About Us
Agility Consulting and Training,
LLC is a leading management consulting firm that specializes in helping
global leaders and organizations build adaptive capability to anticipate
change and respond appropriately to the increasing turbulence and
uncertainty in our world. Our principals and network of consultants
bring valuable depth of expertise, experience and insight to helping
clients become more focused, fast and flexible at the enterprise, team and
individual leader levels.
Why Agility?
| The global business
environment has shifted into an era where the Agile Imperative has
become a survival statement and where best practices must yield to
next practices as we discover how to effectively adapt and thrive in
this real-time, fast-paced and ever-changing world. Agility is
defined
as an organization's on-going ability to anticipate, adapt to and
react decisively to events in its operating environment. |
A:
Anticipate Change
G: Generate Confidence
I: Initiate Action
L: Liberate Thinking
E: Evaluate Results
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Recent studies from The American Management Association, McKinsey
& Company, Accenture, The Conference Board and others have each
highlighted the perspective of global CEO's that the AGILE IMPERATIVE,
i.e. the urgent need to become more adaptive and nimble to our
changing world, has become their #1 or #2 overall strategic priority!
The
Agile Model® provides a roadmap helps organizations and leaders
navigate through these turbulent waters. The Agile Model® is
built from best practices in organizational performance and is
endorsed by the American Management Association (AMA) as well as
recognized as the "best leadership model for our changing
world" in the 2008 new book called HR Transformation. The
five drivers of an adaptive, agile individual, team or organization
embodies in the model include the ability and processes to anticipate
change, generate confidence, initiate action, liberate thinking and
evaluate results. Each of these drivers must exist within all
three enterprise domains, i.e. people, processes and technology, in
order to create and sustain an agile enterprise.
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bias towards the status quo is an unaffordable luxury.
Tomorrow’s leaders will need to be less controlling; more
emotionally astute; culturally attuned; and most important, willing to
share authority and decision making.
Today, the idea of a leader introducing a change program sounds
hopelessly artificial, the organizational equivalent of a computer
add-on.
Instead of a “program,” change today is intrinsic to
business and leadership, a fundamental expression of how AGILE
businesses, teams and leaders operate.
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Most organizations are comprised of people
who have a tendency to resist change or settle into patterns of behavior we call "psychosclerosis,"
hardening of the attitudes and behaviors about change. The common capability
that organizations
are attempting to achieve and sustain is AGILITY. |
