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Course Details | Dec 03 - 04, 2024 | Charlotte, NC | Brad Swanson
Event Details
- Each days hours are 8:00 AM EDT to 5:00 PM EDT.
- Full participation every day is required for certification--no exceptions.
Date & Time
Dec 3, 2024(Tue)
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (EDT)
Dec 4, 2024(Wed)
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (EDT)
Your Instructor
Brad Swanson
Brad Swanson is a leadership and organizational coach who guides organizations to achieve sustainably better results using lean & agile principles. He has been a trusted advisor for executives and organizations across the globe. He honed his own leadership skills as a vice president in the consulting and software industries. Brad helps his clients to achieve business agility, which means going beyond just “doing agile” to improving business results by leveraging lean & agile practices.
Certified Agile Leader® 1 (CAL 1™)
GO PLATINUM – AND EXPERIENCE WHAT WORLD-CLASS
TRAINING CAN DO.
OUR IMMERSIVE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES TEACH YOU SCRUM BY HAVING YOU DO SCRUM
– JUST AS IT IS DONE IN THE REAL WORLD. A SMALL SAMPLING OF WHAT YOU’LL GET:
Certified Agile Leader® 1 (CAL 1™) by a CAL Educator with the Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community, having certified nearly 1 million practitioners worldwide
Sixteen hours of highly-interactive learning experience to apply leadership principles in your own situation, by one of the few consulting firms solely focused on agile transformation for over 20 years
Attendees who successfully complete CAL 1 will be eligible to continue their agile leadership developoment in the CAL 2 program
Sixteen (16) PDUs toward Project Management Institute’s PMP® and PMI-ACP® certifications
Two-year membership for each class participant with the Scrum Alliance
All course materials and resources
This class is offered in partnership with PMI to support the local PM community.
SEMINAR OVERVIEW
- This highly interactive course provides in-depth understanding of adaptive leadership for individuals and organizations.
- Today’s leaders confront rapidly changing business and market needs, making adaptable and agile leadership critical for success. How you think, focus, and act as a leader to your people and your organization needs to shift and reflect the realities of today and tomorrow, not yesterday. Agile leaders are self-aware, situational-aware, and engage others in visualizing the future.
- Business leaders and managers have to think about organizational culture and employees in different ways to become agents of change. You need the knowledge, skills, and techniques that will help you achieve sustainable agility for your organization.
- Through immersive interactive learning activities, when this course has been completed, attendees will have gained in-depth practical knowledge of agile leadership skills and techniques, and identified a personalized path for progression in developing leadership capabilities to enable agile teams and organizations to succeed.
SEMINAR OBJECTIVES
CERTIFIED AGILE LEADER® 1 (CAL 1™)
Agility is not an event—it is a lifelong mindset and journey of learning and adapting. Certified Agile Leader® 1 (CAL 1™) is an introductory practice-based program for expanding awareness of agile leadership thinking, focus, and behaviors to increase the effectiveness of a leader in complex, uncertain, and rapidly changing conditions. Participants will:
- Discuss the business case for agility
- Navigate swiftly through dynamic environments
- Discover the necessary mindset shifts to become an agile leader
- Explore innovative agile leadership capabilities
- Explore strategies for fostering and guiding dynamic, agile teams
- Facilitate an organization’s agile transformation
(CAL-1 is your steppingstone to CAL 2, which continues your journey with a deep dive into your leadership development practice and success. Attendees who successfully complete CAL 1 will be eligible to continue their agile leadership development in the CAL 2 program.)
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
Over 7,000 Recommendations Can't Be Wrong
Platinum Edge provides one of the best training programs in the industry. We have so much confidence that you will be satisfied with our training that we offer a 100% money-back guarantee. If by the end of the course you are not satisfied, you will receive a full refund of the registration fee.
PRICE MATCH GUARANTEE
We have some of the most competitive pricing in the industry. We’ll match any published price on identical classes.
REFUND POLICY
A full refund will be provided for any reason prior to one week before the start of the class. If less than one week prior to class, you will be charged $100 if you cancel and do not transfer your registration to a future Platinum Edge class.
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RECENT BLOG POSTS
Postponed: Lunch and Learn in Las Vegas: Agile Estimation
We are postponing this event until further notice due to COVID-19 and recommendation by the CDC for social distancing. Platinum Edge in partnership with the International Innovation Center will be hosting a free Lunch and Learn in Las Vegas. Our Founder Mark Layton will be speaking about Agile Estimation: An overview of relative estimation and why it is structurally more accurate than precise estimation.
COVID-19 Updates
Platinum Edge is temporarily postponing in-person private and public certification classes and instead offering live online instructor-led certification classes. Scrum Alliance has authorized live online training for full certification during this challenging time.
