Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) with Michael Sahota

On the surface, the goals of SAFe and CAL1 are similar: An Agile Organisation.

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 organisation. One might say the focus is on Doing Agile. The focus here is on what we do to improve things with as little organisational change as possible.

The focus of the Michael Sahota CAL1 Experience is an integrated view of Organisational, Cultural, Leadership and Organisational Change. It’s about Being Agile: How we use an Agile Mindset to create a nimble flexible organisation powered by engaged, innovative people. It’s all about creating a High-Performance Organisation using Agile. It is the missing foundation that will allow you to unlock your current approach to Agile be it SAFe, Less, etc.

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.

If it’s been awhile since you had taken your CAL1, here is some information for you to consider if you’d like to take a CAL1 refresher before moving forward and taking a CAL2.

Evolution of CAL1
The CAL1 we are teaching is evolving at a rapid rate. Every time we teach a CAL1, we take a CAL1. We look for ways to deepen our understanding. There are new insights and inter-connections.

Here are some of the key reasons that we encourage graduates to join us in a “modern” CAL1:

• There is new information. Get up-to-speed with a new baseline of understanding so you can be more successful.
• Now that your consciousness has shifted, you can receive more of what the course offers. Your first time through, there was a lot of letting go and releasing that which limited the reception of new information. Grads who have attended multiple times report a deepening and new unlocking each time.
• Our consciousness has shifted. We live our teachings and are on our ongoing personal growth journey. We are modelling and teaching from a very different place so the depth we bring to this subject has increased. People, for example, report that Michael is much more present, calm and clear – much more fully embodying the teachings.

Here are some key evolutions:

• Introduction of the Sahota Playbook for High-Performance (Jan 2017)
• Playbook refinement & clarity (Spring 2017)
• Linking Sahota Culture Model to Agile Culture (Fall 2017)
• Inter-weave of complexity model to culture models (Spring 2018)
• Addition of Agenda (Self-Sabotage) (Spring 2018)
• New Playbook Step – Relationship Health (Fall 2018)
• Integration of Theory X-Y with Leadership Behaviour (Fall 2018)
• Enabling “Autonomous, Self-Organizing Teams” (Spring 2019)
• New Playbook Step – “Tactical Go”. (Summer 2019)

An internet speed of at least 8 Mbps (up & down) (check your speed by Googling “speed test” and run the test)

A front-facing camera so that everyone in the class can see you. (Test this before the course.)

Audio with the ability to speak to and hear each other in the class (test this before the course)

Zoom meeting technology