Certified Agile Leader® 2 (CAL 2™)

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The Complete Agile Leadership Series

Build on your CAL 1 understanding of why agile leadership is necessary in today’s organization.

The Certified Agile Leader 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.

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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.

The training was very engaging, full of real-world examples and hands-on demo. Dhaval is an expert in the subject and knows how to convey the message through use his lecture, literature and white-boarding the ideas. The traning provided be a good foundation and has helped me guide and coach teams in the transformation to Agile/DevOps.

Mukesh Dhannawat

Software Engineering Leader

Dhaval Panchal

Dhaval Panchal

Founder

Experienced executive, Organization Design consultant, and Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach and Trainer (CEC, CTC, and CST), since 2008. He has been practicing agile since 2003 and helped build multiple agile organizations from the ground up.

He has led large-scale transformations at Fortune 500 companies, and mid-size Product Companies. Dhaval has first-hand experience with transformation challenges in Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, and Medical domains.

He is also a member elected Scrum Alliance Board of Director for 2024-2026 term.

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.

Affable and engaging, Dhaval is a wise sage of Scrum and Agile principles. He’s also readily able to cite real-world examples of how it works in business.

William L Gray

Vice President of Product Management

CAL 2™ Course Curriculum

Featured Case Study

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His vision on how to proceed was clear and well communicated so that people at all levels in the company could understand it and move forward. Dhaval brought a wealth of experience to the table, and his well planned and interesting lessons coupled with his oft’ humorous delivery were quite effective. I hope to have the opportunity to work with Dhaval again.

Samantha de la Vega

Sr. Scrum Master

Certified Agile Leader 2 (CAL 2)

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.

        Pre-Work Assignments

        Your leadership journey starts as soon as you sign up for the course. You will complete self-assessment surveys to learn about your leadership preferences. Pre-work assignments help you prepare for the course to develop your authentic leadership style.

        
You will start on your leadership workbook, which will become your compass for developing your leadership skills.

        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. 

        Does it matter where you learn from?

        Absolutely does.

        ScrumAlliance accredited courses are uniquely designed by each Guide level educator against a common framework of course learning objectives. This means that no two CAL courses offered by Guide level instructors are the same.

        Designed for accelerated adult learning, our course makes challenging topics easy to grasp. Our instructors are active practitioners who have the practical know-how that you need to lead in the real world.

        Bring this course in-house

        Customize focused learning sessions designed for your organization’s specific needs. References are provided upon request.

        The Online Experience FAQ

        Answers to some of the commonly asked questions from our students

        • We host our virtual training on Zoom. Please install the Zoom client on your computer.
        • For online collaboration, we use Mural. Participants are provided with a free guest account for the course days. Please confirm that you can access the website from your network.
        • We take breaks almost hourly, with a more extended 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

        Public Course Registration Policies

        Transfers

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

        Refunds

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

        No show policy

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