The best way to thrive in the midst of a disruption is to be the one to cause the disruption.  The second-best way is to be agile enough to anticipate and respond effectively to the change.

Being agile is not just a popular software development process.  Being agile in your workplace is all about optimizing your results.  If you are slow to adapt to changes in what your customer values or shifts in your industry (or in this case, the world economy), you become less relevant and vulnerable to these external forces.  Bottom line: Only agile businesses will thrive in these turbulent times.  And an agile business requires an agile workforce.

Here is Mark David Jones overviewing agility in the following video:

Ask Yourself:

  • Does it seem to take too long to respond to shifts in your workplace?
  • Does your team respond quickly and effectively when something doesn’t work?
  • Are your customers ever frustrated by how long it takes to adjust their product/service?
  • Are your employees ever frustrated by how long it takes to adjust to their requests?
  • Are all your employees fully engaged in optimizing your organization’s potential?
  • Is your workforce fully anticipatory of changes in your customer needs? In your industry?
  • How does your workforce react to change – with excitement or anxiety?
  • Does your team have an established and effective process for pivoting efforts?

If your workplace isn’t energized by constantly changing circumstances, then they either don’t understand the value of the opportunity or they don’t have the process or tools to be confident of success.  World Class Benchmarking has worked with legendary organizations who have successfully modeled an agile culture for many years – and can share their “behind-the-scenes” tools to thriving in difficult times like these.

Leaders, here are topics that will pave your opportunity to create greater agility in your organization.

Why Change Drives Agility. We look at how change continues to happen and why its best response is agility

Defining Agility We look at what agility is and is not.

Why Agility Matters. We look at the many advantages of agility and what can be gained by it.

Five Keys. There are five standards that define organizations that are agile. We deepen our understanding of the following

  1. Responsive
  2. Flexible
  3. Streamlined
  4. Expert
  5. Resourceful

Four Tools. Through Human Resources, technology, processes and the very products & services you offer, you can resource your organization to be nimble moving forward.

Ready! The bias for deliberate action, positioning the organization to act in a timely and effective manner.  This is enabled by a culture that detects and assesses major trends and environmental changes. It manifests itself as a culture that is ready to be “80% and Go!”

Roll! The organizational ability to effectively use all resources and capabilities available, in ways that are tailored to the circumstances at hand and execute – even as those circumstances are evolving in real time. This is about nimble implementation. It’s about a coordinated tactical plan to navigate the map.

Review! Stop, drop back, and look at where you are going. Are you going in the right direction? If not, make course adjustment, and then roll again. How do you achieve this rapid iteration as quickly as possible in real time?

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