberate Thinking and Evaluate Results

Use ‘best practice’ cases to experience conducting a brief Agility Audit™

Conduct a brief Agility Audit™ of your own organisation or business unit

Use the Strategic Agility Scorecard and your Agility Audit™ results to develop a plan for implementing Strategic Agility in your organisation or business unit

Finalise your individual Leadership Agility development plan

The Agile Model®

The Agile Model® provides a roadmap to help organisations and leaders navigate through the turbulent waters of today's business environment. The Agile Model® is built from best practices in organisational performance and is endorsed by the American Management Association (AMA) as well as recognised as the “best leadership model for our changing world” in the 2008 book Human Resource Transformation. The five drivers of an adaptive, agile individual, team or organisation, embodied in the model, include the ability and processes to anticipate change, generate confidence, initiate action, liberate thinking and evaluate results. Each of these drivers must exist within all three enterprise domains, i.e. people, processes and technology, in order to create and sustain an agile enterprise.

How The How The Workshop Will Be Conducted...Workshop Will Be Conducted...

Pragmatic Based on research content and real life experience of the facilitator, the course material and concepts can be implemented as soon as participants return to the workplace.

Participative This workshop is designed to be participative and interact ive in nature. Class lectures, team discussions and networking sessions contribute to the learning process.

Solution-Oriented The hands-on exercises and consultative sessions provide a unique forum to address critical concerns in today’s agile business environment.

This highly interactive workshop will introduce you to cutting-edge strategies for creating and protecting value in highly unpredictable environments. Rather than viewing corporate strategy in isolation, strategy is integrated with the organisational and leadership factors required to succeed in the real world. Each delegate is required to complete the Leadership Agility ProfileTM (LAP) prior to the workshop, the results will be used as a basis to create an individual Leadership Agility Development Plan during the class, which will help delegates transform vision into action by anticipating change and build more adaptive capabilities to be focused, fast and flexible.

“After a comprehensive literature research, the AGILE MODEL is

the best leadership model we have found for addressing the

dynamics of our fast paced world.”

- Dr. Robert Prescott, Author, Human Resource Transformation, 2008

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Dear Delegate (s),

It is a great honour to present the Strategic Agility workshop to you. Strategic Agility is about an

organisation’s ability to move up the strategic agility spectrum from “I’m totally oblivious to the potential changes that might impact our organisation” to “I see change coming and am prepared and already doing something about it.” The workshop tools include Strategic Visioneering™, scenario planning, environmental

scanning, OODA Loop Decision Analysis, employee engagement processes, and the Agility Audit process.

I hope that you find the materials covered to be timely, to be useful, but, most importantly, to make you,

as decision-makers, much more attuned to change and to become Strategically Agile.

See you Soon!

Nick

“Strategic agility is difficult to achieve. Companies that rise to the challenge can reap great rewards. Those that

remain inflexible risk extinction.” - Professor Don Sull

London Business School

Dr. Nick Horney is an internationally recognised expert with 21 years of experience in the area of Leadership Agility, Team Agility, Organisational Agility and Change Management. He is the Founder and Principal of Agility Consulting, a leading management consulting firm that specialises in helping global leaders and organisations build adaptive capability to anticipate change and respond appropriately to the increasing turbulence and uncertainty in our world.

Dr. Horney’s first-hand knowledge of agility and change management was developed during his 23 years in the Navy leading diving and explosive ordnance disposal teams, where change was a daily event. Nick retired from the U.S. Navy reserves at the rank of Captain.

Since 2001, Nick has consulted leaders to help transform their vision to action by anticipating change and building more adaptive capabilities to become focused, fast and flexible. Representative clients have included Harvard University, Harrah’s Entertainment, Dell, Lenovo, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, US Social Security Administration, ARAMARK, John Deere, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Celanese Chemicals, Cornell University and R.R. Donnelley.

Nick has been recognised as an expert in strategic agility by The CIO Magazine, American Management Association, Canadian Management Centre, Human Resource Planning Society and AMA Japan. He served as one of the Panel Experts for CIO Magazine's The Agile 100 Awards.

He served on the Executive Committee of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) as Vice President of Client and Constituency Relations. During his tenure, CCL was recognised by Business Week for delivering best-in-class leadership development products and services. The Secretary of Commerce appointed Dr. Horney to the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He also helped establish and served as a judge for the USA Today Quality Cup Award for ten years. Nick serves on the Board of the Human Resources Planning Society (HRPS), is a committee co-chair for the HRPS affiliate organisations and serves on McKinsey’s Online Executive Panel and the Chief Learning Officer Magazine's Business Intelligence Board.

Nick coauthored a book entitled Project Change Management, published by McGraw-Hill. He has authored or has been interviewed for various podcasts, magazines and journals including enterpriseleadership.org. The National Productivity Review, Training and Development Journal, CIO Magazine and Bank Marketing Magazine. His academic experience includes adjunct faculty work at Rochester Institute of Technology, Cornell University and the University of Central Florida.

He received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organisational Psychology from the University of South Florida.

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Client TestimonialsClient Testimonials

“Nick did an outstanding job working with U.S. AgBank. He brought his expertise to the

project while at the same time was able to work collaboratively and creatively with us to get exactly

what we needed.” - Sr V. President, Strategic Planning

U.S. AgBank

“Nick has been helping our executives to improve their change agility which is required

in our high-volatile industry.” - Managing Director of

Talent Management, Lenovo

“Nick is an innovative professional whose ability to

see the forest through the trees is unparalleled. His advice to Rice Toyota during the difficult recalls

of 2010 has been priceless.” - Internet Marketing Manager, Rice Toyota Motor Company

“I found the Agility seminar to be one of the

most useful seminars that I have attended in the past five years. The models presented caused me to re-evaluate our strategic direction. The sense

of urgency which I took away from this session was personally

energising. For a business leader, this seminar probes many of the vital issues confronting the turbo - charged environment in which

we are trying to survive.” - President,

KAO Specialties America

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