Agile Leadership
(PAL-e) Online Learning Experience with Certification from naked Agility with Martin Hinshelwood
Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) Essentials is a 14h workshop, delivered over four half-days that provides a foundation of the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation.
Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-e) Essentials is a modular workshop, adaptable up to 2-days in length based on the needs of your organization. The workshop provides a foundation for the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation. Leaders and managers are critical enablers in helping their organizations be successful, yet the role of leaders and managers in an agile organization can be quite different from what they are used to. This workshop uses a combination of instruction and team-based exercises to help participants learn how to form and support agile teams to achieve better results, and how to lead the cultural and behavioural changes that organizations must make to reap the benefits of an agile product delivery approach.
This course can be delivered in various formats to support a better learning experience:
The program also includes two complementary attempts at the globally recognized Professional Agile Leadership I certification exam (PAL I).
Becoming an agile organization is a profound transformation that requires senior leaders, middle managers, and agile team members to change how they organize their work, manage it, and measure the results of the work. Agile teams cannot do this independently; they need the entire organisation’s help. The changes for all involved are profound, but so are the results when everyone’s goals and ways of working are aligned.
To succeed in a changing world, organizations need to become more agile, more responsive to customer needs and market changes. This workshop will equip leaders and managers to help their organizations change by providing participants with:
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Our primary method of increasing agile leadership knowledge is a deliberate developmental experience divided into learning blocks, each with four hours of live virtual classroom training with a qualified trainer-practitioner complemented with presentations and lectures in the form of videos, reading material, and writing activities provided for self-study. Live sessions are delivered online using Microsoft Teams and Mural, with Mighty Networks provides the self-study portal.
Every participant on every option receives:
At a minimum, we deliver the PAL-e over 4 ½ days (16 hours). We can provide this over four intensive consecutive days or four non-consecutive days over two weeks.
At a minimum, we deliver the PAL-e over 4 ½ days (16 hours). We can provide this over four intensive consecutive days or four non-consecutive days over two weeks.
Delivered as an Immersive class of 6 sessions of 4h over 6 weeks (s). Welcome to the Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PALE) course. This transformative learning journey is designed specifically for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Managers eager to understand and incorporate Agile values and principles into their leadership repertoire. The Agile landscape is continuously evolving, and a command over Agile methodologies is no longer a luxury but a necessity for modern business leaders. Agile practices enable organizations to be more adaptable, responsive, and effective in changing market dynamics. Learning Objectives: This course aims to help participants:
Course Features:
This course is more than just an introduction to Agile; it’s a comprehensive exploration of Agile’s potential to transform your leadership style, team, and entire organization. It’s essential training for those wishing to leverage the power of Agile to enhance their effectiveness and adaptability in an increasingly complex business environment. Join the Professional Agile Leadership Essentials course and equip yourself with the knowledge, skills, and mindset needed to lead in the Agile world.
To better connect the participants to the material on the PAL-e , we deliver the course as an immersive 6-week interactive activity-based course over 6 sessions of 4 hours. At the end of each session, participants are given assignments to practice and experience their day-to-day roles. With the instructor-practitioner, participants debrief assignments at the beginning of the group’s next session.
The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials course is designed for managers and those in leadership roles who are responsible for the introduction and establishment of Agile methods and techniques in an IT organization/division.
All participants completing the Professional Agile Leadership – Essentials course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) certification assessment. Over the 2 days, you will have learned the importance of inspection, adaptation, and fast feedback cycles. To reinforce those concepts, if you attempt the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) certification assessment within 14 days and do not score at least 85%, you will be granted a 2nd attempt at no further cost.
Students of Scrum.org courses are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs after attending a two-day Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) Essentials course. Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for passing a Scrum.org assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI’s “Education courses provided by other third-party providers” category. You can claim your PDUs online at https://ccrs.pmi.org. Find instructions here.
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Have you been through a class with us before? As an Alumni you get a 30% discount on all of our classes.
The Alimni discount for this class would bring it down to £795
Combine with our generous 20% Credit per Referral program.
Are you underemployed? Our Retraining Program provides favourable payment plans for those not currently working.
Pay a 30% deposit of £345 now, and the rest when you are working.
Reruns allow you to participate in a class that you have already taken for any reason at a low cost.
Have you participated in this class with us or an equivalent from another vendor? We are intent on enabling your continuous learning so we offer you a Rerun discount of 70% to take it again with our trainers.
The Rerun discount for this class would bring it down to £345. Contact us with proof of participation in a previous class to claim your discount.
For Scrum.org classes from another trainer please provide your Scrum.org Profile URL showing that associated class. For Scrum Alliance, you will need to provide a receipt. Not sure? Contact us for a chat.
Our Advocates Program allows you to gain 20% for each referral* as a credit towards future classes! This is a cash equivelent so can be added to any other discount.
*up to £230, depending on purchase region, per referal
Combine with other coupons and discounts, like the Alumni Discount of 30%
You will understand where and how agility can help your organization improve, by addressing challenges you can solve in no other way. You will also understand how agile teams work and what you, as a manager or leader, can do to help them to improve. You will also be able to quantify the benefits of improving the agility of your organization through concrete measures. This class can be delivered on-site, in a specific organization, to help its leaders understand their important role in transforming their organization, or in a public class setting.
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Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) Essentials is a 14h workshop, delivered over four half-days that provides a foundation of the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation.
naked Agility Limited is a professional company, registered in Scotland, that offers training, coaching, mentoring, and facilitation to help people and teams evolve, integrate, and continuously improve.
We recognise the positive impact that a happy AND motivated workforce, that has purpose, has on client experience. We help change mindsets towards a people-first culture where everyone encourages others to learn and grow. The resulting divergent thinking leads to many different ideas and opportunities for the success of the organisation.
We believe that every organisation deserves usable software on a regular cadence that delivers the highest possible value. Organisations are complex systems. They evolve over time and the current ways of working are a result of this evolution. We help an entire organization focus on value delivery and agree to new norms.
By reducing bureaucracy and command and control management, we believe that everyone will take responsibility for achieving the organisation’s goals. Our tailored blend of training, coaching and mentoring, gives people the opportunity to learn and develop, making the organisation, and its clients, successful.
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On an evolution towards agility and becoming a great organisation, it is your people that will determine your success. We help the entire organisation agree on methods, goals and cultural values that will enable you to adopt a product-first approach.
We have learned from the success and failure of different organisations and their experiences of introducing an agile mindset. We want to help you transition to a world within which you can delight your clients.
