Management Forum with Jon Ward
Key to the Agile Enterprise Transformation: Catalytic Leaders
In this post-pandemic digital era, the small are no longer being taken over by the large; instead the slow are being absorbed by those who can act fast! What’s involved in fostering and leading an organization that can pivot fast, respond to challenges, innovate continuously … an organization where both people and the enterprise can flourish? In this session, Agile Transformation expert Jon Ward will demonstrate that the answer is in leadership and the culture they cultivate.
True leaders empower; they enable the organization to function by setting strategy, monitoring success, and applying corporate governance; they solve problems and remove roadblocks. They replace commands with questions. We call these leaders catalytic leaders.
Catalytic leadership involves personal change. To be a catalytic leader, you need to rethink the way you operate and engage employees. You need to radically reform past practices to create enterprise agility. You need to spend more time coaching and recognizing team members. You must create a culture where information is freely shared, concerns are fearlessly raised, and the workforce is empowered to make decisions and drive impact, A clarity of strategy is required to engage the collective energy of the organization.
In this session, Jon Ward, who has successfully guided many large, global organizations on this journey, will draw on lessons from Agile’s focus on the power of teams to help you understand that to achieve enterprise agility you’ll have to shake off many of your executive comfort blankets and tread new paths. Ward will share his insights and candid observations about what works and what doesn’t when trying to transform culture to create and lead the enterprise of the future. You’ll discover:
- The difference between management and leadership.
- Why moving from metrics-based management to outcome-based management is crucial,
- How restructuring organizational models can increase talent velocity — the agility to swiftly staff teams from any and every part of the organization without impacting career paths or remuneration plans.
- How to pivot from old ways of working to new.
Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Jon Ward focuses on the cultural and transformational aspects of implementing Agile, introducing appropriate Agile ways of working to enable organizations to achieve their strategic goals.