(CAL 2™) CERTIFIED AGILE LEADER® 2

Today's organizations must understand agile capabilities to dominate the market, deliver maximum value to customers, and achieve their goals. The Certified Agile Leader® 2 (CAL 2™) builds on the foundation of CAL 1, helping you apply agile leadership skills directly to organizational strategy, value delivery, and your own professional growth.

Course Overview
In CAL 2, you'll deepen the connections between agile leadership capabilities, behaviors, and practices and learn how to enable rapid adaptation, customer focus, and responsiveness to change across your entire organization. The course focuses on three core areas: organizational structure and design, value and metrics, and leadership competencies, giving you the tools to lead people, execute strategy, and deliver more value to customers.

Topics Covered

-Organizational Structure and Design
-Value and Metrics
-Leadership Competencies
-Vision, Mission, and Values
-Organizational Strategy
-Change Management
-People Management and Delegation
-Feedback, Conflict Management, and Difficult Conversations
-Influencing and Decision Making

Prerequisites & Requirements
Completion of Certified Agile Leader® 1 (CAL 1™) is required to receive your CAL 2 certification. Reliable internet access is the only additional requirement.

Who This Course Is For

-Organizational Decision Makers & Change Leaders: Embrace the agile values, practices, and metrics that drive agile decision-making and take an active role in sustainable business agility
-Executives: Accelerate your agile learning curve and discover the meaningful, active role you can play in a sustainable agile transformation
-Managers: Gain practical tools to grow as an agile practitioner and leader while building champions for change across your organization
-Agile Team Members & Aspiring Agilists: Learn what agile leaders do differently to prepare teams to pivot powerfully in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world
-Coaches & Consultants: Acquire the tools to help clients navigate transformation with a focus on people, mindsets, and culture
- Anyone interested in personal leadership growth: Discover your leadership style, build empathy, and enhance both your career and personal life

Learning Objectives
As a participant, you will:

-Explore common challenges leaders face related to organizational strategy and delivery and their underlying causes
-Discuss how vision, mission, and values influence organizational culture and performance
-Examine how organizational strategy fosters agility and the structural constructs that support its execution
-Evaluate organizational design principles and how they impact autonomy, collaboration, and team structure
-Propose changes to organizational structure based on current challenges and potential benefits
-Discuss approaches for delivering end-to-end value to customers and analyze how structure facilitates or hinders that delivery
-Compare appropriate and inappropriate uses of metrics and their impact on organizational agility
-Outline what change management is, address common misconceptions, and summarize approaches leaders can use to support it
-Develop a personalized leadership approach focused on continual learning, collaborative relationships, and team growth
-Identify common obstacles in personal leadership development and strategies to overcome them
-Explore delegation models and decision-making frameworks that support a shift from expert-centric to collaborative leadership
-Apply feedback models to effectively deliver and receive feedback
-Use a conflict model to resolve disputes and foster cohesive team dynamics
-Explore communication strategies for conducting difficult conversations
-Describe how to use an influencing model to guide others toward desired organizational outcomes

Certification & Career Benefits
The CAL 2 is backed by the Scrum Alliance, one of the most globally recognized agile credentialing bodies and delivers knowledge that is immediately applicable in your role.

Understand how mission, vision, and values empower teams and drive organizational success
Learn how to design team and organizational structures that execute strategy effectively
Deepen your understanding of change management as a critical component of transformation
Elevate your leadership skills and stand out in any role or industry

Scrum Alliance certifications are among the most requested credentials in agile job descriptions. Research shows that 55% of organizations report paying more for candidates with relevant certifications, and 77% of hiring managers rank certifications as important when evaluating candidates. CAL 2 positions you as an agile leader prepared to help your organization reach its goals and outperform the competition.