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Agile Leader Online Course
Sohrab Salimi
Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) with 10+ years of trainer experience- Embark on your personal Agile Leader journey
- Understand Agile Leadership and practice systematic ways and techniques to create high-performing agile teams
- Learn how to lead transforming an organization towards more agility
- Explore various practical examples and case studies from different sectors and industries
- On successful completion receive your Agile Leadership Level 1 Certificate by Agile Academy
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About the Agile Leadership Online Course
Are you ready to make a career leap and take your leadership competencies to the next level? Our Agile Leadership Online Course is designed to help you unlock your full potential in the ever-evolving leadership landscape.
Our course offers a deep dive into the world of Agile Leadership through interactive and hands-on learning modules. Get inspired to rethink traditional leadership styles and frameworks and learn the tools and techniques that will empower you, your team, and your organization to thrive in today’s uncertain and volatile business environment.
This course is ideal for anyone looking to understand what Agile Leadership is and who aims to become a driving force in the Agile space. Whether you're a top or middle manager, a team lead, or a coach interested in expanding your agile leadership awareness and practice, this course will equip you with the insights and skills you need.
16 Hours of Video + Assignments.
Expertise from 10+ Years of Experience.
Agile Course Curriculum
Intro | Agile Leadership
- Download and Use Your Workbook
- How to Get the Most Out of This Course
- Success Requires Commitment
Context for Agile Leadership
- Intro | Context for Agile Leadership
- The Need for Innovation
- Case Study Tesla
- Case Study Apple
- The Innovation Stack
- Case Study Haier
- Case Study Amazon
- Context of Agile
- Defined vs. Empirical
- Drivers for Change
- History of Management
- Outro | Context for Agile Leadership
- Assignments | Context for Agile Leadership
Agile Leadership
- Intro | Agile Leadership
- Exercise | Decentralization of Decision Making
- Debrief | Decentralization of Decision Making
- Intro | Leadership Agility Exercise
- Exercise | Expert Leader
- Debrief | Expert Leader
- Exercise | Achiever Leader
- Debrief | Achiever Leader
- Exercise | Heroic Leadership
- Debrief | Heroic Leadership
- Exercise | Catalyst Leader
- Debrief | Catalyst Leader
- Leadership Agility Framework
- Leadership Agility Examples
- Intro | Leadership Principles Exercise
- Debrief | Amazon Leadership Principles
- Debrief | Google Great Managers
- Intro | Journey towards Agile Leadership
- Foundations of Good Decisions
- What is Mindset?
- Awareness, Choice & Change
- Do, Lead & Coach
- Intro | Tools & Techniques
- Catalyst Conversation
- Powerstyles
- Manager on a Page
- 1-on-1 Meetings
- Outro | Agile Leadership
- Assignments | Agile Leadership
Leading Agile Teams
- Intro | Leading Teams
- Definition of a Team
- Key Characteristics of an Agile Team
- Cross-functional Teams
- Developer Journey
- Self-managed Teams
- Tuckman Model
- Hackman Model for Team Effectiveness
- 5 Dysfunctions of Teams
- Example | 5 Dysfunctions of Teams
- Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose
- Outro | Leading Teams
- Case Study Nucor
- Case Study Southwest Airlines
- Assignments | Leading Agile Teams
Leading Agile Organizations
- Intro | Leading Organizations
- Intro to Understanding Culture
- Introduction to the Culture Map
- Introduction Amazon Culture Exercise
- Exercise | Amazon Culture
- Debrief | Amazon Culture Exercise
- Case Study Amazon
- Intro | Competing Values Framework (CVF)
- Explanation Competing Values Framework
- Introduction CVF Exercise
- Exercise | Competing Values Framework
- Debrief | CVF Exercise
- Mapping the Agile Manifesto in the CVF
- Intro | Journey towards Agility
- Which Levers to Pull for Changing An Organization?
- Organizational Structures
- Organizational Policies
- Organizational Metrics
- Other Levers to Changing Organizations
- Outro | Journey towards Agility
- Intro | Change & Transformation
- Kotter Change Model
- Drivers for Change
- Introduction of the V2MOM
- Example | Organizational V2MOM - Salesforce
- Example | Personal V2MOM - Sohrab
- Exercise | Create Your Own V2MOM
- Outro | Change & Transformation
- Case Study Netflix
- Outro | Leading Organizations
- Assignments | Leading Agile Organizations
Course Quiz
- Intro | Agile Leadership Quiz
Outro | Agile Leadership
Your Course Instructor
Sohrab Salimi
Scrum Academy GmbH
Sohrab is the founder and CEO of Scrum Academy GmbH and has been a Certified Scrum Trainer® and Certified Agile Leadership Educator with the Scrum Alliance for nearly ten years, where he served on the Board of Directors until the end of 2020.
His background as a management consultant at Bain & Company, his later role as Chief Innovation Officer at SE-Consulting, and Chairman of the Board at Venture Agile, as well as his and his medical degree, give Sohrab a holistic perspective on people and organizations during agile transformation.
View full profileCustomers Love the Agile Leader Online Course
Following the Agile Leader self paced course was an outstanding experience. Full of concrete tools and techniques to improve leadership, the course is very well prepared and organized. I’ve already implemented many of the techniques learned in the course in PhotonPath and I must say that the results come quite quickly! Thanks Sohrab and the whole team!
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With In-person Training Benefits
At Agile Academy, we offer a unique and sustainable learning model that combines the convenience of a self-paced Agile Leadership Online Course with the hands-on experience of live training. Whether you prefer live-online or in-person sessions, we've got you covered.
During the live training sessions, you'll delve deeply into the practical aspects of how to be an agile leader. Benefit from direct exchanges and immediate feedback from experts in the field. We offer Certified Agile Leadership training with recognized Scrum Alliance certification, ensuring you receive top-tier education and credentials in the Agile Leadership domain.
Our Agile Leadership Online Course perfectly complements the live training experience, allowing you to deepen and consolidate your knowledge at your own pace. This dynamic combination fosters a comprehensive competency in Agile Leadership.
The online course covers every aspect of the live training and more as we are not time constrained. It is also by design the most sustainable way to learn as you will receive a life-time licence and thus will be able to recap at any point in time.
Frequently Asked Questions
In this course you will learn what an agile leader is or what agile leadership actually means and how it differs from regular good management.
The answers we found might be surprising. If you are a great manager, i.e. someone who is great at both developing a business and developing people in an uncertain environment, you are most likely a great Agile Leader already.
For us, being an Agile Leader is all about having the ability to develop individuals, teams, and organizations in today’s VUCA environment. Most likely volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity won’t become less going forward… so the skills to deal with this environment will become more and more relevant.
Great Agile Leaders understand that the only way to address these challenges is through radical empowerment, which requires radical enablement. Great Agile Leaders know that letting people make decisions without them having the skill nor the context for decision making is a recipe for disaster. Great Agile Leaders have the ability to strategically align their people, enable them, i.e., build the capabilities, and empower them, i.e., trust them to make the right calls.
You will learn all this in this Agile Leader Online Course. The course will help you understand what Agile Leadership is all about. It teaches you a terminology and framework to think about leadership in a more systematic way and shares concrete tools and techniques to create high-performing agile teams and organizations.
This course is specifically designed for managers, executives, coaches, and other professionals who aspire to be driving forces in the Agile world. If you're looking to understand what certified Agile Leadership is and how to be an agile leader, this course offers the tools and techniques you need to build high-performing Agile teams and organizations.
Whether you're a beginner in a leadership roles or an experienced leader, this Agile Leadership Online Course is suitable for you. In an increasingly uncertain work environment, even seasoned leaders will find new inspiration and practical tools to enhance their leadership skills. Our course aims to answer questions like "What are the characteristics that define an Agile Leader?" and "What are the benefits of Agile Leadership?", providing a comprehensive competency in Agile Leadership for all.
Both our live and our self-paced online course (e-learninig) provide you with concrete tools and techniques to transfer your awareness of Agile Leadership into practice.
The course includes around 16 hours of video material and is full of practical models that help you think differently about many aspects of leadership. Plus, you will get a 120+ page workbook designed specifically for this course that will guide you through the course and make your learning journey even more sustainable.
We recommend that you generally allow enough time for the many assignments and exercises in the course to work through all of them.
The course package also includes access to our Agile Academy Community. Use the community to exchange ideas with other leaders around the world and discuss your questions about Agile Leadership. In the community, you will also find our Agile Academy team, who will be happy to assist you as a contact.
Upon completing the course, you will earn the Agile Leadership Level 1 Certificate by Agile Academy, a recognized credential that validates your skills and expertise in Agile practices.
This course also prepares you for additional certifications, such as the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL 1) assessment by Scrum.org (fees for external assessments are not included).
Learn more about our certification program here: Certified by Agile Academy.
If you have questions about the certification of the Agile Academy online courses, just contact us. We will be happy to advise you on whether and which certification is most relevant for you.
Philip Rogowski
Customer Success Manager
team@agile-academy.com +49 151 610 59 938 Mo-Fri.: 9am - 5pmWhat People Love About Our Online Courses:
Complex Topics, Explained Simply!
We convey models, frameworks, and concepts in a simple way so that you can understand them easily.
Great Visualization
We visualize as many things as possible so that you can learn not only by listening but also by seeing.
Practical Exercises
Our online courses offer you many appealing exercises to experience the topic practically.
Examples from Different Industries & Projects
We share case studies from different industries and projects we have worked on.
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