Agile Leadership Strategies for Digital Transformational Change
Dr. Kevin S. Groves Overview:
Successful leadership of digital transformations requires a different set of leadership competencies and skills. Business leaders charged with leading their organization’s digitization efforts must overcome at least three core obstacles or challenges, including strong employee resistance to change, lack of a collaborative culture that supports a ‘fail fast’, iterative approach to change, and underdeveloped or nonexistent change management capabilities. Business leaders can overcome these common challenges through three primary strategies, including (a) adopting a digital leadership competency framework, (b) cultivating a collaborative organizational culture that values agility practices, and (c) developing change management capabilities.
Why you should Attend:
Webinar participants should attend the session to learn leadership and organization development strategies for overcoming the core obstacles to successful digital transformation initiatives. Webinar participants will learn agile leadership competencies, strategies for developing agile organizational practices that facilitate digital transformation initiatives, case applications, and practical tools for leading organizational change.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- The megatrends and leadership implications of digital transformation and the impact on the workforce and leadership needs
- Overview of the economic value of digital transformation, the efficacy of digital transformation efforts, and the primary obstacles faced by business leaders.
- Practical leadership and organization development strategies for overcoming the core obstacles of digital transformation
- Strategies for adopting a digital leadership competency framework for your organization, including how to apply such a framework for leadership assessment, placement, and development purposes.
- Strategies for cultivating collaborative organizational cultures that facilitate digital transformation, including agile learning organization practices
- Agile leadership competencies that support digitization efforts, including collaboration skills, cultivating psychological safety, and empowering others.
- Practical leadership strategies for overcoming employee resistance to digital transformation by focusing on the employee experience of dignity
- Leadership strategies and organizational practices for (a) protecting employees from threats to their dignity and (b) cultivating the experience of employee dignity through work activities that provide meaningfulness, respect, and connections to others
- Tools for assessing employee openness and receptivity to digital transformation initiatives, and corresponding strategies for how leaders can engage employees across the spectrum.
- Case illustrations of organizations with exemplary agility practices for facilitating digital transformation initiatives
- Five key practical leadership strategies for inspiring and engaging teams during digital transformation initiatives
Who Will Benefit:
- HR & Talent Management Professionals (HR Managers, VPs, CHROs, etc.)
- Executive and Management Team Members
- Team Leaders, Supervisors, and other People Leaders
- Board Members and Board Chairs
Speaker Profile
Dr. Kevin S. Groves, Ph.D., is President of Groves Consulting Group, LLC, and Professor of Management at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School. The consultancy supports businesses, non-profit organizations, and public agencies with leadership and organization development solutions, including customized 360-degree assessment tools, leadership development program design and facilitation, succession planning systems, executive team development, strategic planning facilitation, and a range of training solutions. As a Professor of Management at the Graziadio Business School, Dr. Groves teaches a range of doctoral and master’s level courses including executive leadership, organization design and strategic alignment, and organization development and change. An active leadership scholar, Dr. Groves’ recently published book (Winning Strategies: Building a Sustainable Leadership Pipeline through Talent Management & Succession Planning) offers executive teams, boards, consultants, and HR/OD professionals a practical framework and set of succession planning and talent management best practices. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Groves worked as a management consultant in the Strategy & Organization practice at Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson).