Agile Leadership is a leadership style where the leader values the need to adapt to constantly changing conditions, with the ability to embrace new effective behaviors based on new requirements and the challenges of a chaotic, even volatile marketplace driving a magnitude of change, with the potential to confound by it daunting complexity and uncertainty.
Agile leaders (“We need Learning Leaders who have the ability to stay flexible, grow from mistakes, and handle a magnitude and diverse range of challenges.”)
- Agile leaders possess the ability to sense an organization’s needs for major change and responds to opportunities or obstacles through planning, swift execution without loosing momentum or alignment.
- Agile leadership is inclusive, democratic, and exhibit a greater openness to ideas and innovations. With a passion for learning, a focus on developing people, and a strong ability to define and communicate.
- The core of the Agile leadership style’s intent is not just surviving in the midst of chaos but quickly adapt and create a new future through demonstrating imaginative and insightful leadership when the status quo is challenged.
Competencies Demonstrated:
- Sustains profits — Seeking profitability and personal wealth with a keen sense of risk in order to achieve financial success.
- Seeks Innovation — Thinking expansively and demonstrating intense imaginative insight to identify wise but innovative solutions.
- Embraces Change — Being responsive and open-minded in unpredictable times with a willingness to adapt to rapid change.
- Thrives In Chaos — Enthusiastically thriving under seemingly a chaotic demand and overlapping priorities. Displaying a preference for multi-tasking.
- Focus on Results — Making personal sacrifices and expending extraordinary dedication and work ethic for one’s career.
- Drives Achievement — Desiring to achieve exceptional results under competitive scenarios for high ambition’s sake.