The Open University
- Start Date: 09 May, 2022
- 3 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Explore the elements that make up an agile culture and the culture change that’s needed to enable business agility.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Understand how culture is key in creating an agile organisation
“If we do not manage culture, it will manage us, and we may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening,” Edgar Schein.
We all have values, beliefs and behaviours that shape who we are and how we interact with each other and the outside world. In a business agility culture, uncertainty can be handled more efficiently by a team that is naturally more adaptable, flexible, and innovative. But what are the elements of an agile culture, and how do we assess an organisation’s competencies in these elements?
Appreciate the need for a culture change to enable business agility
On this three-week course, you’ll be introduced to the elements that make up an agile culture. You’ll learn about the impact of culture in the workplace, often described as ‘the way we do things around here’.
You’ll learn about the DNA of an agile culture and how to assess the current culture in an organisation you know well. You will be able to identify areas of strength and weakness across the seven agile culture DNA elements, which will help you to understand and respond to the culture of an organisation.
Learn to reflect on organisational culture with experts in the field
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to identify key elements that influence culture in an organisation you know well. Using a culture assessment tool to inform your understanding of an organisation, you’ll be able to interpret results from the tool to reflect on possible actions.
This course, designed by specialists at The Open University and the Agile Business Consortium, will introduce you to the elements that make up an agile culture and help you consider a culture change that’s needed to enable business agility.
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.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
The Open University
The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK and a world leader in flexible distance learning.
Since it began in 1969, the OU has taught more than 1.8 million students and has almost 220,000 current students, including more than 15,000 overseas. The Open University is rated one of the best in the UK for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey. The OU is one of only four UK universities to have consistently achieved more than 90% in the survey’s history. Over 70% of students are in full-time or part-time employment, and four out of five FTSE 100 companies have sponsored staff to take OU courses.
The UK’s latest Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF 2014) places The Open University in the top third of UK higher education institutions by ‘research power’ ranking. 72% of OU research submitted was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent.
Regarded as Britain’s major e-learning institution, the OU is a world leader in developing technology to increase access to education on a global scale. Its vast ‘open content portfolio’ includes free study units on OpenLearn, which has had more than 26.7 million visits, and materials on iTunes U, which has recorded more than 60 million downloads. The OU has a 41 year partnership with the BBC which has moved from late-night lectures in the 1970s to prime-time programmes such as Frozen Planet, Bang Goes the Theory, James May’s Big Ideas and The Money Programme.
All Open University Science courses presented on FutureLearn are produced with the kind support of Dangoor Education.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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