Certified Agile Leader® 2 (CAL 2™)

Agile leadership emphasizes adaptability and responsiveness to change in a dynamic business environment. The ability for leaders to adapt quickly is crucial, and and this course can equip you with the skills to navigate uncertainties effectively.

If you want to maximize your impact on an organization's success, this is the certification for you.

In this course we will focus on the two critical components:

Organizational Strategy and Delivery

• Understanding mission, vision, and values, and how they can impact success both positively and negatively
• Identifying how strategy impacts your organization's agility and its ability to thrive amid constantly changing conditions
• How a company's structure can impact customer value delivery
• Understanding change management and related misconceptions
• Tools needed to lead organizations through change initiatives

Developing as a Leader

• Overcome common obstacles to personal growth
• Develop your personalized leadership approach
• Communicate strategies during difficult conversations
• Deliver and receive feedback
• Understand challenges leaders face when managing people and approaches to overcoming those challenges
• Discover how collaborative leaders handle delegation and decision-making
• Presented by experienced trainers with a wealth of lived experience, this course offers transformative leadership knowledge, equipping you with the skills and insights you need to inspire teams, drive organizational change, and achieve sustainable success in an ever-evolving global market.

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.

• 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

• 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.

Meet Your Instructors

Anu is the President and Founder of Capala Consulting Group, LLC where she specializes in Executive coaching and Agile Transformations. She is also an Enterprise Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer® - providing education and coaching, consulting services to clients across the United States. An IT professional with over 25 years of industry experience, Anu holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from Osmania University in India and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Anu has extensive experience with large scale agile transformations, integral to the success of the likes of Capital One through her training and coaching expertise. She has specialized in leadership coaching and large group facilitation. Anu has established internal agile coaching Centers of Excellence for several clients to allow self-sustained coaching of their agile transformations. She has developed a coaching program specifically designed for evolving organizational leaders. Anu speaks frequently at conferences both nationally and internationally on Agile Leadership, Product Ownership, Coaching, and Group Facilitation Techniques.

Anu is passionate about coaching and training others, dedicated to helping to achieve professional and personal success. She has also committed to improving the agile community through several activities. She is an active member of the larger Scrum and Agile community and enjoys giving back via volunteering at various conferences.

Kate Megaw is the Founder and CEO of ARCLight Agile where she specializes in working with organizations on their #JourneytoAgility. She helps teams on their journey to empowerment and collaboration, to achieve faster decision making and therefore a focus on customers and their rapidly changing needs. Kate works with leaders throughout the organization, regardless of department, to create a more agile approach to leadership that encourages innovation, flexibility, and empowered teams, allowing organizations to achieve their purpose.

Kate is a dynamic Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified Team Coach (CTC), with over 20 years working in Education, Operations, Project Management, IT, and Consulting.

With her finely honed communication and presentation abilities, complemented by strong planning, organizational and people management skills, Kate is a popular speaker at events. She is a motivator and encourager and is happiest when she breaks through to a client and leads them to the ‘aha’ moment.

Before moving to the United States, Kate received her bachelor’s degree in Information Management from the Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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