Certified Agile Leadership II (CAL II)
Advanced course meant to guide leaders in strengthening, applying, and sharing their agile leadership learning.
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Course Description
The Certified Agile Leadership® II (CAL II) is a guided journey deepening your understanding and application of agile leadership principles. The goal of CAL II is to guide leaders in strengthening, applying, and sharing their agile leadership learning. It is advanced leadership education that includes validated practice and peer-based sharing. With an emphasis on applying CAL practices in your own organization, the facilitator provides insight on the approach and results of your experience or project report.
IncrementOne’s interactive classes are designed to maximize engagement, understanding and retention, blending lecture and classroom discussion with exercises, games, case studies and simulations. Whether online or in-person, leaders work together on practices, exploring their own challenges and developing potential solutions for challenges they bring into the class that they can take further after training.
Every course covers the core learning objectives, while leaving room for deeper conversations led by the questions and scenarios leaders bring up in class. The class includes comprehensive case studies focused on applying leadership concepts and techniques. The course is a mix of two days of training and guided coaching and collaboration within your cohort over a six month period.
Key Concepts
- The executive team’s role in creating and sustaining agility and value creation
- Advanced techniques for complexity thinking and how to apply them to your organization
- The design of organizational value streams and identification of opportunities for improving results, governance and organizational flow
- Leadership Agility®360 Assessment to understand your current capabilities in leadership and organizational effectiveness, including the option for more personal Leadership Agility 360 coaching
- The creation of a change roadmap and plan to support your journey towards organizational agility
- Identification and experimenting with organizational metrics that are relevant for your organization
- Discuss agile governance models for product delivery, regulatory compliance and financial governance
- Tools and techniques that support leaders in adapting to personal, situational and social awareness
- Understanding organizational structure and patterns to scale agile practices across multiple teams
- Use of case studies that show how agile leadership concepts and practices have been applied in real-world scenarios
Agenda
Leadership in an Agile Context
- LeadershipAgility® 360 Assessment
- Decision-making models to empower the organization
- Leadership styles and alignment to type of organizational work
The Agile Organization
- Organizational value streams
- The Product Office
- Big room planning
- Organizational metrics
Agile Approaches to Change
- Deep dive into Cynefin and other complexity models
- Advanced Organizational Change Models
- Agility and outsourcing models
Validated Practice
- Four facilitated remote sessions including advanced education topics
- Validated practice through cohort and educator collaboration
Peer Workshop
- Practice report
- Facilitated peer-based workshops
Prerequisites
- CAL I, CAL Essentials for Teams (CAL–E/T) or CAL Essentials for Organizations (CAL–E/O) certification
- Experience in a leadership role
- Set up of a Zoom and Mural account as per details provided in the registration email (virtual classes only)
- Complete the preparatory reading/viewing included in the pre-course email
Prerequisites for the CAL II designation
- Hold an active CAL I, CAL Essentials for Teams (CAL–E/T) or CAL Essentials for Organizations (CAL–E/O) certification from Scrum Alliance
- Ability to attend four out of six virtual sessions at 2-3 hours per session over a 6-month period after the 2 day course
- Attendance at facilitated peer workshop
- Presentation of your experience or project report at the facilitated workshop
NOTE
- You may take CAL II any time, as long as you have previously completed CAL I, CAL E/T or CAL E/O
Who it's for
- Executives and leaders wishing to advance their agile leadership capabilities and get hands-on application of concepts through practice and experience reports
- Coaches and leaders driving change initiatives and wanting to expand the frameworks available for sustaining and deepening organizational change
- Leaders wishing to pursue their CAL II designation
Benefits
- Course qualifies you for 21 Professional Development Units (PDUs) and 21 Scrum Education Units (SEUs)
- Registration includes two years of Scrum Alliance membership
- Alumni of the CAL course qualify for access to our coaching support platform, including community forums and additional education aids and templates
- Pre-and post-course emails with recommended readings and videos
- Digital copy of the workbook and in-class artifacts
Career Path
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A-CSM with Dave is a beautiful opportunity to bring your scrum knowledge to another level. With a group of other experienced scrum masters, you have the opportunity to talk about the wicked topics that you always wanted to get insights/answers on that are real-world related.
Complete Certified Agile Leadership training with Increment One. Wow! My brain is full, I learned so much. I have been taught many new ideas and practice approaches can ways to approach leadership in an agile or new-to-agile environment. Thanks for the excellent learning experience.
