33 Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) courses delivered Live Online

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for Professionals who want to develop or strengthen their leadership position will benefit from this course. Overview Enhance your leadership effectiveness through your message Communicate with greater openness and authenticity Craft compelling messages that connect people to purpose Engage, motivate, and inspire others to embrace change Apply your leadership voice to increase your impact and influence Leaders inspire followership in others. Whether speaking conversationally or presenting before a group, a powerful leadership message delivered with impact and focused on the needs of the audience, can motivate and energize others. Private classes on this topic are available. We can address your organization?s issues, time constraints, and save you money, too. Contact us to find out how. 1. LEADING WITH AUTHENTICITY * Adopting a Structured Approach * Linking Authenticity and Awareness * Enhancing Self-Awareness * Applying the Johari Window 2. YOUR LEADERSHIP VOICE * Becoming an Authentic Leader * Assessing Key Competencies * Defining Your Leadership Purpose 3. A COMPELLING VISION * Crafting Your Vision for Change * Clarifying Goals and Outcomes 4. CRAFTING YOUR MESSAGE * Speaking with Credibility, Emotion, and Logic * Leading from Anywhere * Applying Techniques for Engaging Others * Engaging Through Storytelling 5. DELIVERING YOUR MESSAGE * Bridging Different Thinking * Flexing Communication Styles * Adjusting for Style and Impact 6. REVIEWING YOUR RESULTS * Reviewing and Adjusting * Taking an Iterative Approach * Repeating, Reiterating, and Building Support

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for Individuals taking this course may be new managers and individual contributors seeking to develop or enhance leadership abilities with practical skills. Overview Transition from an individual contributor to a leader. Develop an effective team. Lead a team effectively. Increase your effectiveness in leading different types of teams. Develop a team mission, values statement, and vision to achieve business results. You have developed skills to be successful in your field. In this course, you will learn the practical skills you need to be an effective leader in your organization. Leadership enhances the skills employees at all levels need to be truly successful. When you learn practical leadership skills, you\'ll have the ability to motivate, coach, communicate with, and teach employees in such a way that they are more effective in their jobs and, as a result, you become more effective in your job. Private classes on this topic are available. We can address your organization?s issues, time constraints, and save you money, too. Contact us to find out how. Prerequisites Students should possess experience working in an organization as an individual contributor or possibly as a manager. 1. TRANSITIONING FROM INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR TO LEADER * Define Leadership * Identify Your Leadership Style * Redefine Your Role 2. DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE TEAM * Build an Effective Team * Coach for Performance * Empower Your Team Members 3. LEADING A TEAM EFFECTIVELY * Influence for Results * Lead Your Team Through Organizational Change 4. LEADING DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEAMS * Work with Different Types of Teams * Overcome Communication Barriers * Overcome Issues Among Team Members 5. ALIGNING YOUR STRATEGY FOR BUSINESS RESULTS * Establish a Team Mission * Determine Team Core Values * Write a Team Vision Statement

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for IT Professionals who expect to or who have recently transitioned into a management role will benefit from this course. Overview Make a smooth transition into management Develop your authentic leadership style Engage and empower staff to achieve excellence Build high-performing, collaborative teams Apply delegation best practices Attract and retain great staff From developing an inspiring vision and empowering members to reach it, to meeting deadlines, and evaluating results. This course will teach students the skills and behaviors needed to successfully transition into an IT manager role. Private classes on this topic are available. We can address your organization?s issues, time constraints, and save you money, too. Contact us to find out how. 1. MAKING THE TRANSITION INTO LEADERSHIP * Defining Success * Developing Leadership Competencies * Acting as Leader, Liaison, Figurehead. Monitor, Disseminator, and Spokesperson * Allocating Resources * Acting Entrepreneurially * Negotiating and Handling Disturbances 2. BUILDING TRUST, ENGAGEMENT AND INVOLVEMENT * Applying SCARF * Leading by Example with the 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence - Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Motivation, Empathy, and Social Skill * Engaging, Involving, and Motivating Others * The 4 Disciplines of Motivation - Behavioral, Cognitive, Psychodynamic, and Humanistic * Working with Differing Personality Styles * Developing Your Leadership Psychological Toolkit * Discovering and Meeting Stakeholder Expectations 3. COLLABORATION & TEAMS * Creating, Facilitating, and Maintaining Teams * Building a Team through Culture, Human to Human Relationships, Effective Communication, and Setting and Meeting Goals & Objectives * Modern, Autonomous, Self-Organizing, and Cross-Functional Teams 4. BUILDING PEOPLE WITH CHALLENGING WORK * Willingness to Delegate * Delegating Successfully - Preparing and Researching, Clarifying the Intent of the Task, Planning Your Delegation, Delegating Responsibility and Empowering Your Staff to Take Action, and Providing Ongoing Support and Oversight 5. ATTRACTING AND KEEPING GREAT PEOPLE * Managing Performance * Knowing Your Staff * Checking Assumptions * Engaging Your Team * Leading and Coaching for Success * Managing Disruption

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for Managers, directors, executives, and others responsible for leading teams, overseeing projects, and developing new leaders will benefit from this course. Overview Bring about valuable and positive change in those you lead Increase engagement, motivation and morale in your team Enhance performance of individuals and the team Provide an authentic role model that inspires followership Develop others into leaders This course will help students develop authentic leadership qualities that motivate and drive others to reach their full potential, and become the transformational leaders of the future. Private classes on this topic are available. We can address your organization?s issues, time constraints, and save you money, too. Contact us to find out how. 1. DEFINING TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP * Comparing Leadership Styles * Developing the Attitudes and Beliefs of a Transformational Leader 2. BEING AN AUTHENTIC LEADER * Knowing Who You Are * Fostering Authenticity and Credibility 3. DEMONSTRATING LEADERSHIP PRACTICE * Following the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership 4. BUILDING ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION * Understanding the Drivers of Employee Engagement * Motivating Like a Transformational Leader 5. OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE * Coaching for Performance * Supporting Performance through Partnership * Unlocking Potential * Developing and Transforming Careers 6. MENTORING LEADERS * Growing Leaders * Putting Relationships First * Focusing on Character * Capitalizing on Strengths * Showing Optimism and Not Skepticism * Seeking Passion and Success 7. COMMITTING TO TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for Team leaders, managers, executives and other business professionals, as well as those who would benefit by being able to assert themselves more effectively in a professional environment will benefit from this course. Overview Develop the necessary skills to communicate with confidence Apply communication styles that maximize benefits Augment your listening and hearing skills to increase engagement Utilize that art of asking questions to elicit more from others Leverage your body language for full communication Make the best first impressions by looking, sounding and being confident In this course, students will discover the best techniques to be properly assertive, and what are the ideal approaches in differing situations. Private classes on this topic are available. We can address your organization?s issues, time constraints, and save you money, too. Contact us to find out how. 1. WHAT IS ASSERTIVENESS? * Differentiating Self-confidence from Assertiveness * Understanding the Four Styles of Communication * What Separates Assertiveness from Passiveness, Aggressiveness, and Passive-Aggressiveness 2. DIMENSIONS OF COMMUNICATION * Differentiating Listening from Hearing * Developing Emphatic Listening Skills * Utilizing Question Types - Open, Clarifying, and Closed * Converting Negative Thinking into Positive Thinking 3. BODY LANGUAGE SAYS IT ALL * Managing Your Appearance * Understanding Non-verbal Communication * Making the Right First Impression * Speaking with Confidence * Relaxing and Reducing Anxiety 4. DEALING WITH DIFFICULT SITUATIONS * Dealing with Difficult People * Building Rapport and Trust * Appreciating the Different Ways that People Send and Receive Information * Breaking Down Barriers and Building Consensus * Applying PEGASUS * Utilizing a Tactical Approach * Choosing the Proper Form of Communication

Leadership is about 'getting stuff done'. This course concentrates on just that. In a complicated world, it helps leaders to ensure that the right stuff gets done at the right time and in the right way.

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the DevOps Leader course are professionals including: Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program, Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches, Business Managers, Business Stakeholders, Change Agents, Consultants, DevOps Consultants, DevOps Engineers, IT Directors, IT Managers, IT Team, Leaders, Lean Coaches, Practitioners, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, System Integrators, Tool Providers Overview The learning objectives for DOL include a practical understanding of: - DevOps and time to market - The business and IT perspectives - Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT - Planning and organizing - Understanding performance and culture - Measurement differences - Designing a DevOps organization - Focusing on what matters - Ideas for organizing workflows - Sharing information - Defining meaningful metrics - Value stream mapping - The Spotify Squad model - Managing culture change - Popular tools and key practices - Putting it all together The DevOps Leader course is a unique and practical experience for participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach and make an impact within their organization by implementing DevOps. Leading people through a cultural transformation requires new skills, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders up, down and across the IT organization must align and collaborate to break down silos and evolve the organization. The course highlights the human dynamics of cultural change and equips participants with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum through the use of real-life scenarios and case studies. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as understanding Value Stream Mapping. Prerequisites * DevOps Foundation 1 - DEVOPS AND TIME * What Is DevOps? * Why Do DevOps * Companies Doing DevOps * The Magic Equation 2 - KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEVOPS IT AND TRADITIONAL IT * What Sets DevOps IT apart from Traditional IT * How DevOps IT is Organized Differently * How to Perform to a Different Standard * How to Use Different Measurements 3 - BECOMING A DEVOPS ORGANIZATION * Transformational Leadership * Redesigning An Organization for DevOps * Design Principles * Focus * Work * Information * Metrics 4 - VALUE STREAM MAPPING * What is Value Stream Mapping? * Why Do We Need to Use this Framework? * Types of Maps * How to Create a Value Stream Map? * Types of Data to Collect * How to Handle Exceptions 5 - VALUE STREAM MAPPING EXERCISE 6 - SQUAD ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL * Conway's Law * The Problem with Silos * Spotify?s Squad Organization Model (Structure, Roles) * Squads * Tribes * Chapters * Guilds * How to Reorganize in Order to Move to this Model 7 - MANAGING CULTURE CHANGE * What is Culture and How Does it Impact Performance? * Types of IT Culture * Cultural Traits of a DevOps Organization * How to Manage Change 8 - CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE * Types of IT Culture * What is a DevOps Culture * How To Manage Change * The Three Phases Of Change * Types of Changes That Need to be Implemented 9 - POPULAR DEVOPS TOOLS AND PRACTICES * DevOps Tools Periodic Table * Top DevOps Tool Categories * Common and Popular Practices 10 - BUILDING A BUSINESS CASE 11 - BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER 12 - ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION 13 - EXAM PREPARATIONS * Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List * Sample Exam Review ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans DevOps Leader (DevOps Institute) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the DevOps Leader (DevOps Institute) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for Team leaders, managers, executives, and other business and IT professionals who lead others as well as Individual contributors ready for transformational self-development as a leader. Overview Recognize vulnerability as the emotion we feel during times of uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. Explain why courage requires vulnerability. Establish a link between what I learned and behaviors I want to change. Recognize the critical role that self-awareness plays in daring leadership. Give examples to support how armor - not fear -is the greatest obstacle to daring leadership. Identify the four skill sets that make up courage: rumbling with vulnerability, living into our values, BRAVING trust, and learning to rise. Recognize that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are measurable, observable, and teachable. Recognize that vulnerability is the birthplace of many of the behaviors that define daring leadership, including creativity, accountability, and difficult conversations. Give examples of why daring leadership requires showing up for hard conversations and rumbles, including giving and receiving feedback. This workshop is all about your own leadership self-awareness, identifying your call to courage as a leader and the learning, practice and integration of the four courage skills sets so you can show up authentically in life and leadership. Dare to Lead? is the ultimate playbook for developing brave leaders and courageous cultures. The greatest barrier to daring leadership is not fear; the greatest obstacle is armor ? how we self-protect when we feel uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. Learn the skills to move from armored leadership to daring leadership. Daring leaders are self-aware, know how to have hard conversations, hold themselves and others accountable, build trust, lead with empathy and connection, take smart risks that lead to innovation, reset quickly after disappointments and setbacks, and give and receive feedback. This interactive curriculum is delivered in five, half-day sessions and is based on the research by Bren‚ Brown. This course comes with a PDF workbook and an Amazon gift card to purchase the Dare to Lead? book in the version of your choice. You also have access to a series of leadership and personal development assessments and exclusive training videos led by Dr. Bren‚ Brown. At the end of the event, a digital badge is awarded to those who complete 24 hours of course content. THE HEART OF DARING LEADERSHIP * Permission Slips * Container Building ARMORED LEADERSHIP VERSUS DARING LEADERSHIP * Call to Courage * Assembling Our Armor * Building Grounded Confidence to Replace our Armor * Aplying the 5Cs SELF-AWARENESS & EMOTIONAL LITERACY * Developing Emotional Literacy * Getting Curious About Emotions * Exploring the Iceberg THE MYTHS OF VULNERABILITY * Rumbling with Vulnerability * The Six Myths of Vulnerability * Exploring Your Arena SHAME RESILIENCE * Shame 101 * Defining Shame * The Physiology of Shame * Shame Shields * How Shame Shows Up in Organizations * How Shame Shows up at Work EMPATHY AND SELF-COMPASSION * Attributes of Empathy * What Does Empathy Look Like? * Empathy Misses * Comparative Suffering * Self-Compassion * Talk to Yourself the Way You Talk to Someone You Love * Empathy & Self-Compassion Commitment * Supplemental Exercise: Kristin Neff?s Self-Compassion Scale * Supplemental Exercise: Putting Empathy, Curiosity, and Rumble Tools in Action LIVING INTO OUR VALUES * Living Into Our Values * Values Clarification * Taking Values from Professing Words to Practicing Behaviors GROUNDED CONFIDENCE AND RUMBLING SKILLS * Grounded Confidence and Rumbling Skills * Rumble Starters * The 5Cs of Strategic Thinking, Decision Making, and Delegation * Using the 5Cs * Supplemental Exercise ? Gritty Faith & Gritty Facts * Supplemental Exercise ? Horizon Conflict ENGAGED FEEDBACK * Giving Engaged Feedback * Recognizing Defensiveness in Feedback Conversations BRAVING TRUST * BRAVING Trust * Square Squad * Rumbling with Self-Trust * Trust with Others * Trust on Teams * Rumbling with Living BIG LEARNING TO RISE: THE RECKONING * Learning to Rise: The Rising Strong Process * The Rising Strong Process * Getting Emotionally Hooked * Offloading Hurt: Barriers to Reckoning with Emotion * Strategies for Reckoning with Emotion THE RUMBLE AND THE REVOLUTION * Writing My SFD * The Delta * The Revolution: When the Process Becomes a Daily Practice * Supplemental Exercise ? Reset and Resilience Practices INTEGRATION * Dare to Lead Integration Plan

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for Individuals taking this course are business professionals seeking to develop or increase their emotional intelligence. Overview Develop a leadership style that gets results Employ suitable motivation techniques for your team or unit Utilize your communication style to provide influence to drive direction Empower your team to achieve the results you and they want Success is measured by results and results are only accomplished with effective planning efforts. Detailed plans and a captivating vision are important, but true accomplishment is in carrying your goals through to a winning outcome. In this workshop, you will learn how to find and strengthen your leadership voice and foster employee buy-in to exceed expectations while achieving the most positive outcome. Private classes on this topic are available. We can address your organization?s issues, time constraints, and save you money, too. Contact us to find out how. 1. LEADERSHIP STYLE GUIDE * Leadership characteristics * Crucial abilities of leaders * Determining the Type of Leader You Want to Be 2. UNDERSTANDING MOTIVATION * What motivates people? * Strategies for motivation * Motivation for behavior modification 3. ADAPTING COMMUNICATION * Understanding communication styles * Comparing the 4 Style Traits * Adapting to Differing Communication * Communication adaptability 4. STRATEGY AND RESULTS * Strategy and planning * Building effective team visions * Creating personal visions 5. BUILDING A BETTER TEAM * Team development * Handling conflict within a team * Developing Trust and Respect 6. ENABLING OTHERS TO ACT * Managing the Workload * Major factors of delegation * Steps in delegation * Successful delegation * Avoiding Wasted Time and Energy * Following-Up to Ensure Success ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans Accomplishing the Results You Want (Second Edition) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Accomplishing the Results You Want (Second Edition) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for managers, team leads, and individual contributors on techniques and best practices for continual improvement of themselves as leaders. Overview Define leadership. Assess your own leadership traits. Establish your leadership development plan. Develop your communication skills. Build your reputation. You have transitioned from an individual contributor to a manager, or as an individual contributor, you\'ve acquired practical skills to enhance your leadership abilities. When you want to take your leadership skills to the next level, you assess your leadership traits, develop your communication skills, and build your reputation. These strategies can increase your ability to effectively influence others and get results. Private classes on this topic are available. We can address your organization?s issues, time constraints, and save you money, too. Contact us to find out how. Prerequisites Students taking this course should have completed the course: Practical Leadership (Second Edition) 1. DEFINING LEADERSHIP * Topic A: Identify Leadership Attributes * Topic B: Identify Leadership Responsibilities 2. ASSESSING YOUR LEADERSHIP TRAITS * Topic A: Assess Your Leadership Characteristics * Topic B: Determine How Colleagues View Your Leadership * Topic C: Evaluate Factors that Affect Your Leadership 3. ESTABLISHING YOUR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PLAN * Topic A: Identify Your Destination * Topic B: Establish Your Map * Topic C: Build a Leadership Development Plan 4. DEVELOPING YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS * Topic A: Upgrade Your Listening Skills * Topic B: Improve Your Communication Effectiveness 5. BUILDING YOUR REPUTATION * Topic A: Establish Your Credibility * Topic B: Use Influence to Get Results ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans Developing Yourself as a Leader (Second Edition) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Developing Yourself as a Leader (Second Edition) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.