Agile Leadership and Resilient Teams (Udemy.com)
Building teams and organizations that thrive during change and stay resilient under stress
Created by: Michael Papanek
Last updated May 2025
What you will learn
- The ultimate guide to building high performance teams as an agile leader
- Define agile leadership and assess your team's resilience
- Express how heat within teams can lead to breakthrough and how to foster the right kind of heat as an agile leader
- Develop strong, flexible, and fair business relationships
- Use your team meetings to create an agile team culture
- Respond to change and uncertainty with resilient leadership
How it compares
Against the other 133 rated Udemy courses in Agile & Scrum on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 59% of them
- Reviews8,622#23 of 134 by number of reviews
- Length1.4 hoursshorter than 84% of them
- Last updatedMay 2025earlier than 56% of them
Course Description
Team members in today's growth organizations need more than technical or operational management from their leader. Today's top performers want an agile team culture where they can thrive during times of high stress and rapid change, and a leader they can trust and respect even when times are hard. The best teams use conflict for innovation and creative solutions and can leverage diverse points of view and act together as a collaborative team.
Your instructor, Michael Papanek, has advised leaders at top global companies like Apple, Google, VMWare, Cisco, Kaiser, Clorox and Verizon, and has built the course on their best practices for Agile Leadership.
In this course you will master the tools used by Agile Leaders for making decisions, resolving conflict and building team relationships, so you can create a team that overcomes any change or challenge that comes your way.
This course will make you a master of the interpersonal skills you need now to inspire your team to achieve high performance, and break through any internal or external barriers to realizing your full potential - as an individual and as a group. As an Agile leader you will discover the tools and strategies you need to address the root causes of performance issues so they are no longer pulling your team down.
In this course you'll learn:
What Agile Leadership is and how to assess your team's agility and resilience
How the right kind of "heat" on your team will lead to breakthrough
How to build strong, flexible, and fair business relationships
How to change your team culture by changing team meetings
How to be a resilient leader in times of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity
I've included lots of exercises, free access to my online team assessment, downloadable tools and links to additional resources so you can put your new skills into practice and execute your personal action plan for becoming an Agile Leader.
If you're ready to take charge and become an Agile Leader, then enroll today!
CPE (Continuing Professional Education)
Learning Objectives
Define agile leadership and explain the key benefits and attributes of an agile team.
Assess your own team's resilience.
Identify, discuss and change team dynamics to create more resilience on your own teams.
Explain the heat curve framework and why it is important.
Explain how undiscussable issues keep a team from performing well and list examples of undiscussable issues.
Describe how to define and improve the strength of a business relationship.
List strategies for improving the strength of a business relationship.
Explain how to use a simple tool (issues, positions, interests) to work through a conflict and demonstrate more flexibility.
List the components of fairness and trust (the trust formula) and describe ways to increase levels of trust.
Describe a process for making decisions that will increase the perception of fairness.
Describe different kinds of meetings and identify an optimally effective approach to meetings.
List some best practices for improving meetings and thereby improving culture.
Define the VUCA environment in which agile leaders work.
List some key strategies that agile leaders use to respond in difficult (VUCA) times.
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Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
8,622 Reviews
Michael Papanek
Visionary Business Leader & Executive Coach: Since 1992, Michael has been a driving force in leadership development, executive coaching, and organizational change consulting. With a relentless passion for excellence, he empowers leaders and teams to build resilient, high-performing, growth organizations that thrive amid change and innovation.
Expertise in Driving Enterprise Success: Michael is a master of talent development, leveraging it as the ultimate catalyst for sustainable enterprise performance. His unparalleled depth and breadth of experience enables him to operate seamlessly at both strategic and operational levels—from the C-Suite to the front lines.
Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, Michael honed his analytical and leadership skills as a systems engineer, project leader, and account executive for General Motors’ IT division. He also led an Agile software product team. This technical foundation equips him with a unique blend of strategic insight and operational expertise.
Trusted Partner to Global Industry Leaders: Michael has been a key partner to some of the world’s most successful organizations, including:
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Reviews
By Budiyanto on 8/24/2026
Sangat cocok bagaimana membangun Tim kuat harus punya flexibilitas dan berkeadilan agar potensi semua tim keluar maksimal untuk mencapai tujuan bersama.
By Michael Steffensen on 5/6/2026
Nice and straightforward. Never heard of VUCA so liked that coverage the most.
By Anonymized User on 4/9/2026
Content is highly relevant to our roles and immediately applicable to day‑to‑day work.
By Anonymized User on 4/9/2026
The Agile Leadership concept which I already experience in our successful team, but, did not have a clear distinction of the concepts of Strong, Flexible and Fair. Good to learn this.
By Anonymized User on 4/7/2026
The course is very useful to make me a master of the interpersonal skills I need, to inspire our team to achieve high performance, and break through any internal or external barriers to realizing our full potential - as an individual and as a group.
By Phillip Yelverton on 4/3/2026
The training was well thought out & provided useful tools to implement in working with my team.
By Gerald Spalti on 3/19/2026
Assessment questions were either “your perfect” or “not” there were no opportunities to answer for any nuance that might exist. I am not going to provide a negative response based on one team member for a team of 9.
By Jeffrey Malloy on 1/27/2026
It was both informative and applicable to my current employment opportunity, so I am glad that I took this training.
By Diane Jones on 1/5/2026
This information should be helpful to everyone. It is relevant in nearly every work interaction.
By Murat Deveci on 12/18/2025
Good lecture (incl. quizzles). A copy of the course for taking notes or recap would be greatly appreciated.
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