Business Agility Foundations: Engaging Others

Learn from the experts at the Agile Business Consortium and The Open University

Change is never easy!

Agile organisations have to continually learn to adapt and flex in new environments. This needs teams and individuals who can focus deeply on their own growth and engagement.

On this three-week course, you’ll explore the link between learning organisations and business agility. You’ll find out how continuous learning, a growth mindset, and engaging others can support organisational change and business agility.

You’ll learn about the characteristics and importance of learning organisations, including identifying approaches (such as reflective practice) that can be used to enhance continuous learning.

Discover how business agility requires a growth mindset, effective communication and engagement

You’ll explore how developing a ‘growth mindset’, self-awareness, and a focus on stakeholders helps you support business agility. You’ll also learn how to engage others for agility, familiarising yourself with effective communication and ways to keep people motivated and engaged.

Explore ways to help promote a learning organisation and engage with others for business agility

By the end of the course, you will be able to recognise the characteristics of a learning organisation, how to develop a growth mindset, self-awareness and a stakeholder focus in your learning and personal development, and identify ways to engage with others to create business agility.

This course is for anyone new to business agility or those with a basic understanding who want to know more. Some workplace and/or team-based experience will help you understand the content of the course in the context of a working organisation (of any size, sector, or industry). It’s particularly suitable for:

• Those who want to know how they can develop their own practical business agility for future roles.
• Those struggling to understand how to survive and thrive in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world.
• Those wishing to broaden their skillset and expand their Continuing Professional Development.

• Learning organisations for continuous improvement
• Welcome to the course
• Introducing learning organisations
• Learning together
• Rounding up
• A growth mindset
• Welcome to Week 2
• Developing a growth mindset
• Developing self-awareness
• Focusing on stakeholders
• Rounding up
• Engaging others
• Welcome to Week 3
• Creating engagement
• Good communication
• Facing change
• Rounding up