Inner Agility: The Key to Business Agility, Episode #2

We are embarking on a transformative journey with Michael Hamman on Inner Agility: The Key to Business Agility on Our Agile Tales. Michael believes in the potential of the workplace as a catalyst for personal, professional, and social transformation. His work with many organizations, teams, and leaders has enabled them to embrace a greater holistic team and enterprise-level agility by nurturing their inner capacity for leadership agility in the face of the complexity, volatility, and uncertainty of the 21st-century world.

In this episode of Our Agile Tales, we delve into nurturing inner leadership agility and explore practical techniques like reframing perspectives, fostering psychological safety, and enhancing conversational practices. The episode further examines deliberate sensemaking, revealing how subconscious beliefs impact behavior and how these practices can boost team dynamics and organizational effectiveness.

00:00 Introduction to Our Agile Tales
01:36 The Challenge of Reframing Perspectives
03:20 Developing Conversational Practices
05:57 The Role of Psychological Safety
07:04 Impact Feedback: A Practical Example
09:56 The Misconception of Psychological Safety
13:16 The Importance of Learnable Skills
15:01 Defining Deliberate Sensemaking
18:23 Introducing Deliberate Sensemaking Practices
24:53 The Impact of Triggers on Actions
25:39 Deliberate Sensemaking in Practice
28:37 Conclusion

Michael Hamman is the author of Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out. The book provides a blueprint for what it means to be an agile leader in today's complex world and offers a practical roadmap for getting there. He is the head of development at Transformation Designs and is a Co-creator at the Centre for Inner Agility.

You can find Michael Hamman on LinkedIn or peruse his work at Vertical Facilitator. 

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