Certified Agile Leader 2 (CAL 2™)

The Certified Agile Leader 2 (CAL 2) course emphasizes developing your agile leadership skills. You will deepen your knowledge of agile leadership through hands-on activities and self-assessment assignments. You will develop a personal action plan to build on your strengths and lead with integrity.

Courage is the only leadership virtue that cannot be faked, and this course will equip you to lead authentically and improve your world of work.

Strategic, Operational, Tactical Leadership

Agility as a concept is the talk of enterprises’ board rooms, but the systems needed to align people, resources, and capabilities to achieve an enterprise’s strategic objectives are lacking. Making the changes necessary to become nimble in a business environment of uncertainty requires agile leadership skills. You know that strategy without execution is just a dream. Join us to discover how you can develop leadership skills to realize your ambitious personal and enterprise goals.

Leadership Excellence

The art of leadership can only be learned on the foundation of authenticity. If you fake it, you will not make it. We have helped managers and agile practitioners in enterprises overcome obstacles to personal growth and develop their personalized leadership style. Excellence is an outcome that can be learned. Let us show you how.

Learn together, grow together

We recommend that leadership teams take this course together to develop a shared understanding of measurement and alignment systems necessary for the continuous improvement change journey ahead. This course explores the dynamics of risk-taking and strategies for influencing systemic organizational change required for leading knowledge workers.

What you’ll learn in CAL 2™

This is the only course that integrates systems thinking and complex thinking practices to enable resilient learning organizations. To develop these skills, you will engage in real-world case scenarios and group challenges.

• Understand how to engage and influence Executive management for enterprise agility.
• How to lead operational and tactical objectives and align with enterprise strategic objectives.
• Effectively lead groups and teams of knowledge workers for measurable impact.
• Learn directional delegation techniques to support the autonomy of empowered agile teams.
• Decision-making protocols and the role of data in influencing policy changes.
• Design resilient change initiatives that incrementally improve organizational capabilities.
• Improve self-awareness of how you perform and what you can do to increase your impact.
• Develop conflict navigation and goal-setting competencies to increase staff engagement.
• Creating empowered agile teams that embrace autonomy to deliver excellence.
• Explore human and systems dynamics to develop your agile leadership style.
• Authentically lead with integrity.

CAL 2 Curriculum

Effective management and leadership are essential for organizational success.

While managers operate existing systems, leaders change these systems to align team and managerial activities and achieve the enterprise’s vision, mission, and values. Influential leaders make a lasting impact on the enterprise’s culture, people, and systems. The ability to lead in times of complexity and fast change is a vital management skill. Join us to find out how.

This course covers topics that meet Scrum Alliance’s CAL-2 learning objectives and goes much beyond the course’s base expectations.

• Strategy and Alignment: Cascade of choices for strategic objectives.
• Nature vs. Nurture: Leading knowledge workers.
• Organizational Design and Structure: Principles and measurement systems.
• Emergence of organization culture: Influencing organizational culture shifts.
• Change Journey: Overcoming change resistance to build organizational resilience.
• Managing Self: Improve the way you perform.
• Managing and Leading others: Improve decision-making and delegation skills.
• Influencing Outcomes: Conflict resolution through challenging situations.

The Online Experience FAQ

Answers to some of the commonly asked questions from our students

• We host our virtual training on Zoom
• We take breaks almost hourly, with a longer lunch break
• Certification fees are included
• A color PDF of the workbook will be provided
• Invitation to private Slack group where past and current participants network
• Complimentary 1:1 personal coaching session with your instructor

Who Should Attend

For leaders who value ongoing personal growth. Participant leaders will develop advanced Lean and Agile leadership competencies and increase their effectiveness in leading knowledge workers in complex and rapidly changing business environments.

Leadership is required at all levels within the organization. This workshop is designed for managers and people who want to guide team and organizational development toward becoming learning systems. Participants come from diverse backgrounds in industry and life experiences. Typically,

• Executives, Directors, and Senior management
• Product, Technical, and Functional managers
• Team leader, Agile Coach, and Scrum Master
• Practice leaders

To qualify for CAL 2™ certification, you must be CAL 1™ certified.

Registration Policies

Transfers

You can transfer to a different date for the same course at no extra charge.

Refunds

• Cancellations more than 2 weeks before the course date receive a full refund.
• Cancellations within 2 weeks of the course date receive a 70% refund.

No show policy

Your fees will be forfeited in case of a no-show.