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Training & Certification:
Certified Agile Leader® 1
(CAL 1™)
Learn how to think globally and act locally in a persuasive, coherent and impactful way that builds trust in you as someone leading a change to your organisation’s capabilities for changed results.
Create an environment where a new way of working is not just a process change, but rather a multi-faceted change to organisational systems that shifts the culture and results in compounding competitive advantage.
Our CAL 1 covers both:
- the inner game of mindset and behaviour shifts as well as
- the outer game of influencing and shaping organisational systems and culture.
Course Information:
What pre-requisites are there?
There are no accreditation or educational pre-requisites for this course.
Experience with management and leadership challenges (at any level) will be beneficial however.
Who should attend?
Learning from this course is for application by two broad groups:
- Managers and executives, and
- Agile coaches and Scrum Masters.
For managers and executives, this course enables you to make more informed organisational choices. Also to start adopting behaviours that create an environment suitable for agility and continuous improvement.
For Agile coaches and Scrum Masters, this course provides you with techniques to teach and coach your organisation’s leaders on. Also leadership behaviours for you to model in your day-to-day work.
How do I earn CAL 1 certification?
Earning CAL 1 involves 2 steps:
- approximately 2 hours of self-paced learning prior to the training, and
- 16 contact hours of highly interactive training.
There is no formal test or exam involved in earning the CAL 1 certification other than validation of learning objective achievement during the course.
What is included when I register?
All of the following is included.
- 2 days or 4 half days of highly interactive training,
- Active CAL 1 certification with Scrum Alliance* for an initial 2 year term, and
- a copy of all course material.
* for participants who meet the training participation requirements.
Course Information:
- The Case for Agile Leadership
- The business case for Agile leadership
- The economics of agility
- Evolutionary development of people and organisations
- Agile Leadership in action
- Skills of an Agile leader
- The Leadership Agility framework
- Practice balancing coaching with advising
- Influencing techniques
- Leading Agile Teams
- High performing teams
- Team development and its inhibitors
- Techniques for creating high performing teams
- Product Goal Definition
- Working with your organisational culture
- Optimising your organisation systemically
- Aligning organisational systems
- Cross-boundary collaboration and de-scaling
- Leading Change
- Leading with a capability vision
- Working with the psychology of change
- Agile-friendly change management approaches
- Sharing mental models of organisational dynamics
- Self-mastery
- The habit of habit change
- Your leadership growth journey
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Learning Facilitator:
Rowan Bunning
Biography:
In 2008, Rowan founded Adapt WithStyle (formerly Scrum WithStyle) to bring world-class Agile training and independent consulting to south-east Asia. As a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) with not-for-profit Scrum Alliance, Rowan has delivered over 530 certification courses including the full three level Path to Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP®) for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.
Rowan holds a WSQ Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP) from the Singapore Institute for Adult Learning (IAL).
Rowan has played project management roles in the U.K. and Australia. This includes taking a high-profile online business to launch, and safely introducing frequent change to critical infrastructure processing AUD $250 billion worth of financial transactions daily.
Rowan is passionate about developing leaders skilled at developing teams and simplifying their organisations to compete at scale on the basis of agility, innovation and highest customer value.
Accreditations:
Frequently Asked Questions:
Are all CAL 1 courses the same?
No. The Scrum Alliance defines learning objectives that every CAL 1 course is to validate achievement of. CAL Educators are allowed to design their own course material in a way that leverages their strengths and their personal leadership journey.
How does this CAL 1 course compare with the Leading Evolutionary Organisations 1 (LEO1) course with Michael Sahota?
The dominant focus of LEO1 is evolving your inner game such that you evolve your way of thinking and showing up to inspire others to high performance in a more evolved way.
The primary focus of this CAL 1 is the organisational systems and how to change them to create an Agile organisation capable of achieving the results that you need. Personal development also features in a way that is complimentary to LEO1. This includes catalyst conversations that balance coaching with mentoring, influencing skills and self-appraisal.
How does this CAL 1 course compare with the Designing Agile Organisations (DAO) course?
This CAL 1 course is completely aligned with the systems thinking-based approach taken in the DAO course. It is however much broader than DAO and not as deep in organisational design.
The DAO course is an excellent compliment to this course for senior leaders and enterprise coaches interested in designing and establishing the right organisational systems for Agile ways of working to flourish and achieve the intended results effectively.
Is this course specific to Scrum?
No, not at all. It is about organisations that are flexible and highly engaging to work in. This is often known as “business agility”. Approaches for implementing this may include the Kanban method, continuous delivery, LeSS, the Lean Startup and many more. Also approaches custom designed to your context.
Scrum may occasionally be mentioned in passing as one of multiple options or when
Is this course suitable for Agile Coaches?
Yes, very much so. Guiding leaders on new ways of leading is an essential component of new ways of working. To be effective, you need to understand the challenges that leaders face, their mental models, language as well as what the trajectory of development is for the individual’s leadership development. This course explores that.
We also explore big picture thinking tools, organisational models and practical approaches for leading change that effective Agile Coaches guide leaders through learning and leveraging effectively.
If you are an Agile Coach working primarily with development teams, this is an opportunity to start levelling up to work with more senior leaders for higher impact.
Is there an exam?
No, there is no formal exam. We will however be testing your ability to apply key concepts less formally through many discussions, leadership case studies, collaborative modelling exercises, role-plays etc. The learning that this validates goes far beyond knowledge recall to case study analysis, adopting new behaviours and practical application to a realistic scenario.