Learn from the experts at the Agile Business Consortium and The Open University

Change is never easy!

Agile organisations have to continually learn to adapt and flex in new environments. This needs teams and individuals who can focus deeply on their own growth and engagement.

On this three-week course, you’ll explore the link between learning organisations and business agility. You’ll find out how continuous learning, a growth mindset, and engaging others can support organisational change and business agility.

You’ll learn about the characteristics and importance of learning organisations, including identifying approaches (such as reflective practice) that can be used to enhance continuous learning.

Discover how business agility requires a growth mindset, effective communication and engagement

You’ll explore how developing a ‘growth mindset’, self-awareness, and a focus on stakeholders helps you support business agility. You’ll also learn how to engage others for agility, familiarising yourself with effective communication and ways to keep people motivated and engaged.

Explore ways to help promote a learning organisation and engage with others for business agility

By the end of the course, you will be able to recognise the characteristics of a learning organisation, how to develop a growth mindset, self-awareness and a stakeholder focus in your learning and personal development, and identify ways to engage with others to create business agility.

What topics will you cover?

Agility in business based on continuous learning
Developing a growth mindset, self-awareness, and a stakeholder focus
Engaging others for agility

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Describe the characteristics of a learning organisation
Explore ways of gaining a growth mindset, self-awareness and a stakeholder focus in your learning and personal development
Identify ways to engage others to create business agility

Who is the course for?

This course is for anyone new to business agility or those with a basic understanding who want to know more. Some workplace and/or team-based experience will help you understand the content of the course in the context of a working organisation (of any size, sector, or industry). It’s particularly suitable for:

Those who want to know how they can develop their own practical business agility for future roles.
Those struggling to understand how to survive and thrive in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world.
Those wishing to broaden their skillset and expand their Continuing Professional Development.

Who will you learn with?

Rod Willis M.Sc. MBA

Rod Willis is a Professional Executive Coach and Business Agility expert. He is an Agile Business Consortium Scrum Master who supports the agile community through conferences, courses and online tools

Who developed the course?

The Open University

As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.

Established
1969
Location
Milton Keynes, UK
World ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020

Agile Business Consortium

The Agile Business Consortium is the global professional body for Business Agility, with unrivalled expertise in the field. A UK based not-for-profit organisation and the brains behind AgilePM®, AgileBA®, AgilePgM® and AgileDS™ - committed to advancing business agility worldwide.

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

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