Leading the Agile Organization
Learn key skills and mindsets vital to leading an agile and adaptive organization. You will improve your ability to confidently make hard-to-reverse choices, maneuver through uncertainty, and inspire others to join you in taking risks to grow, innovate, and improve the value delivered to your customers and stakeholders.
By some estimates, up to 80% of all strategies — however brilliant — never generate their intended results. Rather than describing these disappointments as ‘failures of execution,’ leaders can mold both themselves and their organizations to successfully address the gap between strategy and results.
To achieve this agility, organizations require leaders who are perceptive, comfortable with their various roles, and clear about their path to value.
In this program, you will learn more about these key skills and acquire the mindsets vital to leading an agile and adaptive organization. You will improve your ability to confidently make hard-to-reverse choices, maneuver through uncertainty, and inspire others to join you in taking risks to grow, innovate and improve the value delivered to your customers and stakeholders.
For a complete program schedule download the agenda.
Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at +1 212-854-3395 for a personal conversation to learn more.
This program will help you become a strategic leader who inspires and motivates others to take risky, time-sensitive actions in pursuit of valuable goals. Program participants will walk away knowing how to:
- Foster agility at the leadership, resource, organizational, and strategic levels
- Build confidence and competence to drive results and accountability
- Link strategy directly to action, using both dominant and ambidextrous capabilities
- Leverage culture and data to be adaptive; making timely adjustments in key behaviors
- Test power dynamics and learn effective communications techniques
Upon completion of this program, you will earn three credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.
The three-part program is structured around three key capabilities demonstrated by leaders of agile organizations.
For a complete program schedule download the agenda.
- Become aware of changes in situations, circumstances, and relationships and be unbiased and clear-sighted about personal and organizational feedback.
- Find, recognize, and use incoming information to update assumptions and adjust behaviors.
- Communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders in text, symbols, actions, and other means and paint a clear picture of what is happening and what needs to be done — in a language the target audience can understand.
- Set targets with clear consequences for gaps between desired and actual performance.
- Develop strength in areas other than your dominant processes and have the ability to support multiple different processes when appropriate.
This program is designed for:
- Leaders of departments and divisions
- Senior decision makers in growth-focused firms
- Aspiring leaders for whom uncertainty and complexity pose obstacles to advancement
- Managers seeking to support their teams to outperform rivals and delight customers
- Team leaders and individuals tasked with ambitious performance goals
Columbia Business School alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for this program. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit.
| Years of Management Experience | % |
|---|---|
| 20+ | 25 |
| 16-20 | 12 |
| 11-15 | 10 |
| 6-10 | 5 |
| 1-5 | 2 |
| Job Function | % |
|---|---|
| General Mgmt | 17 |
| Operations | 11 |
| R&D | 4 |
| Info Systems / Tech | 3 |
| Legal / Compliance | 3 |
| HR | 3 |
| Engineering | 2 |
| Other | 10 |
Upon completion of this program, you will earn three credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits.
This program is suitable for upper and senior-level executives are seeking to lead and inspire teams and organizations confidently through hard-to-make choices.