CAL - Certified Agile Leadership 1

Highly successful organisations have leaders at every level who operate with radically different mindsets and behaviours. This course will provide a platform for you to evolve your leadership capabilities to build a more resilient, adaptable, empowering, creative and innovative culture.

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Highly successful organisations have leaders at every level who operate with radically different mindsets and behaviours. This course will provide a platform for you to evolve your leadership capabilities to build a more resilient, adaptable, empowering, creative and innovative culture.

Actionable and practical leadership mechanisms are a focus to ensure that you will be able to make an immediate positive impact.

This course brings together a diverse set of modern leadership research and concepts and wraps them in a cohesive learning experience. 

Here are a few examples of leadership thinking included in our course: 

  • The Principles and Mechanisms of Intent-Based Leadership from David Marquet (author of Turn the Ship Around and Leadership is Language).
  • Psychological Safety from Amy Edmondson (author of The Fearless Organization).
  • Lean Thinking from Toyota
  • Cynefin from Dave Snowden
  • Richard Hackman, Stephen Bungay, Dan Pink, Jez Humble

What topics will be covered?

  • Context for Agile Leadership
  • Aspects of an “Agile Leader”
  • Leader Mindset
  • Psychological Safety
  • Authority and Information
  • Alignment and Autonomy
  • Engaging and Motivating People
  • Tuning Control based on Competence and Clarity
  • Fix the Environment
  • Culture
  • Leadership Awareness and Behaviours
  • Organisation and Team Structures
  • High-Performance Teams Agile at Scale
  • Leading Lasting Change

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

We recommend you have a (re)read through the latest Scrum Guide, written by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland the co-creators of Scrum. The Scrum Alliance also has a nice overview of Scrum which might serve as a refresher.

From a Leadership perspective, although not compulsory you might want to consider reading some of the following books prior to the sessions:

  • Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet
  • Leadership is Language by David Marquet
  • The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson
  • Lean Enterprise by Jez Humble et al

What about exams and certification?

In addition to the practical benefits, this course will provide you with an industry-recognised Agile leadership accreditation, incorporating all three foundational Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership certifications CAL-E, CAL-T and CAL-O. There is no exam

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