Certified Agile Leader® 1

CAL1 Certified Agile Leadership Level 1 — Why Attend

CAL1 equips leaders with practical skills to lead Agile teams, create psychological safety, and drive measurable organizational change. The program focuses on mindset, servant leadership, team design, and leadership experiments you can run immediately to improve outcomes.

Perks of Attending CAL1

• Practical Leadership Outcomes — Tools and techniques you can apply from day one to enable high‑performing teams.

• Expert Trainer‑Led Sessions — Live facilitation by experienced Agile leaders and coaches.

• Course Fee Includes Certificate — Completion certificate and postcourse resources.

• Continuous Support — Community access, follow‑up materials, and optional coaching check‑ins.

• Satisfaction Guarantee — Refund policy if you are unable to attend or the program does not meet expectations.

• Ready‑to‑Use Templates — Team charter, experiment templates, metrics dashboard, and facilitation guides.

Learning Experience

• Format: Live instructor‑led workshops with role plays, simulations, and peer coaching.

• Focus: Servant leadership, psychological safety, team design, flow enablers, stakeholder engagement, and change leadership.

• Activities: Team health diagnostics, coaching practice, facilitation labs, value‑stream mapping, and 30/60/90 day leadership experiments.

• Deliverables: Personal leadership reflection, team improvement experiment, and a 90‑day leadership action plan.

Participant Requirements

• Who should attend: Team leads, engineering managers, product owners, delivery managers, program and portfolio managers, Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, HR leaders, and newly promoted managers.

• Technical needs for virtual delivery: Laptop, stable internet, webcam, microphone, and Zoom or equivalent.

• Prework: Short leadership self‑assessment and a one‑page summary of a current team challenge.

Session Timings and Format

• Duration: 3 days (customizable schedule; typical delivery 5 hours per day).

• Delivery options: Virtual live.

• Typical batch timing: Evenings or daytime corporate schedules available on request.

Contact and Next Steps

• Email: [email protected]

• Phone/WhatsApp: +91‑9990451666
  

Day 1 Foundations of Agile Leadership

1. Welcome and Course Orientation

   • Introductions, learning objectives, participant expectations, and leadership challenges.

2. Agile Mindset and Leadership Shift

   • Agile values and principles; differences between command‑and‑control and servant leadership.

3. Psychological Safety and Team Dynamics

   • Building trust, diagnosing team health, and practical exercises using a team health radar.

4. Servant Leadership Core Skills

   • Coaching conversations, active listening, powerful questions, and feedback techniques.

5. Day 1 Deliverable

   • Personal leadership reflection and a coaching conversation plan.

Day 2 Enabling High Performing Teams

1. Team Design and Autonomy

   • Team boundaries, accountabilities, and creating clear charters that enable ownership.

2. Removing Impediments and Enabling Flow

   • Identifying systemic blockers, lightweight escalation patterns, and visual management techniques.

3. Metrics That Matter for Leaders

   • Outcome‑focused measures, flow indicators, and how to interpret metrics without micromanaging.

4. Facilitation and Conflict Management

   • Facilitation techniques for alignment meetings, retrospectives, and resolving team conflicts.

5. Day 2 Deliverable

   • Team improvement experiment proposal with success criteria and measurement plan.

Day 3 Scaling Leadership and Organizational Change

1. Aligning Teams to Strategy

   • Outcomes over outputs, OKRs, and mapping value streams to identify systemic bottlenecks.

2. Leading Change and Stakeholder Engagement

   • Change levers, governance patterns that support agility, and stakeholder communication strategies.

3. Coaching the Organization

   • Building coaching cadences, mentoring leaders, and enabling a culture of continuous improvement.

4. Designing Leadership Experiments

   • Creating 30/60/90 day experiments, defining success metrics, and planning follow‑up coaching.

5. Closing Presentations and Commitments

   • Participant presentations of action plans, peer feedback, and facilitator recommendations.

6. Day 3 Deliverable

   • Final leadership action plan and commitment to a 90‑day improvement roadmap.

Activities and Assessment

• Interactive Workshops: role plays, simulations, and real‑world case studies.

• Peer Coaching: practice leadership conversations and receive structured feedback.

• Practical Assignments: team charter, improvement experiment, and leadership action plan.

• Assessment: facilitator review of deliverables and participation; certificate on completion.

Materials and Requirements

• Prework: short readings and a leadership self‑assessment.

• Tools: laptop, stable internet for virtual delivery, Zoom and shared whiteboard (Miro).

• Postcourse Support: templates, facilitator notes, and optional follow‑up coaching sessions.

Who Should Attend CAL1

• Team Leads

• Engineering Managers

• Project Managers

• Delivery Managers

• Program Managers

• Portfolio Managers

• Product Managers

• Product Owners

• Scrum Masters

• Agile Coaches

• Release Managers

• Technical Architects

• Business Analysts

• HR and People Managers involved in team design

• Transformation Leads and Change Agents

• Newly promoted leaders and first‑time managers

• Anyone responsible for enabling high‑performing Agile teams