When we discuss organizational change today, we are no longer talking about “pulling ourselves together, changing, and fixing things once and for all.” The environment has never changed as quickly as it does now: business models, customer expectations, technologies, geopolitical shocks, and much more. In these conditions, classic change management is no longer enough. Organizations need something different—something beyond adaptability and beyond flexibility.
They need a new capability: the ability to monitor changes in the environment actively and respond in a way that allows the organization to benefit from them. That capability is organizational agility.
Agility includes two broad groups of capabilities: sensing and responding. Sensing means proactively monitoring what is happening in the environment and analyzing what it means for us. Responding means acting quickly, in a coordinated way, and in a manner that allows the organization to benefit from the change. To become agile,* an organization needs the right competencies, practices, infrastructure, and mindset.
This is where we can help. We have developed a focused Organizational Agility Program for managers who want to strengthen agile capabilities in themselves, their people, and their organizations. The program covers:
✔️ Assessing your own agile capabilities and those of your team
✔️ Understanding an agile workforce
✔️ The psychological contract: how expectations of people change in an agile organization and how to renegotiate them
✔️ How the managerial role and leadership behaviors change
✔️ Leadership strategies for developing agile capabilities in the team
✔️ Building the organization’s agile capabilities
✔️ Increasing readiness for a specific change
The program can be adapted and expanded to reflect the specific challenges and objectives of each company we work with.
* This does not refer to Agile Project Management, but to the organization’s overall agility: its ability to monitor and analyze the environment and respond in a way that allows it to benefit from change. Agile Project Management may form part of an agile organization’s toolkit, but it is not required.
