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so learning agility becomes incredibly
important. We’re talking about micro
learning, and just-in-time learning. How
do we provide bite-sized pieces that
people can self-learn and self-teach?

WE DELIVER CHANGE
DIFFERENTLY, WE LEAD
DIFFERENTLY
We need to deliver change differently.
We need to test and learn, use
human-centred design, roll out small
increments of change and scale them
up. This ultimately means that we have PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS MONTGOMERY, UNSPLASH
a very different way of leading in the
organisation of today. It means that our
superpowers as organisational leaders
have the ability to embrace ambiguity. the numbers one to five. On the left, now, we need a beginner’s mindset
This is part of keeping calm. above the lines, put ‘Weak’ and on the because your assumptions and your
There’s a beautiful quote in Nance right, put ‘Strong’. experience are going to get in the way.
Guilmartin’s The Power of Pause: “I’m If we are truly operating in
not here to make you comfortable SHIFT 1: FROM EXPERT MINDSET unprecedented times, how can we hope
with change, I’m here to help you be TO BEGINNER’S MINDSET to have experience and assumptions
comfortable with discomfort.” The shifts that we’re going to talk that will address those unprecedented
That ability to calm ourselves and about can be difficult, really difficult times? We need to gather as many ideas
calm our workforce will enable us to because, in the past, we recruited as possible. We do this by applying
sit with the discomfort of change that’s and rewarded according to the old a beginner’s mindset to overcome
coming through. It will really create types of mindsets. And when you our biases - questioning everything,
a strategic advantage for us when it grew up in the context of your family suspending judgment, and listening
comes to agility.
unit, at school, in organisations, you properly.
were rewarded for your expertise, If you have children in your family,
THE AGILE MINDSET and for being gifted at what you you will know how possible it is for a
At the Agile Change Leadership do. To be better able to handle the young mind to come up with different
Institute, we like to look at an agile disruptiveness of our environment opportunities. You give a four-year old
mindset. We think that it is important
that these shifts, these five shifts that
leaders need to make really start with
how we think and what’s going on in our
heads. The agile mindset can be defined
as a capability, and I tend to see it as a
strategic capability.
“It demonstrates the ability to
recognise failures and challenges
as opportunities for learning and
improvement, along with resilience to
evolve and adapt.”
What are these five mindset shifts?
I would like you to do an exercise –
you’ll need a piece of paper and a pen PHOTOGRAPH BY SEAN MALONE, UNSPLASH
for this. It’s a test to see where you think
your mindset is. Start by drawing five
horizontal lines on the page. And write

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