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Course Schedule

Classroom Sessions:

Date	Venue	Fees
18 - 29 Aug 2025	London - UK	$11,900
08 - 19 Dec 2025	London - UK	$11,900
19 - 30 Jan 2026	London - UK	$11,900
23 Feb - 06 Mar 2026	Dubai - UAE	$11,900

Course Description

INTRODUCTION

As the world changes at a dizzying pace, organizations must swiftly navigate and be highly adaptive by creatively manipulating these changes as an opportunity to transform and radically improve, rather than simply getting through. Strategizing, developing organizations and solving problems innovatively in an agile way is a key part of business agility. However, organization agility is not a straightforward achievement. Agile businesses also need an agile strategy including an agile approach to their market.

This Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability training course is designed to help organizations become more adaptive, creative and resilient. Delegates will explore and master the elements required to make any organization truly agile. This GLOMACS 10-day training course is a two-part training course that focuses precisely on developing agile practices towards organizational excellence and sustainability.

MODULES

This training course is split into two modules:

MODULE I - Agile Business Strategy and Organisational Development for Sustainable Growth

MODULE II - Agile Creativity

Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.

Objectives

At the end of this Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability training course, you will learn to:

Assess organizational strategic contexts and their impacts on strategies and growth
Apply contemporary organizational development strategies to enhance relevancy
Create and implement an agile organization by developing agile teams and engaging key stakeholders
Apply design thinking to creatively solve complex, cross-functional problems in teams
Grasp the advantages of design thinking applications to develop the culture of innovative, user-centric problem-solving approaches

Training Methodology

The highly interactive and engaging Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability training course will utilize a variety of adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This will include highly interactive group and individual activities, targeted case studies, relevant practical exercises, and videos. This will be facilitated learning through direct input, discussion, and encouragement to test and critically appraise theories, models and concepts.

Organisational Impact

By attending this GLOMACS training course and applying the principles involved, your organization will benefit from:

Future-oriented, forward thinking and agile leaders
Gaining more strategically OD focused personnel for organizational growth
Creating pro-active strategies and tactical plans
Creative and innovative employees with effective and efficient problem-solving and decision-making skills
Having a high-performance organization with a high-trust culture of openness, integrity and certainty
Stronger working relationships, greater collaboration and discretionary effort

Personal Impact

By attending this Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability training course and applying the principles involved, you will benefit by:

Gain knowledge of strategic organizational development and skills desirable in today’s modern rapid environment
Acquisition of new business and leadership skills, both strategic and tactical to increase the overall productivity of your team or department
Enhanced business confidence and acumen for organizational and personal growth
Improved creativity and innovation in your thought process
Acceleration of your own personal and career development
Enhanced focus on more important strategic and operational matters

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This highly interactive 10-day course on Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability is suitable to a wide range of strategy, business, and leadership professionals but will greatly benefit:

Strategy and Business Directors
Business Leaders
Senior Managers involved in Business Development
Managers in the Business and Strategy functions
Personnel in the technical/engineering disciplines

Course Outline

Module 1: Agile Business Strategy and Organisational Development for Sustainable Growth

DAY 1

Organisation Business Strategy for an Agile World

Key strategy and models and concepts
Defining agile strategy: Its roots in Kaizen
The importance of tactical and operational planning
Managing direct and rapid change
Creating the ‘hazy’ vision in uncertain times
Developing an agile strategy

DAY 2

Agile Organisational Development (OD) Strategy

Defining Organisational Development (OD)
The importance of OD in organisational success
Workforce planning: Ensuring capability
Talent and succession planning: The lifeblood for success
Creating the agile organisation
OD strategy case study: Lessons learnt

DAY 3

Building the Organisation Team Structure

Understanding agile team dynamics
Factors in creating agile teams
Team roles: Profile assessment
Operating with a virtual/remote team
Team performance measures: Self-motivating teams
Developing a team culture

DAY 4

Tactical Operations: Quick, Rapid Decision-Making

Responsive tactical reviews and SCRUM methods
Conditions needed for daily briefings
Conducting agile meetings
Rapid decision-making tools and techniques
Asking the right questions for multiple operational goals
Ensuring actions are implemented

DAY 5

Communicating the Agile Plan

Lessons learnt from history: Agile implementation
Principles of business communication
Developing a communication plan
Engaging key stakeholders and delivering your message
Embedding agile into the organisation
Summary work and next steps

Module 2: Agile Creativity

DAY 6

Design Thinking and its Importance in Workplace Solutions

Understanding Design Thinking and its Strategic Implications
The 5 Primary Stages of Design Thinking
The Key 10 Principles of Good Design
Traditional Linear Problem-solving Techniques
The Solution Focused Approached to Problem Solving
Bigger Picture Consequences: Systems Thinking and Application

DAY 7

Developing Agile Creativity and An Innovative Mind

Defining a Problem
How your brain solves problems?
Creative Problem-solving Techniques
The Power of Visualization: Dreaming the Dream
Developing an Innovative and Creative Mindset
Group Thinking Strategies and Control
Change and Agile Organizational Thinking

DAY 8

Human Centric Behavioural Skills for Agile Creative Design Thinking

Human Centric Interpersonal Skills Needed in Design Thinking
Powerful Questioning Techniques to Build Empathetic Understanding
Structuring Empathetic Fact-finding Interviews
Creating Powerful Problem Statements to Define the Problem
Structured Brainstorming Solutions using SCAMPER

DAY 9

Practical Applications of Design Thinking and Creative Innovations

Empathize
Define
Ideate
Prototype
Test

DAY 10

Decision Making and Organizational Implementation

Practical vs. Ideal Solution: Factors and Considerations
Using Rapid Decision-making Process
Mitigating Decision-making Errors
Changing Mindsets to Adopt Design Thinking Strategies
Communicating the Decision – Gaining buy-in
Next Steps

Certificates

On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates
Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) : In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsor, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance

Providers and Associations

Endorsed Education Provider

GLOMACS is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org

In Association With

Oxford Management Centre

A GLOMACS - Oxford Management Centre collaboration aimed at providing the best training services and benefits to our valued clients.

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The Energy Training Centre

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An Interactive 10-Day Training Course

Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability

Mastery of Design Thinking, Creativity and Business Agility