Leadership might feel like a struggle between guiding employees, keeping your customers happy and understanding your competitors. At the same time you must solve the challenges that may arise, whether it is high electricity prices, new government regulations or an epidemic.
Trust-based leadership, also named agile, is the essence of the leadership revolution that tries to help leaders to handle the rising complexity of modern business without loosing control. Many leaders are today letting go of detailed control, but do not know how to inspire or learn from the efforts of their employees. This is the reason we developed the Tight-Loose-Tight model that is inspiring leaders to make a change.
Unfortunately, the course landscape is dominated by American developed courses and educations. CoWork is therefore proud to present this Norwegian-developed course, which is based on managerial experiences from Norwegian businesses. Central to the curriculum is how to set inspiring goals, learning to trust your colleagues, and learn to give feedback that increases the performance of your team and your business. Tight Loose Tight is used by an increasing number of companies such as NAV, Telenor, the National Archives, Statens Pensjonskasse and many more, and this course might allow you to understand this model better.
In collaboration with the Norwegian/German leadership coach Susanne Ringen, Rune Ulvnes and Reinert Kamøy have developed a two-day introduction to trust-based leadership. Here you get the opportunity to combine theory with exercises. Completing the course allows you to participate in our certification program Tight Loose Tight practitioner starting for the second time in the fall of 2023.
Requirements for course participants
We believe it is an advantage that you have experience or interest in management and feel that existing management tools are not sufficient. There is no requirement that you have worked with agile or trust-based before, but we hope you are motivated to learn some new principles that can challenge your existing mindset.
The course is designed for managers regardless of your professional background. You may therefore meet other course participants from many subject areas, such as HR, communication, technology, teaching, health, finance and strategy.
Tight Loose Tight in the media
"Adopting trust-based leadership involves training Telenor's management teams around the world in what the company calls tight, loose, tight". Sigve Brekke, CEO Telenor in this article from the World Economic Forum
How to start with Tight Loose Tight, article written by Rune Ulvnes.
"The new organizations are not as structured and hierarchical as the ones we grew up with. Managers lead via strategic delegation, often with a tight-loose-tight pattern, where they give clear tasks with a focus on achieved results, not process. They allow the employees to deliver with a lot of autonomy, and then have clear handover and approval processes at the end.” CEO Silvija Seres in this article in leader news.
Content and fee
The course will be held at Mesh Nationaltheatret in Oslo the 12th and 13th of April. The course is divided between theory, exercises and discussions. During the two days we will cover:
Brief history of leadership from the beginning to the agile movement
The two mindsets of business. How to combine innovation and operation
The theory of Tight Loose Tight
How to set the first tight
How to let go during loose
How to give feedback in the second tight
Business agility and how to close the gap between strategy and operations in an agile business.
Fee: 17 500 NOK excluding VAT
Lunch both days and dinner the 12th of April is included in the course fee.
The course will be held in English, but the group discussions can be held in the participants native language.