Agile means different things to different people. It also matters what environment you're applying agile to. To start off with, let's look at some different definitions of Agile leadership:
Agile is based on the principles of teamwork, autonomy, and alignment. The ability of teams to act autonomously spurs both ownership and creativity, enabling them to make quick decisions and move fast. This combination of ownership and decision making at speed also accelerates the development of talent on the teams, which enables faster and even more effective decision making. But a high degree of autonomy works only when there is also a high degree of alignment in and among the teams.
One key role of agile leaders is to set and maintain strong alignment around overall company purpose, strategy, and priorities. Leaders need to communicate their intent, explaining both the what and the why. Then comes the hard part: leaders need to let go—and do so visibly—thereby releasing the teams to figure out how to address their assigned challenges. The more alignment that leaders are able to establish, the more autonomy they can afford to give, and the more they can and should let go.
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2019/courage-to-be-agile-leader
True Agile LeadersTM are inclusive, democratic leaders who exhibit a greater openness to ideas and innovations. With a passion for learning, a focus on developing people, and a strong ability to define and communicate a desired vision, they possess all of the tools necessary to successfully inspire others and become an agent for change within any organization.
https://centerforagileleadership.com/what-is-agile-leadership/
While there are a number of traits that a successful agile leader should have, two of the most important are flexibility and adaptability. Agile ways of working move from the traditional hierarchical roles between teams and managers to a flatter organization.
https://blog.planview.com/become-the-agile-leader-your-organization-needs/
As you can see from the above ideas, Agility has many aspects. Experienced leaders might recognize leadership traits they've learned in other courses, theories or concepts. Agile is part of an organizational movement in which power is moved away from leaders towards teams. One of the most important traits of a modern leader is to 'let go', while keeping people accountable for outcomes. Another trait is a focus on short iterations to execute, away from long term planning. This is based on an ever changing environment to which we must adapt.
In this course, we want to equip you with many different perspectives of agility. We provide you with clear behaviors that will help you become a stronger agile leader. We also look into frameworks for innovation and digital transformation. And we give you the basic knowledge required to understand what happens on the team level (without going in depth).
Keep in mind that true behavior change is challenging. An executive agile coach can support your personal transformation.