Abstract: The session would define and detail what is Agility and what is personal Agility. How the mindset of an individual influence personal agility. How remote set-up “supports and acts against” in development of personal agility. How to maximize the support of remote set-up and how to address the challenges of remote set-up in order to improve the personal agility. Key Takeaways: 1. Understand personal agility and it’s the importance 2. How one’s mindset is a key factor to influence the personal agility 3. How the remote set-up promotes and impedes the personal agility 4. How to maximize the remote set-up for personal agility improvement 5. How to turn-around the challenges of remote set-up into our favour towards personal development. How to measure that we are progressing into it

1. Purpose
Incremental
progress
Challenges to
opportunity Embrace
Change
Kaizen
Learning
Health
Openness
JAISANKAR T S
Enterprise Agile Coach
Tata Consulting Services
How to cultivate more personal agility in Remote set-up

2. VUCA is our New Way Of Life
Vulnerability
Uncertainty
Complexity
Ambiguity
• Will my child be productive in remote course?
• This sedentary life cycle reduce my immunity
• Can I complete my objectives as planned?
• Will my job continue?
• When will I be back to office?
• Will my Wifi n/w work today?
• Will I have money to pay EMI next month?
• Will my goals be achieved?
• How will I complete my project remotely?
• Will I get adequate support from my peers if I
work from home?
• Working from my small home might impact the
elderly and children
• Can I complete this course remotely ?
• How do I support my colleagues remotely ?
• Work from home – When will I stop my work for the day ?
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3. Agility
Agility is the art of sensing, adjusting/adapting and responding to change.

4. Types of Agility
Personal Agility
Team Agility
Technical Agility Change Agility
Delivery Agility
Organisation AgilityStrategy Agility
Portfolio Agility Transformation Agility
Mental Agility
Learning Agility
Behaviour Agility
Business Agility
Cultural Agility
Leadership
Agility
Value Agility
Emotional Agility

5. Personal Agility - Why to cultivate
Personal agility: The ability to plan and live a life where we can identify what doesn't serve us and then
make changes internally and in our environment, even when it's challenging or uncomfortable, to
experience success as defined by us.
Piaget’s Cognitive Stages

6. Personal Agility – HOW to cultivate more
Personal
Agility
Purpose
Incremental
progress
Challenges
to
opportunity
Embrace
Change
Openness
Health
Learning
Kaizen
Goal,
Prioritise and
Define Success
Celebrate
Realign and
Sustain
Growth Mindset
Courage and
Optimistic
Acceptance
Flexible and
Value focus
Approach
Approachable and
Relationship
Emotional
balance
Energy and
Ethical
Passion
Practice and
Share
Retrospect/Evolve
Measure and
Perseverance

7. Cultivate #1 – Purpose
Personal
AgilityPurpose
Incremental
progress
Challenges
to
opportunity
Embrace
Change
Openness
Health
Learning
Kaizen
Prioritise
Define
Success
Goal
Goal : What you value as your need to achieve
along with timeline
Prioritise : Based on Urgency and Importance
Define Success : Definition of Done (DOD) for
each aspect of goal
Purpose :

8. Cultivate #2 – Incremental Progress
Personal
Agility
Purpose
Incremental
progress
Challenges
to
opportunity
Embrace
Change
Openness
Health
Learning
Kaizen
Celebrate Realign Sustain
Celebrate : Self motivate with celebrations on every small incremental success
Realign : Analyse every increment whether any alteration is required on the plan
and action towards goal
Sustain: Ensure every item achieved is consistently used and followed. It’s not one
time go.
Tips:
• Timeboxed: Set a timeline for every item to do on daily / weekly basis and
ensure that it’s done
• Validate against the DOD set
• Share the success and knowledge gained through remote sessions and through
blogs
Incremental Progress:

9. Cultivate #3 – Challenges to Opportunity
Personal
Agility
Purpose
Incremental progress
Challenges to
opportunity
Embrace
Change
Openness
Health
Learning
Kaizen
Growth Mindset
Courage
Optimistic
Growth Mindset : Core change required to improve Personal agility is to move away
from fixed mindset to growth mindset.
Courage: The beauty is in change and accepting the same with courage and a smile
Optimistic: Every challenge opens a door way to new opportunities in our favour
Tips:
• Have broadband, power back-up to handle the variance
• Appreciate the travel time saved in remote working
• Try to invest the saved time on learning new things
Challenges to Opportunity:

10. Cultivate #4 – Embrace Change
Personal
Agility
Purpose
Incremental
progress
Challenges
to
opportunity
Embrace
Change
Openness
Health
Learning
Kaizen
Acceptance
Flexible for dynamics
Value focus
Acceptance: Accept that the present moment is real
Flexible for dynamics: See the growth in you while you adapt for the changes
happening around you. This always leads to live in harmony with the reality
Value focus: Any change adoption should not dilute the value aimed to achieve
Example:
My recent Training program - Technical issues and adaptation
Embrace Change:

11. Cultivate #5 – Openness
Personal
Agility
Purpose
Incremental
progress
Challenges
to
opportunity
Embrace
Change Openness
Health
Learning
Kaizen
Relationship
Approach
able
Approach
Approach: Be open to approach others for any suggestions and advise. A small
spark can kindle new innovative ideas
Approachable: Be available for others to approach you. Sharing is the means to
enhance on what we know
Good relationship: is one of the key factors for improving personal agility, as
every success needs many interactions.
Tips:
• Use the remote meetings and stand-ups very effectively; make use of follow-up
calls
• Participate in Guild sessions and share
• Find a remote place at home so that interference are less for the meetings
Openness:

12. Cultivate #6 – Health
Personal
Agility
Purpose
Incremental
progress
Challenges
to
opportunity
Embrace
Change
Openness
Health
Learning
Kaizen
Emotional
balance
Energy
Ethical
Emotional balance: Remote working for long stretch sometimes impact emotional
balance.
Energy: Ensure that right energy food, exercise and good sleep would improve
body immunity
Ethical: Remote working practices should not dilute ethical standards
Tips:
• Take 5 to 10 mins break for every 1 hr work
• Have a quick fresh air walk min 3 to 4 times a day for 10 mins
• Balanced diet and hydration to keep fit
• Have demarcation of office time and personal time
• Connect to nature
Health:

13. Cultivate #7 – Learning
Personal
Agility
Purpose
Incremental
progress
Challenges
to
opportunity
Embrace
Change
Openness
Health
Learning
Kaizen
• Passion • Practice • Share
Tips:
• Remote working saves travel time – which can be consciously devoted to
learning new items
• Opportunity to get certified into new technology areas
• Set learning milestones to complete
Learning:

14. Cultivate #8 – Kaizen
Personal
Agility
Purpose
Incremental
progress
Challenges
to
opportunity
Embrace
Change
Openness
Health
Learning
Kaizen
Retrospect/E
volve
Measure
Perseverance
Retrospect/Evolve: Retrospect and learn from failures; Evolve progressively as
personal agility is a journey
Measure: Periodic measures and lead/lagging indicators would help us to make
corrections on our journey towards personal agility
Perseverance: Let’s try all options till we achieve
Tips:
• Retrospect daily/ weekly / monthly on the increments towards goals
• Self introspection and cause analysis would help corner the issues to correct
• Have tangible measures to assess the progress
• The positive trend towards growth is an indication of our personal agility
Kaizen:

15. Thank you