Your Next Step on the Agile Leadership Journey

Video Transcript

Pete Behrens: I want to personally thank you for joining this community of learning leaders. I'm really here in two roles: One as the Founder of the Agile Leadership Journey. I'm incredibly proud of the diversity and talent in this community. But also as a leader. I think I'm privileged because I face challenges every single day, and these tools and techniques and discussions helped me grow as a leader.

This community is pretty unique. Our blend of experienced guides with experienced leaders—the way we connect education and engagement through different mediums: classrooms, cohorts, coaching and even community events. It's really a neat space for expanding growth in all of us and something that we're are quite proud of. At our core, we teach catalyst leadership—you know, the change agents—and our hope is all leaders who walk through our virtual hallways will catalyze some part of their life,  their world. Whether that's their own personal journey of growth, or maybe mentoring another leader, or maybe sparking a change initiative in their organization, or even catalyzing other leaders in their organization. We hope that catalyst gets sparked in each and every one of us. And so whether you have completed one of our programs five years ago, or maybe even just last month, I encourage you to take a next step.

We focus on two primary areas of growth—personal development and growth, and organizational performance and health. And we have journeys across both of these at four levels of engagement—classrooms, cohorts, coaching, and community. Yes, we'd love to alliterate our Cs.

Let's start with the classroom. Our two core programs include Agility in Leadership, which focuses on personal growth, and Agility in Organizations for shaping culture. Some of our guides are exploring and experimenting with complimentary workshops in Psychological Safety, Women in Leadership, High Performing Teams, Introduction to Agile Systems, Lean Agile Procurement, and I could go on. As a catalyst, introducing your organization to one of these workshops might be a great way to inspire others to assist you on your journey.

Now, number two, we've got the cohorts. Our cohort practice programs run in three month courses twice a year. The Applied Agility in Leadership is offered through two courses. Developing a Growth Mindset explores the strengths and limitations across each layer as expert, achiever, and catalyst. Developing Catalyst Behaviors focuses on the presence, power, and focus on the leader, along with stakeholder engagement. For the Applied Agility in Organizations, we offer Shaping Culture for Business Agility, which is really applicable for all leaders at all levels of the organization to improve a part of the systems.

Now these programs can be customized and combined in unique ways for specific client engagements. Possibly as developing coaching conversations strategic orientation of leaders, stakeholder engagement and more.

Now number three, we dive into coaching.  We support both personal and organizational growth through coaching. For the personal side, we have our Changewise Leadership Agility 360 Assessment plus coaching. On the organization side, we offer Culture Values 360 Assessment and coaching. Both of these provide a rich set of data for any leader or leadership team to explore and for those seeking to assist others along these journeys. We offer a guide pathway to be licensed, teach and coach using this curriculum.

Now finally, we have community and our community is partitioned into three levels.

For everyone, we offer the Relearning Leadership Podcast and the entire resource library we have full of videos, articles, blog posts, surveys and more. For committed leaders (we define those as leaders who have recently completed a cohort or one of our coaching programs), we offer a monthly global education session and a Slack workspace to collaborate with others on that shared journey. And finally, exclusive to our guide community, we offer retreats, masterclasses, book clubs, and informal chats.

So like fitness and health, our leadership journey is never done. If we stop exercising and eating healthy, we don't just stay where we are, we'll actually decline and so will our leadership practice. I encourage you to have a healthy leadership diet and be active in your leadership practice. And don't be shy to reach out to us about any of these programs.

Thank you.