The Management 3.0 2-day Course is a workshop, a course, a book and a collection of concrete practices, to inspire team members and managers to transform their teams and organisations to be more innovative and highly productive.
Over the two days of the course, participants will experience theory and practice in small chunks, reflect on inspiring stories, work through fun games and exercises and focused group discussions. The goal of the course is to inspire participants and provide them with tools to take action to improve their teams and organisation.
Topics covered
Agile Management is the generic term for leadership and governance of creative teams in a way that is consistent with lean agile thinking. You will become acquainted with the common methods and challenges of agile management in transformations around the world, and the necessity of good management in an agile organisation.
Complexity Thinking lays the foundation for the following Management 3.0 themes. It explains why traditional linear thinking is not appropriate in today’s world and why it should be replaced by thinking in complex adaptive systems.
Energise People explores the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, the ten intrinsic desires and common techniques to explore what is important to people in your teams.
Empower Teams illustrates stories on self-organisation and how managers can create the conditions for successful, self-organized teams. You will learn how to create empowerment and autonomy, distribute effective authorization and decision-making in the organisation and grow relationships based on trust. Concrete practices discussed include delegation poker and delegation boards.
Align Constraints revolves around setting goals and a sense of purpose that channels self-organisation in the desired direction. You will learn when to manage and when to lead, the criteria to set inspiring goals and the challenges of management by objectives.
Develop Competence explains how and when to apply the seven approaches of competence development to grow high performing teams. Measuring competence in complex adaptive environments, as well as recruitment best practices, are discussed.
Grow Structure illustrates how organisational structures can be catalysts or barriers to growth. This session helps the manager to develop the best organisational structure to facilitate communication and to find the best mix of teams between specialisation and generalisation.
Change Management gives valuable suggestions on how we can drive continuous improvement of the organisation as a change agent. Four facets of change management are illustrated and practised to help the participants become change agents in a complex environment.
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The course will be hosted at IQ Business in Johannesburg.