Certified Agile Leadership Training
The Michael K Sahota Experience
Conquering Today’s Toughest
Leadership Challenges
Integrating Agile into Traditional Organizations
Organization Misalignment
Communication Challenges
Talent Attraction and Retention
Hybrid Work Engagement
Balancing Delivery and Long-Term Goals
Navigating Organizational Change
Building a Healthy Organizational Culture
Leading Remote Teams
Embracing Diversity and Inclusion
Learn How to Move
Beyond Traditional Leadership
Traditional to Evolutionary Model explains how to identify traps of traditional leadership and move to new leadership patterns.
Your Leadership Journey:
Empower, Transform, Deliver
Empower Teams & Individuals
Bridge communication gaps between managers and staff, ensuring clarity and collaboration.
Ignite passion and drive within your team, fueling the desire to excel.
Overcome interpersonal and team-based communication hurdles, creating a harmonious workspace.
Foster an atmosphere of trust, ensuring everyone feels valued and confident in leadership.
To Deliver Outstanding Results
Minimize project setbacks, cutting down on wasted time and resources.
Enhance delivery momentum, providing clear and visible progress updates.
Ensure consistent alignment, focusing on what truly matters for valuable delivery.
Seamlessly integrate diverse work methodologies for a well-rounded approach.
Upcoming Training
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November 5 - November 7
4:00 pm - 10:00 pm
4:00 pm - 10:00 pm
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND – VIRTUAL – Certified Agile Leadership (CAL-E/O) with Michael K Sahota: November 2023
February 6, 2024 - February 8, 2024
4:00 pm - 10:00 pm
4:00 pm - 10:00 pm
North America – VIRTUAL – Certified Agile Leadership (CAL-E/O) with Michael K Sahota: February 2024
February 12, 2024 - February 14, 2024
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
EUROPE – VIRTUAL – Certified Agile Leadership (CAL-E/O) with Michael K Sahota: February 2024
What You Will Learn
Move Beyond Agile: Understand how to integrate Agile into traditional cultures to overcome 90% of the challenges with transformation.
What To Do Tomorrow: Practical daily changes you can easily make that lead to a radical shift in your level of influence that impact your organizational performance.
Evolutionary Leadership: How you can move beyond traditional leadership models to reclaim your ability to create rapid change.
Culture Tools: How to diagnose culture and create a local culture shift without authority, power or budget.
Eliminate Resistance: Learn how to eliminate hidden causes of resistance.
Transformation: Change patterns to increase awareness, desire and motivation for change. Practical roadmaps to scale with your people.
Unlocking Metrics: Identify common traps to focus on the KPIs that really matter. Learn the Sahota Innovation of how metrics are measured. Unlock the truth of the how your organization is performing.
SELF Framework: A complete framework for Delivering Success Through People.
SELF Framework:
Deliver Success Through People
Overcome 90% of the Challenges with Agile Transformation
You will learn the maps, models, principles and tools needed to unlock Business Agility and create an environment where Agile (and Beyond) can thrive. The SELF Framework is fully compatible with all new ways of working.
This is the only Certified Agile Leadership Training based on the SHIFT314 Evolutionary Leadership Framework (SELF).
What You Will Experience
You want agile? Do this first.
A. Graham
CIO, Metrolinx
This is a “must attend” class if you aspire to be a leadership coach- some really powerful task and techniques to enable leadership to create a high-performance culture and organizations.
N. Malhotra
Agile Coach
The best leadership training, I have ever experienced.
J. Bergeron
Partner, PwC
Amazing course. Take a dive into the psychology and spiritual elements of leadership. This is not something you will have experienced before. It’s beyond Agile. I feel enlightened.
M. Huynh
Scrum Master and Agile Coach
This promoted such beneficial reflection on what we do each day, why and how. And where we are getting it wrong!
K. Baker
Senior Director, Australian Government
During this training the most valuable insight gained was to get out of my own way. The delivery of the material challenged my way of thinking.
R. Ellerman
CEO of DisputeSuite.com
Frequently Asked Questions
What is CAL-E, CAL-T, & CAL-O?
Scrum Alliance is replacing our Certified Agile Leadership I (CAL I) program and will now be: CAL-Essentials (CAL-E), CAL-Teams (CAL-T), and CAL for Organizations (CAL-O). More information can be found on the Scrum Alliance website.
The Sahota CAL1, will continued to be offered as a 2 or 3 day training as: CAL-E + CAL-O: “Certified Agile Leadership Essentials for Organization Leaders”
With the credential changes through Scrum Alliance, which credential will I now receive?
After completion of the current “CAL-E & CAL-O”, we will process your credentials through Scrum Alliance for CAL-E & CAL-O, as CAL1 credentials will no longer be issued through Scrum Alliance after December 31, 2020.
Do all CAL trainings cover the same content?
No. And there is a good reason for this.
All CAL-E & CAL-O trainings cover the same set of high-level learning objectives.
However, each training is as unique as the instructor. Each CAL1 reflects the unique leadership and organizational development journey of the instructor.
Our CAL-E & CAL-O experience reflects the unique intellectual property developed over a decade of professional practice. Our approach has been proven around the world through the success of our graduates.
You get the SELF Framework and Leading Beyond Change to continue your journey.
Why Don't You Offer CAL-T?
In our CAL-E & CAL-O we give you tools that apply to people and organizational systems. As such you will learn to navigate all levels: teams, groups, etc. So there is no separate toolkit that you need for teams.
So you can think of CAL-T as being included (at a solution level) in our training.
Do you offer private CAL-E & CAL-O trainings?
Yes. Organizations are getting huge benefits from internal CAL-E & CAL-O training. With executives, managers, and coaches all in the same room, we increase the shared organizational awareness and alignment needed to get high performance. Participants can have internal discussions that are not possible in a public class.
We also offer an integrated training and coaching approach that gives leaders the ongoing support they need to make the shift to a new way of working and being.
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What is the difference between SAFe and CAL-E /O?
On the surface, the goals of SAFe and CAL-E & CAL-O are similar: An Agile Organization.
SAFe has an excellent focus on Tactical elements of Agile, such as the process, roles, multi-team releases. It is a wonderful way to adopt Agile practices in a large organization. One might say the focus is on Doing Agile. The focus here is on what we do to improve things with as little organizational change as possible.
The focus of the Michael Sahota CAL-E & CAL-O Experience is an integrated view of Organizational, Cultural, Leadership, and Org Change. It’s about Being Agile: How we use an Agile Mindset to create a nimble flexible organization powered by engaged, innovative people. It’s all about creating a High-Performance Organization using Agile. It is the missing foundation that will allow you to unlock your current approach to Agile be it SAFe, Less, etc.
What is the breakdown of PDU's?
This training provides 14 SEUs in support of the Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), and 14 PDUs in support of certifications offered by the Project Management Institute, including the PMIACP as well as the PMP certification. You can claim 1/2 as strategic and 1/2 as leadership.
Continuing Your Leadership Journey:
‘Leading Beyond Change’
Enduring Resource: Delve into the Shift314 Evolutionary Leadership Framework (SELF) with your personal copy of “Leading Beyond Change.” This resource is tailored to support and extend your learning beyond our course.
Patterns for Ongoing Growth: Revisit and reflect upon dozens of business patterns across seven organizational dimensions. Whenever you seek clarity or deeper insight into course material, this guide will be your beacon.
Deepening Understanding: The journey from conventional to evolutionary leadership is rich and multi-faceted. With this book at your side, you can continually refine your leadership approach, ensuring your organization thrives amidst change.
