Agile Leadership EssentialsTraining (CAL-E/O/T)

Course Details

• Key Features of this Certified Agile Leadership Essentials Training:
• After-course instructor coaching benefit
• Certification following Instructor registering attendee with SA
• CAL-Essentials - Learning Objective – Global Challenge
• 1.1 Describe at least three emerging global challenges and how each makes our world more complex, unpredictable and/or volatile.
• 1.2 Explain at least three challenges that traditional management approaches are facing in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) world, and why a new leadership approach is needed to
• Learning Objective - Complexity and Uncertainty
• 1.3 Illustrate how a healthy agile approach supports the complexity and uncertainty of work.
• Learning Objective - Management Trends
• 1.4 Identify at least two management trends and their historical fit with the business environments of their time.
• 1.5 Discuss the qualities and characteristics organizations need to develop to be able to face today’s world and market challenges.
• 1.6 Describe at least two benefits of becoming a more effective leader.
• 2.1 Describe at least three key mindset shifts required to effectively lead in conditions of high volatility and uncertainty, which are supportive of the agile values and principles.
• 2.2 Explain the importance of having a structured leadership development approach that supports leadership capability development.
• 2.3 Explain how an effective leadership approach should support improving interactions with others.
• Given that leadership behaviors and interactions are related to the cultural context within which they happen, explain the importance of becoming aware of the culture and how leadership attitude can i
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• Learning Objective - Self Awareness
• 3.1 Identify three focal points of self-awareness and explain how increased self-awareness is the key to better self-management. This improves situational adaptiveness and leadership effectiveness.
• Learning Objective - Situational Awareness
• 3.2 Explain and demonstrate how an effective leadership approach should be flexible and adaptive to different situations, while being aware of the underlying cultural context.
• Learning Objective - Social Awareness
• 3.3 Describe how increased social awareness, as the awareness of the impact that behaviors have on the people around us, can significantly improve our effectiveness when working with others.
• Learning Objective - Growth Mindset
• 4.1 Explain why having a growth mindset for both personal and professional growth is a critical part of effective leadership and give an example of how you (will) show a growth mindset in your leaders
• Learning Objective - Incorporating Feedback
• 4.2 Apply at least one technique for incorporating feedback that improves your ability to inspect and adapt your own leadership behavior to increase effectiveness. This approach should be compatible w
• Learning Objective - Respectful Conversations
• 5.1 Practice a dialog approach that can be used to coach, provide feedback, resolve conflict, and work through difficult challenges by integrating alternative perspectives and engaging others to impro
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• Learning Objective - Engaging without Micromanaging
• 5.2 Practice at least two scenarios where evaluating whether to use power or influence would cause different techniques to be used to be present, aware and engaged, while avoiding over-influence and m
• CAL-Organizations
• Learning Objective - Organizational Culture
• 1.1 Discuss at least five ways that organizational culture impacts agility in navigating challenges in today’s business environment.
• Learning Objective - Culture and Leadership
• 1.2 Discuss the relationship between culture and leadership mindset and behaviors.
• Learning Objective - Agility and Value
• 1.3 Discuss various interpretations of the term “value” and how agility impacts value creation.
• Learning Objective - Culture and Outcomes
• 1.4 Explain how culture and the way value is interpreted are related, and how that relationship will affect organizational outcomes.
• Learning Objective - Organizational Design
• 1.5 Explain the characteristics of organizations that make up its design including structure, policies and measures and how they impact the culture of the organization.
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• Learning Objective - Organizational Structure
• 2.1 Discuss at least three challenges to creating value flow when applying agile approaches across an organizational system.
• 2.2 Assess at least three organizational structures and/or patterns to scale agile practices and how they impact organization culture and creating value.
• 2.3 Assess at least three governance policies and their influence on culture and creating value.
• Learning Objective - Organization Metrics
• 2.4 Compare at least three organizational metrics for alignment with agile values and how they impact behavior and results.
• Learning Objective - Culture and Organizational Design
• 2.5 Explore at least one tool or technique to identify, understand and influence the culture within an organization.
• Learning Objective - Empirical (Inspect/Adapt) Organizational Strategy
• 3.1 Explore at least one empirical strategy and the importance of transparency and feedback loops for continual revision.
• 8Learning Objective - Individuals and Organizational Change
• 3.2 Explore how organizational change impacts people and describe three benefits of involving them in the change process.
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• Learning Objective - Culture and Organizational Change
• 3.3 Analyze how change might be approached differently based on existing organizational culture, and the influence that culture has on speed, risk, and receptiveness to change
• Learning Objective - Learning Objective - Leading Change and Transition
• 3.4 Explore at least one tool or technique to assist an organization and its leaders through a change process.
• Learning Objective - Case Study
• 3.5 Introduce at least one case study of an agile transformation (success and/or failure) and discuss the organization’s decisions around direction, alignment, structure and/or behavior.
• Learning Objective - Your Organization
• 3.6 Apply this information about culture, organizational design and change by identifying elements you can implement in your organization (or an organization you are familiar with).
• CAL-Teams
• Learning Objective - Organizational Culture
• 1.1 Discuss at least five ways that organizational culture impacts agility in navigating challenges in today’s business environment.
• Learning Objective - Culture and Leadership
• 1.2 Discuss the relationship between culture and leadership mindset and behaviors.
• Learning Objective - Agility and Value
• 1.3 Discuss various interpretations of the term “value” and how agility impacts value creation.
• Learning Objective - Culture and Outcomes
• 1.4 Explain how culture and the way value is interpreted are related, and how that relationship will affect organizational outcomes.
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• Learning Objective - Organizational Design, Structure, Metrics
• 1.5 Explain the characteristics of organizations that make up its design including structure, policies and measures and how they impact the culture of the organization.
• 2.1 Discuss at least three challenges to creating value flow when applying agile approaches across an organizational system.
• 2.2 Assess at least three organizational structures and/or patterns to scale agile practices and how they impact organization culture and creating value.
• 2.3 Assess at least three governance policies and their influence on culture and creating value.
• 2.4 Compare at least three organizational metrics for alignment with agile values and how they impact behavior and results.
• Learning Objective - Culture and Organizational Design
• 2.5 Explore at least one tool or technique to identify, understand and influence the culture within an organization.
• Learning Objective - Empirical (Inspect/Adapt) Organizational Strategy, Individuals, Culture, and Organizational Change
• 3.1 Explore at least one empirical strategy and the importance of transparency and feedback loops for continual revision.
• 3.2 Explore how organizational change impacts people and describe three benefits of involving them in the change process.
• 3.3 Analyze how change might be approached differently based on existing organizational culture, and the influence that culture has on speed, risk, and receptiveness to change.3.4
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• Explore at least one tool or technique to assist an organization and its leaders through a change process.
• Learning Objective - Learning Objective - Leading Change and Transition
• 3.4 Explore at least one tool or technique to assist an organization and its leaders through a change process.
• Learning Objective - Case Study, Your Organization
• 3.5 Introduce at least one case study of an agile transformation (success and/or failure) and discuss the organization’s decisions around direction, alignment, structure and/or behavior.
• 3.6 Apply this information about culture, organizational design and change by identifying elements you can implement in your organization (or an organization you are familiar with).