(CAL 2™) CERTIFIED AGILE LEADER® 2

In CAL 2, you'll continue to make connections between the defining capabilities, behaviors, and practices of agile leadership and how you can enable rapid adaptation, customer focus, and responsiveness to change across an organization.

You'll learn about:

Organizational structure and design

- The benefits and challenges of different organizational structures and designs

- How these structures impact your organization's performance and strategy

- How to inspect organizational structure and make recommendations for its transformation

Value and metrics

- Learn about techniques you can leverage to deliver end-to-end value to customers

- Inspect how your current organizational structure supports or obstructs value delivery

Leadership competencies

- Focus on your personal leadership development so you can empower people, improve team dynamics, and achieve organizational outcomes

 Understand how to deliver more value to customers, execute organizational strategy, and lead people and teams toward desired outcomes with agile leadership skills.

In order to receive your CAL 2 certification, you must first complete CAL 1.

• Organizational Decision Makers & Change Leaders. Put yourself ahead of the agile learning curve and discover the joy of taking an active role in sustainable business agility. This course helps you embrace the agile values, practices, and metrics that drive agile decision making. Take the struggle out of transforming company culture by learning to embody a mindset of transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
• Executives. Finding the time to nurture your own agility and discovering a meaningful role to play in an agile transformation is challenging. You desire to be more than just someone who authorizes hiring a consultant or coach. Certified Agile Leadership certification can quickly accelerate your learning curve and show you the active role you could play in a sustainable agile transformation. You’ll also discover a personal transformation as you learn about your own internal leadership development.
• Managers. One of your challenges may be overcoming internal resistance to organization-wide agility. Certified Agile Leadership gives you practical tools to bolster your growth into agile practitioner and leader, and helps you nurture yourself and senior management champions to solidify your efforts.
• Agile Team Members/Aspiring Agilists.Everyone on an agile team is a leader — self-directed, self-organizing teams get more meaningful work done. To truly practice agility, learn what agile leaders do differently to prepare their teams to pivot powerfully in this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.
• Coaches/Consultants.Your challenge is to help clients navigate an agile transformation with a focus on the people and mindsets necessary to shift the culture. A CAL 1 certification provides you the tools to help enact change and distinguishes you in the field as someone who has acquired the defined knowledge of an agile leader.
• The Leader in You … in All of Us. Finding out more about your personal leadership style can enlighten you and help you be more empathetic to everyone you encounter. This program can enhance both your career and your personal life.

What will you learn in Certified Agile Leader® 2 (CAL 2™)?

Vision/Mission/Values

• List three common challenges leaders face today related to organizational strategy & delivery and explore their underlying causes.
• Explore the distinctions between control and influence impact on leadership behaviors.
• Discuss the influence of vision, mission, and values on organizational performance.
• Explain how organizational culture emerges from the organization's vision, missions, and values.

Organizational Strategy

• Examine how organizational strategy contributes to fostering agility within an organization.
• Examine the role of at least three structural constructs for execution of organizational strategy.

Organizational Structure and Design

• Evaluate two organizational design principles and how it impacts the structure beyond individual teams to promote autonomy and collaboration within the workforce.
• Explain how your organizational structure and design positively or negatively impact its strategy, vision, mission, values, and culture.
• Propose changes to your organizational structure based on current challenges and potential benefits.
• Identify team structures that would reduce dependencies within an organization.

Value & Metrics

• Discuss at least one approach or technique to improve delivering value to customers end-to-end across an organization.
• Analyze three examples of how your organization's structure either facilitates or hinders the delivery of value.
• Outline at least three common organizational practices that foster continuous improvement and support organizational change.
• Compare appropriate and inappropriate uses of metrics and its impact on organizational agility.
• Practice two examples of how to use appropriate metrics for different levels of the organizational value system.

Change Management

• Outline what change management is and explore common misconceptions associated with it.
• Recognize the importance of leadership alignment on an overall change management approach.
• Summarize three approaches that a leader can use to support organizational change management or continuous improvement efforts.
• Explore the core aspects of at least one change management approach and how these align (or not) to your organization’s current change approach.

Leadership Competencies

• Develop a personalized leadership approach focused on continual learning, collaborative working relationships, team growth, and evolving challenges.
• Identify at least three common obstacles and challenges that leaders encounter in their personal development, and two strategies to overcome them.

People Management

• Identify at least three challenges commonly encountered when developing and managing people.

Delegation & Decision Making

• Explore a delegation model and its associated principles of accountability for the team and leader development.
• Explore two decision making models and how they support the shift from being an expert-centric leader to a collaborative leader.

Feedback

• Explore at least two feedback models to effectively deliver and receive feedback.

Conflict Management

• Discuss how to use a conflict model to resolve conflicts and promote positive outcomes that foster cohesive team dynamics within organizations.

Difficult Conversations

• Explore the effectiveness of at least two communication strategies to use when conducting difficult conversations.

Influencing

• Describe how to use an influencing model to develop effective strategies that guide others toward desired organizational outcomes, given your organizational situation or circumstances.

Take CAL 2 so you can:

• Understand how mission, vision, and values impact organizational success and empower teams to deliver results
• Understand how leadership culture impacts success and the ability to achieve goals
• Learn how to design team and organizational structures to execute strategy
• Understand change management and how it is critical to transformation
• Take your leadership skills to the next level in any role

This course will provide you with relevant, applicable knowledge and a professional certification from a globally recognized agile organization. Scrum Alliance certifications are among the most requested in agile job descriptions and will open the door to discussing your qualifications and skill set in job interviews.

The"Skills in the New World of Work" report found that 55% of organizations say they will pay more for candidates with relevant certifications. And 77% of hiring managers ranked the importance of certifications as a 3 or higher on a 1-5 scale. Don't miss this chance to stand out as an agile leader prepared to support your organization's ability to reach its goals and outperform the competition.