Tight Loose Tight fundamentals
Course dates: 12.4.2023 09:00-17:00 and 13.4.2023 09:00 -16:00
The course includes lunch both days and dinner the 12.4.2023 from 17:30
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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 Norwegian, with one module presented in english. All discussions will be in Norwegian.
Your trainers
Tight Loose Tight is more than just a tool. We see it as a holistic approach that involves a certain mindset and values. By starting to use Tight Loose Tight you might come to a point where you face inner or outer struggles. Don't worry: That is normal. That is why we combine our fields of expertise to be the most helpful guides on your learning journey.
Rune Ulvnes has started to work with agile concepts in the beginning of the 2000s. Feeling that something was missing, he has started to develop his own agile concept. After having successfully transformed teams by using this concept, he found a name: Tight Loose Tight. Since 2010 he has been teaching his concept all over Norway. It is now used in enterprises such as Telenor, in public organizations such as NAV and even by the Norwegian church.
Rune lives in Oslo and in his spare time he loves skiing in the Norwegian mountains.
Reinert Kamøy is an expert when it comes to psychological safety, team dynamics and conflict solutions. Having a B.Sc. in computer engineering and having worked with agile teams, he is also holding an M.Sc. in conflict mediation and has been helping plenty of teams in the past years. His varied experience includes management, leadership, team and organizational development in both small and large private as well as public organizations. Dialogue and relationship are his most important tools as a teacher, coach and mediator and when building psychological safety.
Reinert lives in Oslo. In his spare time he loves dancing, sailing, kitesurfing, being with family and friends or just binging TV-series (he saw all 8 seasons of Game of Thrones in one month).
As a former IT project manager, Susanne Ringen has first-hand experience with failing waterfall projects. After having been a Director of HR of a Berlin based digital agency, she has worked as a Systemic Coach, trainer and consultant since 2016. Her focus lies on leadership and organizational design, as well as supporting individuals and teams in times of change. In her work, she combines systems theory with mindfulness: looking at systems from a holistic angle but never forgetting the individual. In her spare time she enjoys time with surfing, windsurfing, skiing or knitting. She lives in Berlin and Norway.
References
"In NAV, we have been working on rigging product-oriented development for a few years and are constantly gaining experience that brings us further forward. A basic component of this is the use of cross functional teams and a flexible way of working. As inspiration for this, we have taken theory as well as practice, and the concept of "tight-loose-tight" has been central when we have built our framework. What is more natural than to borrow Rune Ulvnes to share his expertise?
As director of product areas in NAV, I have a "team PO" that focuses on sharing experience, developing new roles and competence matrices for new career paths, and other change work. In the first half of 2022, we have had Rune as a permanent team member. Rune has given us a valuable contribution with his insight and expertise and has shared his experience in a number of forums at several levels in the organization. Rune enjoys great respect among us at NAV, and he also has a demeanor and way of working that make him very pleasant to work with."
With best regards
Ola Furu
Director Product Areas at NAV
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"The National Archives has had both lectures, one-on-one conversations and workshops with Rune Ulvnes about tight-loose-tight. As our entire management team gained insight into the concept and the way of thinking, TLT has established itself as a concept and has become a part of everyday speech with us. We continue to develop as an agile organization and benefit greatly from using tight-loose-tight as a perspective and method."
Nina Dudek,
Senior advisor staff for strategy and management at the
Norwegian Archives
