Level Up is a popular panel Q&A show presented by APMG International. The show provides an opportunity to have your real life questions answered, after which the episode’s focus topic is addressed by a chosen expert panelist. The Level Up shows are interactive allowing viewers to ask the panel questions on how to build your career, what to learn, how to implement new ideas, and what to do when things go wrong!
APMG International presented Episode 69 of the popular Level Up panel Q&A show titled:
Level up your Career – How to become an Agile Change Agent.
The show was hosted by Nick Houlton with Question Master, Charlotte Miller. The expert panelists were: Etienne Shardlow, senior consultant, at Symphonise Consulting; Johann Botha, digital change provocateur and CEO at getITright; Bikram Routray, independent training consultant; Dierk Söllner, solopreneur; and Alejandro Debenedet.
In this episode the panel answered the following questions:
- Where should the Agile Change Agent be located in the organisational hierarchy, more to the Top or Bottom?
- Most employees are experiencing change fatigue. What can I do to ensure success of agile change initiatives in this environment?
- Do you have any book or resource recommendations to help me become an Agile Change Agent?
- How can we continue to engage stakeholders in a change initiative, even when it is being implemented rapidly?
- How does one become an Agile Change Agent, is there any Agile knowledge needed to be an Agile Change Agent?
- What is the significant difference between Agile Coach and Change Agent?
- How do you improve your own agility as an agile change agent?
- What does it mean to be an ‘agent’ of change?
- How do we build the resilience to focus on real positive change over being dogmatic on agile rules/principles?
Etienne Shardlow our CEO and lead trainer for AgilePM and Scrum Master qualifications took part in this live-streamed panel. Watch the discussion here:
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