Learn what changes when you lead an Agile team — why creating the conditions for a team to succeed beats directing every decision, and how enabling, coaching and obstacle-removal replace command-and-control. Build a self-assessment that shows you which of your own behaviours to change first.
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What you'll learn
- Contrast Agile leadership behaviours — enabling, coaching and removing obstacles — with traditional command-and-control management
- Explain why creating the conditions for a team to succeed outperforms directing every decision on complex IT work
- Distinguish directive actions from enabling actions across everyday leadership situations
- Diagnose a team whose autonomy is being undermined and decide which leader behaviours to change first
- Produce an Agile Leadership Behaviour Self-Assessment that tracks your own directive-versus-enabling balance
Syllabus
Why Agile Leadership, and What It Really Is
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Leadership as creating the conditions for success
Directive versus Enabling Behaviours
The behaviour contrast — directing versus enabling
The leadership behaviour self-assessment explained
Applying Agile Leadership to Real IT Work
Leading a self-managing IT team in practice
Case study — the manager who assigns every task
Making Agile Leadership Stick
Building your Agile Leadership Behaviour Self-Assessment
Common traps and how to avoid fake empowerment