Innovation and Agility – Experience and Enable

Design Thinking has become an industry standard for a dynamic, human-centered innovation culture in companies. A state-of-the-art leadership and mindset are crucial for staying on top in offering solutions and services for your stakeholders. It is also key to tackling internal challenges such as agile transformation. Leadership beyond the bounds of the organizational structures and the knowledge of how and where to steer – even in uncertain times – makes leaders and their organizations successful. 

Goals

• You will learn agile methods and experience agile teamwork in order to gain a better understanding of the work of your innovation team.
• In a further step, you learn to develop strategies so as a manager you can promote innovation and agility in the team in the best possible way. 

The foundation is the experience of Design Thinking based on a real topic. In small teams, the participants experience both the added value of user interviews and quick prototype construction. We use this experience to reflect on the Design Thinking mindset and transfer it to the everyday life of a manager. In a further step, we examine four concrete practices of agile managers in detail. 

Benefits

Managers themselves experience agile teamwork in order to find concrete starting points as to how they, as managers, can best support their teams in innovation work. In this way, the transformation of the organization can be steered toward more innovation and agility. On the one hand, this comes from the employees who learn and implement agile methods. On the other hand, it is from the executives, who with a newly gained understanding, enable and motivate their employees in an even better way.