Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Training – Essentials, Teams & Organizations – ONLINE

Overview

Is it your challenge to focus on people and mindset within an Agile transition? Is it your most important goal to achieve a culture change? In that case, our Certified Agile Leadership training is just your thing. This certification brings you the tools you need to start the change within your organization and to keep it going.

One of the challenges of management is to handle resistance when going through an Agile transition. How to overcome this resistance and how to make sure that everyone is motivated, engaged and contributing to the transition? Our certified training gives you all the tools and insights to grow from an Agile Practitioner to an Agile Leader. It provides you with the right tools to convince the senior management about the value of an Agile transition.

After participation in the training, you receive your CAL certificate from Scrum Alliance.

Target Audience

• Executives, middle management, and other leaders with organizational influence.
• Leaders who support, lead, or interact with Agile teams.
• Scrum Masters / Agile coaches
• Any leader sponsoring, requesting, or involved with an Agile adoption within their organization

Prerequisite

A good understanding of the Scrum framework is recommended to be able to participate in this course. To participate in the CAL-T and the CAL-O course, it is necessary to have completed the CAL-E course. For more details about the certification process and changes please read our article.

Content

This learning experience is divided into three consecutive and independent courses.

Certified Agile Leadership Essentials (CAL-E)

Today’s leaders are struggling to keep up with rapidly changing market needs and are beginning to understand that the ability to respond and adapt quickly is becoming increasingly important. Now you must change the way you think about your role as a leader, your relationship with your employees, and the culture of your organization.

Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership Essentials courses provide awareness and understanding of the fundamentals of agile leadership. In this class you will discover how Agile leaders think, focus, and behave in the context of Agility. Learning the essential elements of agile leadership prepares you to confidently embark on the journey to leadership development and agile transformation in your organization.

• Working Agreements
• Definition of Management
• Definition of Leadership
• Definition of Agility
• Overview of the #leadershipDancefloor
• Establish a shared context and purpose
• The “Being” of the leader
• Enable new Options
• Conscious leadership styles and actions

Certified Agile Leadership for Teams (CAL-T)

Agile teams require an alternative to traditional business leadership approaches to navigate this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. This course teaches you how to build high performing, committed, mature and trustworthy teams. In addition to promoting a culture of transparency, inspection and adaptation to allow experimentation and continuous learning within these teams. The goal of this course is to raise awareness of the new workplace context and provide leaders with the practices they need to lead their teams in agility territory.

• Build Teams
• Leadership for Self-Organization
• Install the Mindset and Agile team values
• Relationships and conversations in a team
• Build commitment, impeccability, and compliance
• The #leadershipDancefloor in team leadership

Certified Agile Leadership for Organizations (CAL-O)

To transform an organization and acquire the necessary market adaptability capabilities in today’s business context, leaders need to change the way they interpret and act on organizational processes, structure, and culture. In addition, these organizational leaders need to become agents of change. In this module, participants will gain knowledge, skills and techniques that will help them work towards sustainable agility in their organizations.

The objective of this course is to raise awareness of the practices and principles of agility and how they apply to Business / Organizational Agility. Through the analysis of case studies and with the support of different models, the participants will obtain clarity on how to make Agility work at the service of the organization and its objectives.

• Context of Agility in the organization
• Business Agility
• Articulate the purpose of Agility in the organization
• Influence Organizational Culture
• Design and build organizational structures
• Align Processes and Objectives
• Analysis of case studies

Each of these courses has a duration of 8 hours, of which 6 hours correspond to live training. Prior to the start of each course, participants are required to complete 2-3 hours of video and reading with the intention of generating context for the beginning of the training.

Misc.

• Digital handouts (English) will be provided for the participants.
• PMP certified participants are eligible to 1 PDU point per training hours as defined in the PMP Handbook on page 42, Category B.
• Please note that it is mandatory to participate during the entire duration of the training, this condition is strictly required for the Scrum Alliance certification.
• The online tool used for this training is Zoom. We’ll send a unique link for each participant before the training and provide the necessary technical information at least 24 hours before the training starts. The precondition for participation and receiving the link is that the training fee arrives at least 2 days prior to the training. 
• Precondition for participation is a camera-enabled connection and internet.