CAL - Certified Agile Leadership

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