Agile Leadership Principles and Practices

University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera

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Develop Agile Leadership skills. Master change management, evolve leadership theories, and Agile principles to drive collaboration, empower teams, and lead effectively in dynamic environments. This Agile Leadership Principles course takes you from foundational leadership concepts to advanced agile practices. You’ll explore how modern leadership values collaboration, continuous improvement, and empowering teams. Learn to facilitate self-organizing teams, delegate effectively, and align your team around shared goals. The course covers evolving leadership theories, the difference between leadership and management, and how agile integrates the best of modern leadership practices. Understand key agile roles like Scrum Master and Product Owner to lead projects smoothly and foster a motivated, autonomous team environment. Designed for new and experienced leaders, this course emphasizes developing an agile mindset—embracing transparency, adaptability, and continuous learning. By the end, you’ll be ready to create high-performing teams, improve decision-making, and navigate change with agility. Join now to transform your leadership approach and make a lasting impact in your organization.

Syllabus

Week 1: Evolving Leadership Theories

The first week of this course jumps right into our traditional notions of leadership, defining the concept, the characteristics of a leader, the science of leadership, and the styles that exist today across master and servant models (Primal Leadership, Team Leadership, Situational Leadership, and Transformational Leadership).

Week 2: Agile Leadership Principles

The second week exposes the reasoning behind servant leadership as the optimal approach and how old philosophies and “modern psychology” reinforce the need for leaders to empower teams. Gamification and the power of play are emphasized to ensure optimal contribution and performance across roles on the scaled Agile teams.

Week 3: Empowering the Mind

The third week explores human decision making, its power and its faults in the form of biases, and how we can train ourselves through emotional-social intelligence and mindfulness to go faster by slowing down. Negotiation styles and techniques are also covered requiring self-reflection on how one handles conflict and manages competing, accommodating, avoiding, compromising, and collaborating challenges.

Week 4: Empowering the Team

The final week focuses on putting these lessons into practice with real-world approaches and tools for managing and facilitating decisions, interactions, and environments for optimal team performance.

Course Final

Taught by

John Johnson

Reviews

4.2 rating, based on 15 Class Central reviews

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Anonymous

This course has been a valuable experience that strengthened my knowledge, provided useful tools, and helped me understand how to apply concepts in real situations. The content was clear, practical, and results-oriented. I’m grateful for the opportunity to participate and I’m leaving with ideas I can use right away. Thank you for the learning and for inspiring us to keep asking “why”!
Anonymous

Hi! I loved the course, the grading it's just because the moment it redirects me to this page and asks to complete a control question, all the answers are incorrect... and won't let me complete the course!

I'd really appreciate if somebody could help me because I've finished the course and can't get the certificate...

Thanks in advance!
Anonymous

Un curso excepcional. El contenido es calro, util y aplicable desde el primer día. Cada clase aporto valor reañ, supero mis expectativas.
Anonymous

The course is excellent and provides the insights required to gain agile leadership skills in minimum required time. This has help me gain powerfull insights and am keen in applying this in my operations.
Anonymous

Fue una buena experiencia de aprendizaje de conceptos nuevos.
Me encantaría poder tener visualización de los errores al hacer los exámenes para retomar el contenido y reforzar el conocimiento en forma más explicita e inmediata.
Takeshi Peter Iura

As with all courses taken to date, the instructor's lectures are excellent: Very clear, easy to understand, insightful with real evidence. Course 4 was particularly good for me as it brought together many of the concepts and learnings of the earlier courses into text of the whole Agile methodology and process.
Anonymous

The content and information that is taught in this course is great. The reason I will not give it five stars is because the way that the tests are makes it extremely painful since it does not allow you to see which questions you got wrong, since there is no feedback on the grading, it only shows you a score. Also, the continual attempt to sell you to take the courses at the university is inappropriate. I am now at the end and the frustration level is way higher than most of the other 48 courses I have taken with Coursera.
Anonymous

Es un curso muy interesante. Una excelente herramienta para actualizar e implementar estrategias y puntos de vista.
Ashmita Nowbuth

Great course with well explained concepts on leadership and management. The learning process was seamless and was easy to assimilate.
Anonymous

It would help if it was possible to see which answers of tthose that are submitted are wrong in every test.
Anonymous

estoy muy contento con el curso realizado, los ejemplos y herramientas recibidos me servirán de mucho en el campo laboral y en la gestión de mi equipo
Anonymous

Excellent overview of leadership styles, decision-making processes and building an Agile team. I also found the lesson on the Negotiation Field Guide to be very helpful. I think the reminders on decision bias and mindfulness are good for anyone to consider when in a management role.
Dabirichi Soribe

The learning process was seamless and was easy to assimilate. Opened my eyes to Agile leadership and how it works
Anonymous

The Agile Leadership Principles and Practices course offered by the University of Maryland, College Park through Coursera provides a comprehensive introduction to agile leadership. It effectively covers key principles such as flexibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The course presents practical strategies that can be applied in real-world scenarios, making it highly relevant for both new and experienced leaders. The content is well-structured and delivered in an engaging manner, with clear examples and actionable insights. Overall, this course is a great resource for anyone looking to enhance their leadership skills in an agile environment.
Anonymous

great material on leadership, not just for Agile but for leadership as of today. to the point, great resources as well.