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Embracing Agility: Transforming Yourself at 'Light-Speed' to Effectively Manage Today's Rapidly-Changing Expectations

Duration:
90 Minutes
Access:
6 months
Webinar Id:
700923
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$113. One Participant

Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)

Overview:

Leadership success depends on agile development and your ability to be future oriented, seize external opportunities and bounce back from unforeseen changes-particularly with market uncertainty at record-breaking levels. You must not only have a strategic plan but you must capitalize on market trends and anticipate and respond to change more rapidly.

This webinar will help you achieve agile development, lead with greater foresight and entrepreneurial thinking and expose you to the behaviors and processes associated with agile people and organizations. You'll learn how to understand and explore customer and marketplace opportunities and capitalize on them by responding with appropriate products, services and initiatives.

Why should you attend: By attending, you will understand how to even more effectively
  • Understand how agile organizations differ from fragile organizations
  • Keep your competitive edge by anticipating and adapting to change
  • Identify rapid response mechanisms to environmental shifts
  • Be recognized as a "change agent" and engage and empower employees to implement your vision
  • Establish compelling communication strategies to drive change in your team and align your organization
Would you like to deepen your understanding of what constitutes an "agile" organization, and how you can develop yours to be agile?
Are you interested in further improving your competitive edge?
Would you like to be recognized as the premier "change agent" in your organization?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through those important topics, key questions and answers we all need to be able to address effectively to improve our team members' and team's performance

Areas Covered in the Session:
  • Understanding strategic agility and why it's crucial for today's organizations
  • Identifying the competencies needed to lead with agility and resilience
  • Utilizing the Leadership Agility Profile™ self-assessment to determine your agility score
  • Aligning people, processes and technology with the AGILE Model™ and learning to put it into action
  • Developing the right team with skills to communicate and implementing strategy as it evolves
  • Creating a culture that promotes action and resourcefulness
  • Engaging in a constant "outside the box" search for new and better ideas
  • Initiating and maintaining a performance scorecard with balanced key metrics, including company, team and customer measures

Who Will Benefit:
  • CEO
  • Senior Vice President
  • Vice President
  • Executive Director
  • Managing Director
  • Regional Vice President
  • Area Supervisor
  • Manager
Instructor:

Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.

He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.

He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.

He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.

Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.

He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.

Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.


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