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Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019

Join Maria Matarelli in Austin, Texas as she gives a workshop on Agile Conflict Resolution at the Global Scrum Gathering Austin.

Title: Agile Conflict Resolution 

Date: May 20-22, 2019

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Agile conflict resolution is a workshop packed with powerful communication hacks that will allow you to better understand, empathize with, and motivate your team through daily situations from the most stressful to the most mundane. Learn how to identify and catalogue observable behaviors, separate them from personal feelings, and bond with your team around their needs with techniques that will allow you to drastically speed up your conflict resolution process. This experiential workshop will introduce a new twist on familiar concepts that we apply during the session and will impact every aspect of your life.

Learning Objectives: 1) Discover how you can identify and diffuse team conflict before it impacts team performance. 2) Learn three techniques that can be applied for conflict resolution. 3) Uncover how to identify and remove emotional roadblocks. 4) Practice applying these techniques in live exercises to improve your interpersonal relationships at work and at home. 5) Identify and leave better equipped to address conflicts that need resolving.

For more information on this event or to register, click here.

2019 AgileIndy Conference

Join Maria Matarelli as she gives a Keynote on Personal Agility at the 2019 AgileIndy Conference. The AgileIndy Conference is an annual one-day conference put on by AgileIndy in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is the 7th year of the conference.

Date:April 26th, 2019

Title: Personal Agility: A Simple Framework for an Empowered Life

Session Type: Keynote

Summary: Discover the keys to a truly Agile lifestyle and the power of pushing past limiting beliefs. Learn how to apply Personal Agility in your life to achieve goals you may have never thought possible. Maria will help you uncover ways to identify obstacles, visualize what’s important, and focus on what really matters.

For more information on this event or to register, click here.

Certified Agile Leadership

We are excited to offer our next Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) course in February 2019 in Florida (winter get-away!) where you will have the opportunity to sign up to attend CAL1 + CAL2 in the same week for an Agile Leadership Bootcamp. These sessions are powered by Personal Agility where you can also become a Personal Agility Recognized Practitioner. We also have a CAL1 course available in Chicago in March 2019.

CAL1 + CAL2 + Personal Agility Training in Florida – February 2019

Read more details on this program here: Agile Leadership Bootcamp in Florida

CAL1 Training Course in Chicago – March 2019

Read more details on this program here: CAL1 Chicago

CAL1 and CAL2 training courses will be led by Certified Enterprise Coach, Michael Sahota.

Michael is a leading trainer for the Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) Program through the Scrum Alliance. He has taught over 700 graduates worldwide. His classes are controversial and unique. This is what allows his students to flourish. He shows them what the missing pieces are to common organizational challenges. You can go back to your organization and implement right away.

He’s been in the Agile world for 20 years and is the expert in helping leaders bridge the gap between Agile and organizational reality.

Agile Leadership Bootcamp with Michael K Sahota Powered by Personal Agility

CAL1 + CAL2 + Personal Agility 5 Day Bootcamp

February 4-8, 2019

This workshop is designed to be an immersive experience and will begin at 9:00am and conclude by 8:00pm each day. Multiple breaks will be provided along with excellent meals.

“Agile” Culture & Leadership Training (CAL1)

Overcome 90% of the Challenges with Agile Transformation Using An Agile Mindset

Michael K Sahota’s “Agile” Culture & Leadership Training is an intense 2 days of deep exploration into leadership, organizational growth and culture to deliver high performance organizations. You will get the Certified Agile Leadership (CAL 1) credential from the Scrum Alliance when you complete it.

Advanced Culture & Leadership Training (CAL2)

Michael K Sahota’s CAL 2 is a continuation and extension of the Sahota CAL 1.

It is a deep dive into the concepts of the Sahota CAL1 that includes practical role-playing experiences and advanced personal growth skills. It also covers additional material that builds on CAL1 around organizational evolution and high performance.

It consists of a 3 day in person training/workshop followed by a 4-month integration program.

The training is an intense 3 days of deep exploration into leadership, organizational growth and the connection of culture to high performance organizations. During this experience, participants will undergo a process of letting go of existing behaviours that block their abilities to be an effective leader. You will learn how to master the playbook you learned in the Sahota CAL1 and take it to a deeper level.

Note: You need to have completed Michael K Sahota’s CAL1 to take the Sahota CAL2 as it builds on specific material only taught in his CAL1.

Personal Agility

Accelerate your Leadership journey with Personal Agility, a simple framework that helps you visualize, prioritize, and do more of what matters in your life while staying accountable to what you want to achieve.

We will cover the core principles and foundations of Personal Agility throughout this Leadership bootcamp and you will also gain access to the online portal with support for the next 4 weeks following the course. After applying Personal Agility for 4 weeks, you can fill out the Recognized Practitioner application and schedule a coaching call to become a Personal Agility Recognized Practitioner.

This workshop has been led for practitioners around the world with locations including Italy, Germany, Switzerland, India, Canada, and throughout the U.S. Feedback.

Three Package Options*

CAL1 + Personal Agility – While we highly recommend taking CAL1 + CAL2 this week, you are welcome to sign up for just CAL1 which will be the first 2 days infused with the Personal Agility content as well.

CAL2 + Personal Agility – If you have already taken CAL1 from Michael Sahota and are interested in CAL2, you may want to select this option which will be 3 days of CAL2 infused with Personal Agility. We do highly recommend attending the full week for a refresher of CAL1 which you may attend at 50% off (please contact maria@formulaink.com for this discount code).

CAL1 + CAL2 + Personal Agility – This is the most recommended package for the leader wanting to supercharge your journey of personal growth. The first two days will consist of CAL1, while the second part of the week (3 days) will be a deeper dive into the CAL2 content. Each day will be infused with Personal Agility principles and application for greater enhancement of your leadership journey.

*Super Early Bird, Early Bird, and Regular Pricing available for each package

To Register, Click Here.

Meet Your Instructors

Michael Sahota, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)

Michael believes people deliver astounding results when they have Passion and Purpose, Joy and Meaning, Creativity, Safety, Trust and Belonging. He believes we can foster work environments where people can grow and evolve to unleash their best every day.

Michael helps people cultivate their organizational culture, invite a more conscious way of being and relating, and evolve organizational structures and practices that foster new ways of working.

As a guide, Michael helps leaders navigate the world of organizational reinvention, supports learning and growth through: training, coaching, consulting, and facilitation. Michael focuses on increasing awareness of the connection between actions and outcomes, regularly inviting change, and he always walks the talk.

Maria Matarelli, Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)

Maria Matarelli, an Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), is passionate about helping people reach a level of higher performance. While training leaders and teams around the world, Maria has noticed how powerful and essential the Agile Leadership principles are for true Agility. After attending four CAL1 trainings and CAL2 while applying the Sahota Playbook, Maria realized how important these practices are for people and organizations. While also exploring the application of the Personal Agility framework to her own life, Maria discovered how easily these two areas compliment each other for supergrowth in your own Leadership journey.

Maria travels to consult businesses and speak at conferences from Vancouver to Morocco, Sweden, New York, Hawaii, Istanbul and many other locations and has built a team of experienced, certified trainers and consultants available to guide people and organizations through achieving performance on a new level.

Agile Tour Bangkok 2018

Join Maria Matarelli as she gives a Keynote on Business Agility at Agile Tour Bangkok 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand. Agile Tour Bangkok is the not-for-profit Agile Conference coming back for the 7th year.

Date: Friday, November 2, 2018

Title: Business Agility | Empowering Organizational Effectiveness with Agile Marketing

Session Type: Keynote

Summary: Discover the possibilities of Agile Marketing and the power of applying Agile across your organization for full Business Agility. We’ll explore a case study of Agile applied to Marketing and discuss the benefits of aligning your organization’s use of Agile across departments along with the mindset shift necessary. Instead of focusing on who you can sell to, the focus is shifted to truly connecting with who needs your product or service most while leveraging rapid iterations for maximum output.

For more information on this event or to register, click here.

In addition, Maria Matarelli will be teaching a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) class and a Certified Agile Marketing Specialist (CAMS) class in Bangkok, Thailand.

Please click here to register for the CSPO class.

Please click here to register for the CAMS class.

eXperience Agile Personal Agility Keynote and Workshop

Join Maria Matarelli as she gives a keynote presentation with Peter Stevens on Personal Agility on October 1 in Lisbon, Portugal. Maria Matarelli and Peter Stevens are also leading a Personal Agility Workshop. Personal Agility is a unique one-day course where you will learn to develop agility starting with you and to embrace those changes in your team and your company. Through this experience, you will learn how to do more of what matters by increasing your personal productivity and how to use your time in a more efficient way and organize your tasks more logically.

For more details or to register click here.

Keynote Presentation by Maria Matarelli at Scrum Australia 2018

Join Maria Matarelli as she gives the Closing Keynote Presentation at Scrum Australia, held in Sydney on October 24-25, 2018

Scrum Australia is a Regional Scrum Gathering and promises all you expect from Scrum Gatherings and more:
-Quality keynote speakers: we have been proud to host some of the world’s most recognized authorities in Scrum and Agile in our past conferences, and hope that you’ll be just as impressed with our Keynote lineup for 2018.
-Workshops and sessions, for both beginners and the more advanced practitioners, are always of the highest calibre and encompass the latest trends.
-Open Space, which embodies two highly interactive, participant-led, half-day sessions that display self-organization at its finest.
-A Coaches Clinic that offers participants complimentary coaching with some of the most recognized Scrum coaches: from both Australia and overseas.

All of this is encompassed in a warm, inviting environment that will have you leaving with the feeling that you have just spent a couple a couple of days with a few hundred of your closest friends.

For more details –> Check out the conference site

Heart of Agile Conference Pittsburgh: Experience Report on Personal Agility and Balancing your Life

Maria Matarelli will be giving a presentation at the Heart of Agile Conference in Pittsburgh on April 27, 2018.

Date: Friday, April 27, 2018
Title: Agile Lifestyle: Personal Agility and Balancing your Life
Session Type: Experience Report
Summary:  Maria Materelli has been working on balancing her workaholic life for the last several years. In this experience report, Maria will relate recent experiences in helping people organize, balance and start to direct their overly cluttered lives through the Personal Agility framework. This session might be for you if you or one of your friends could do with de-cluttering your lives, getting it back in focus.

Additionally, Maria will DJ during the evening dinner/cruise. Make sure you stay for this magical 2-hour trip up and down the three rivers.

For more information or to register, please click here.

Personal Agility Workshop – Global Scrum Gathering Minneapolis 2018

 
Maria Matarelli will be doing a Personal Agility Workshop at at the Global Scrum Gathering in Minneapolis on April 18th.

Date:  Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Title:  Personal Agility Workshop

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Walk through a hands-on workshop and discover how to apply the Personal Agility Framework, Priorities Map, and six insightful questions to discover what really matters.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Learn how to apply personal agility as a framework for your life
  • Discover ways to identify how your actions align with what really matters
  • Practice applying the Personal Agility Priorities Map
  • Discover ways to coach others on Personal Agility

For more details on this event and to register, please visit the Scrum Alliance website: https://www.scrumalliance.org/sgmsp