Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Agile Leadership

Developing agile leadership skills by applying change management, social psychology, and agile principles and philosophy in business.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Neuroscience of change
  • Social psychology
  • Change management
  • Becoming a flexible leader
  • Building flexible teams
  • Using agile philosophy and Scrum tools
  • Approach to change in a traditional organization
  • Building resilience to change
  • Applying flexible methods
  • Assessing team and organizational flexibility
  • Identifying opportunities for change
  • Design a comprehensive change map

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Flexible leader
  • Project Manager
  • Change Manager
  • Flexible Team Manager
  • Organizational consultant
  • Social psychology expert
  • Personal or group trainer
  • Human Resources Manager
  • Organizational Development Manager
  • Strategy Manager

Internship – 5-lesson course series

Rapid changes and the classrooms in them have become a fact of our daily lives. The agile method has become popular as a leadership strategy and project management method in dealing with this reality. Developing flexibility is actually a complex challenge.

Critical success factors

  • Neuroscience of change
  • Social psychology
  • Change management

In this specialization, you will learn how to become an agile leader, build agile teams using agile philosophy and Scrum tools, and how to approach transforming a traditional organization into an agile organization.

This specialization will prepare you to build resilience to change within yourself, your team, and your organization, and to implement agile methods when appropriate.

Hands-on Learning Project

Participants will assess themselves, their team, and their organization for resilience by creating a set of baseline assessments. They identify opportunities and design a comprehensive change map at the leader, team, and organization levels.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Agile Leadership: An Introduction to Change

Course 1: Agile Leader Training

  • Duration: 9 hours
  • Rating: 4.8 (1,962 ratings)

What you’ll learn:

  • Describe how and why the change management approach has evolved in the business world.
  • Identify key characteristics of an Agile leader
  • Compare traditional and agile teams
  • Compare and contrast traditional and agile organizations

Course 2: Agile Leader Training

  • Duration: 15 hours
  • Rating: 4.8 (523 ratings)

What you’ll learn:

  • Understanding the neuroscience of change
  • Dismantle fears and identify a way forward
  • Apply tools to build a new frame by reframing and focusing on new situations
  • Understand what positive psychology is and how to use it for personal change purposes

Course 3: Agile Team Development

  • Duration: 8 hours
  • Rating: 4.8 (435 ratings)

What you’ll learn:

  • Guide teams towards resilience to change
  • Assess your team’s level of resilience and agility to change
  • Implement practical tools for building agile teams using Scrum
  • Learn how to be a server-side developer and manage a Scrum team

Course 4: Agile Organization

  • Duration: 9 hours
  • Rating: 4.8 (375 ratings)

What you’ll learn:

  • Understand how to scale agility
  • Develop a working knowledge of seven change management theories

Course 5: Agile Leadership Capstone

  • Duration: 6 hours
  • Rating: 4.9 (391 ratings)

What you’ll learn:

  • Implement concurrent planning methodologies
  • Develop a strategy for personal, team and organizational change
  • Create a plan for change