Agile Change Agent Course Key Takeaways
The Agile Change Agent Course is for anyone who is experiencing change at work. You will take a deep dive into monitoring, managing and understanding what change is taking place and why it is important.
By completing the certified Agile Change Agent Course you will:
Identify the benefits of change relevant to your business
Understand the importance of change and how to communicate with your team
Create your own agile road map and a road map for your stakeholders
Learn techniques to engage stakeholders in your change culture
- Virtual course, hosted on Microsoft Teams
- Comprehensive pre-course materials including e-book*
- Application of the learning to your situation throughout the course
- Highly interactive - working in pairs, small groups and whole group discussions
- Excellent attendee feedback and high pass rate for examinations
- Free access to online group coaching sessions and community events
- Free trial of ChangeabilityPro® for access to more learning materials
- Access your course anytime, anywhere
- Modular, self-paced learning with trackable progress
- Interactive quizzes to check understanding and target revision
- Practical activities with examples to shape your own approach
- Excellent attendee feedback and high pass rate for examinations
- Free access to online group coaching sessions and community events
- Free trial of ChangeabilityPro® for access to more learning materials
Free ChangeabilityPro® Trial with every course purchase
Included with this course, you will also get a FREE Trial of the further learning materials on ChangeabilityPro®
Agile Change Agent Course Overview
This course has 5 key elements that develop your ability to scope, plan, implement and embed new ways of working:
1. Concepts
Together, we will review the concepts that bring together agile principles and change management best practice to enable us to apply an agile approach to our change initiatives.
2. Roadmap
We will develop a roadmap for our change, which is a simple, effective mechanism for defining how and when work will be completed, and benefits will be realised.
3. Business need
In this part of the course we use a range of techniques to identify the benefits for our change, which enables us to prioritise the work and motivate ourselves and others to adopt the change.
4. Relationship building
This is a section all about you. Through games, checklists, and questionnaires you’ll identify how you prefer to work, and consider how others might have a different perspective. Use this knowledge to plot how you engage with others to make change happen.
5. Environment
You are given insight into the latest thinking on the impact of positive psychology, and the steps needed to create an atmosphere that builds empathy with those impacted by change.
About The Agile Change Agent Course
The Agile Change Agent course provides a practical way to scope, plan and manage change initiatives for anyone experiencing change at work. The course is based on the 2nd edition of the successful book “Agile Change Management – a Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.”
By completing the course, you will receive a certification to indicate that you understand how to plan and deliver change using Agile principles of incremental and iterative delivery.
Who is the Agile Change Agent Course For?
The Agile Change Agent course is relevant for anyone who is experiencing or taking part in change at work. We are all responsible for making change happen, and we need practical techniques to do this.
The course increases your ability to monitor and manage change. We understand this could be a whole host of different roles. You’ll find the Agile Change Agent course useful if you work as one of the following:
- Experienced change manager looking to refresh or update your knowledge or skill set.
- Working in a “business as usual” role but have been asked to take part in a change initiative affecting you or your team.
- Working in project, program and portfolio management roles and want to understand how to integrate you work with other changes being made in the business.
- A business analyst or communication expert and want to know how to contribute your skills to making change happen.
- A senior or middle manager wanting to understand how to fulfil their responsibilities.
- An individual looking to build your skill set, venture into new sectors or enhance your CV.
New to Change Management? Choose Agile
With the Agile Change Agent Course, there is no assumption that you have prior knowledge of agile methods or change management techniques. However, if you do have a background in either of these areas, you will be able to see where your existing skills complement what you are learning. This course is all about how to do things, not weighing you down with lots of theoretical knowledge that doesn’t help you do things in the real world. It’s about application and getting the results you need.
The course continually builds your practical ability in planning, implementing, and adopting new ways of working using agile techniques. You will be able to apply these techniques to your own work during and after the course.
Managing People Through Change
As well as the structural techniques for creating the plan and prioritising the work, this course includes techniques for the people side of change. We look at ways to build productive, respectful relationships with those we need to persuade to work differently, using two perspectives:
- Techniques for creating empathy between yourself and those you seek to influence.
- Techniques to build an environment that supports and encourages people as they adapt to new ways of working.
So, if you’re a manager of people in any department and your organisation is experiencing change then this Agile Change Agent Course is for you.
Agile Change Agent Course with Melanie Franklin
Melanie developed the idea for the Agile Change Agent course following the demand for training based on the launch of her first Agile Change Management book in 2013. A book she wrote to provide easy-to-understand techniques for making change happen. The book is published by Kogan Page and sells all over the world along with her other published works.
The feedback from all those who have taken the Agile Change Agent course is that they gain skills in practical techniques. They also gain an understanding of how Agile approaches impact change and why Agile approaches fit with our world of constant, continuous change.
Book your place on the Agile Change Agent course to join likeminded professionals and become part of the change management movement.
