Agile Change Agent Course

Virtual Classroom

The Agile Change Agent course is based upon the successful book 'Agile Change Management' – a practical framework for successful change planning and implementation.

There are two versions of the Agile Change Agent course - a virtual classroom instructor-led event delivered over two consecutive days or a self-paced e-learning course equating to 20 hours of training.

Scope, plan and manage agile change initiatives

Agile Change Agent Course - Key Takeaways

By completing the Agile Change Agent Course, you will:

  • Create your own agile roadmap.
  • Identify the benefits of change relevant to your business. 
  • Build a road map of your stakeholders. 
  • Learn techniques to engage stakeholders in participating in your change culture. 

How will the certified Agile Change Agent Course develop my career?

Agile and change are two of the most in-demand skills to develop. All organisations are undertaking high volumes of change and need people who understand how to move themselves and others to new ways of working. 

The Agile Change Agent Course covers the structural side of planning a change initiative, along with aspects of emotional intelligence. These skills help us work collaboratively with all those impacted. It delivers 21st-century leadership skills, whatever your role or level of experience. 

It has been designed to bridge the gap between the formal theories, models and techniques in Change Management and Agile Project Management. It provides a follow-on course for those with the qualifications and an entry point for those who need the capability but haven’t studied the subjects in depth.

Learn with the author and trainer of two best-selling agile change management courses.

The course contents are drawn from my book Agile Change Management, which is a practical guide to planning and delivering change using the Agile principles of incremental and iterative delivery.

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.

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Benefits of the Agile Change Agent course

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. 

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. There are many comments about this on Trustpilot; you can look at them here. 

Who is the Agile Change Agent course for?

The Agile Change Agent course is relevant for anyone who is taking part in change at work. It doesn’t assume you know anything about agile or change management, and it doesn’t require you to be in a leadership position. We are all responsible for making change happen, and we need practical techniques to do this. 

 

The course increases your ability to get this done. People attend who are experienced change managers, people who work in “business as usual” roles but have been asked to take part in a change initiative affecting their team. People in project, program and portfolio management roles attend because they want to understand how to integrate their work with other changes being made in the business. Business analysts and communication experts attend because they want to know how to contribute their skills to making change happen. Senior managers who are asked to sponsor change initiatives attend so they can understand how to fulfil their responsibilities.

 

There is no assumption that you have prior knowledge of agile methods or change management techniques. 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, so I will not weigh you down with lots of theoretical knowledge that is nice to know but doesn’t help you do things in the real world.

Why Choose Melanie?

The Story

Agile approaches are increasingly being adopted by organisations as they recognise the need to respond quickly and easily in a world of complex and continuous change. 

Until recently, APMG courses and qualifications focused on those taking specific responsibility for a project/change initiative. The Agile Change Agent course was launched in 2019 to widen the field. It provided an entry into the world of Agile and Change for all those in the business who are impacted but whose day job continues to be a “business as usual” role. To address the increasing demand for those within organisations to understand agile working and its role in successfully implementing and adopting change.

 

Instrumental in its conception and design, Melanie is the Chief Examiner for the Agile Change Agent course and certification. Having partnered with APMG International, an internationally respected examining body, Melanie is now able to offer it as a global qualification. 

 

Melanie developed the idea for the course following the demand for training based on the launch of her 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.

 

Her 100% success rate comes from her being a champion of change management since its early conceptualisation in the early 1990s. In addition to training, Melanie is currently involved in leading several significant transformations impacting tens of thousands of staff with capital investment in the millions. 

Melanie has been responsible for the successful delivery of Agile transformations, using the concepts and principles of many Agile approaches to create a structure and a culture that delivers an evolving solution and realises early benefits. Builds strong relationships with stakeholders who have not worked in with Agile approaches before, and helps them discover the advantages and overcome the challenges of this way of working.

She is acknowledged as a thought leader in Agile Change Management, through academic research and practical consulting for global organisations as diverse as the United Nations, utility and telecoms, global consultancies, universities and central government functions in Europe and the Middle East.

She is a Chartered Management Consultant, Chief Examiner for the Agile Change Agent certification, was Co-Lead of the Change Management Institute UK and is now the founder of the Continuous Change Community. Melanie is a respected author of many text books and articles on project and change management. Her previous roles include CEO of a consulting and training organisation, Director of Global Transformation Programmes, Global Head of Business Continuity and Crisis Management and Head of Project and Programme Management. She is currently overseeing two major transformations, impacting tens of thousands of staff with capital investment in the millions.

What sets her apart is her practical experience in delivering Agile environments at team and organisational levels and ability to listen to organisational needs, benchmark against both waterfall and alternative project methods then deliver an agile environment that matches client needs.

Agile and change are two of the most in demand areas for develop. All organisations are undertaking high volumes of change and need people who understand how to move themselves and others to new ways of working. This course covers the structural side of planning a change initiative along with aspects of emotional intelligence that help us work collaboratively with all those impacted. It delivers 21st century leadership skills, whatever your role or level of experience. 

This course has 5 key elements that develop your ability to scope, plan, implement and embed new ways of working:

  1. Concepts – 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 prioritize 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 will identify how you prefer to work, using this to consider how others might have a different perspective. Use this knowledge to plot how you engage with others including what information you share, how you share it and what opportunities you give to 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.

The basis of the course is the book Agile Change Management which I wrote to provide easy to understand techniques for making change happen. The book is published by Kogan Page and sells all over the world.

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.  At the end of your course, you will be sent an email containing additional material for you to use in applying what you have learnt. These materials form a toolkit of checklists, questionnaires, articles, videos, and templates so you can get started the moment you finish your course.

If the course is delivered as an instructor led event, it is delivered for two consecutive days, with the Agile Change Agent examination taken at the end of day two. If the course is taken as self-paced e-learning then the course equates to 20 hours of training, which includes the time spent reading additional material and completing all the activities, examples and sample papers. 

You will gain the Agile Change Agent certification. This certification provides evidence that you understand Agile concepts and change management techniques. 

If the course is delivered as an instructor led event, it is delivered for two consecutive days, with the Agile Change Agent examination taken at the end of day two. If the course is taken as self-paced e-learning then the course equates to 20 hours of training, which includes the time spent reading additional material and completing all the activities, examples and sample papers. 

The feedback from all those that have taken the course is that they gain skills in practical techniques as well as understanding how Agile approaches impact change and why Agile approaches fit with our world of constant, continuous change. There are lots of comments about this on Trustpilot so you can have a look at these here https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.agilechangemanagement.co.uk

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