Applied Agility for Executive Leadership

Register for the Applied Agility Executive Leadership Program

Leadership does not occur in isolation as the act of leading is in service to others. However, executive leadership can feel isolating. This program brings together executives from different organizations and affords them the opportunity to learn and experiment together in a peer-based cohort, facilitated by a professional executive-level coach.

Focused on the top half of our Agile Leadership Compass , this program develops leadership competencies to improve leadership capacity and effectiveness through:

• greater self-awareness,
• situational adaptiveness,
• social connectedness, and
• strategic orientation.

Focused on vertical development, this program equips executives for success in the highly complex, rapidly changing environments in which they engage.

Program Structure

Applied Agility for Executives provides for immersive learning, application, and practice through two courses:

• Developing a Growth Mindset- Participants explore their orientation as a leader from an expert, achiever and catalyst perspective to improve their awareness, thinking, and behaviors.
• Developing Catalyst Behaviors- Participants explore their presence and balance their power as a leader to strengthen stakeholder relationships and improve team engagement.

Courses start in September and March and they run for approximately three months each, generally March through May and September through November. Individual cohorts may extend their times based on participant needs and schedules. These courses may be taken in either order and participants may take a break between courses if needed for scheduling purposes.

Program Engagement:

Program admittance is limited and although it is designed to be compatible with demanding schedules, it does require a commitment to the cohort sessions and executive coaching.

Two 12-week (3-month) courses make up this program with a mid-program break between them. Each course includes weekly 90-minute peer cohort sessions, monthly 60-minute global masterclasses, three one-on-one professional coaching sessions and daily practice in the course of your every day work. All sessions are professionally facilitated by a licensed ALJ Guide and executive coach.

Developing a Growth Mindset Focus and Learning:

A Growth Mindset Journey

Participants kick off the program with a one-on-one coaching session with their licensed ALJ Guide, meeting their cohort of peers, exploring their immunity to change, and creating a personal leadership growth goal to take them beyond their current leadership context. They prepare for their journey ahead of more self-awareness, real-time choices, and reflections to learn and grow.

Expert Mindset

Participants explore the difference between expertise and an expert mindset, and how that shapes their impact as a leader. They discover areas that require letting go and areas requiring grabbing on in order to shape an improved leadership profile. They reflect on other experts they work with and how their mindset shapes those relationships and their results.

Achiever Mindset

Participants explore the fine line between influence and manipulation as they learn the value of alignment alongside the challenge of groupthink. They learn how to broaden their gaze from the details of work toward coordinating that work and the strategy shaping the focus of that work. They navigate the stakeholder landscape of authority and politics to focus on performance and results.

Catalyst Mindset

Participants explore the boundaries where patience becomes stagnant, openness becomes uncertain, and empowerment becomes indecision. They learn that a true catalyst mindset is an alert and active mindset requiring courage, choice, and reflection. They begin to open their own mind to new possibilities, more diverse perspectives, and a more co-creative culture.

A Growth Mindset Checkpoint

Participants reflect on their journey. For those continuing on to the Developing Catalyst Behaviors course, this step is a checkpoint reflection from their initial goals to where they feel they currently are today. For those completing their journey, they develop a change story to share with their cohort, peers, and manager (when appropriate).

Developing Catalyst Behaviors Focus and Learning:

A Catalyst Growth Journey

Participants kick off the program with a one-on-one coaching session with their licensed ALJ Guide, meeting their cohort of peers, and exploring their role as a leader and how a more catalyst approach might offer areas for improvement. They prepare for their journey ahead of more self-awareness, real-time choices, and reflections to learn and grow.

Leadership Power & Presence

Participants explore their leadership power, the power through relationships, and how their power influences their presence as a leader. They learn how to situationally adjust their power balance to improve their effectiveness at work. Finally, they practice rebalancing power “in the room” for more effective teams, projects, and meetings.

Stakeholder Engagement

Participants discover how to make every conversation and decision better through a catalyst technique called Catalyst Conversations™. They learn the triggers that invoke threats and rewards in others and how to navigate dialogue to foster alignment and improve their influence, especially when dealing with differences, conflict, and feedback.

Leadership Focus

Participants explore the focus of leadership across three key domains: the work to be done, the people doing the work, and coordinating across them. Participants learn to inventory and rebalance their focus to improve their leadership effectiveness and grow others in the organization. Finally, they apply their learning in coaching and catalyzing others to improve their own leadership focus.

A Catalyst Behaviors Checkpoint

Participants reflect on their journey. For those continuing on to the Developing a Growth Mindset course, this step is a checkpoint reflection from their initial goals to where they feel they currently are today. For those completing their journey, they develop a change story to share with their cohort, peers, and manager (when appropriate).

Prerequisites:

Pricing:

• Category 1 pays 100%
• Category 2 pays 75%
• Category 3 pays 50%
• Category 4 pays 35%

What this means is that the cost of administering and facilitating these programs is sometimes greater than the fees Agile Leadership Journey receives from participants. We consider the portion of costs that Agile Leadership Journey absorbs to be an investment in the leaders of today and tomorrow.

Payment options:

Do you have a promo code? Enter it at registration and your invoice will reflect any applicable discount. Only one promo code will be accepted per registration.

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