Rapid Learning Cycles Global Project Leader Certification Workshop

Prepare to Lead Your Team to High Velocity Innovation

Innovators Can't Accelerate Product Development Without New Ways of Thinking

No one thinks their innovation or product development teams are fast enough.
Long slow loopbacks cause project delays, cost overruns and a loss of confidence.
The typical shortcuts, made by teams under pressure, make these loopbacks more prevalent and more damaging.
Loopbacks are not addressed and may even be exacerbated when teams try to become more "agile".
Teams have not fully adapted to the changing work environment which makes online collaboration a necessity.

When You're Ready to Use the Rapid Learning Cycles Framework We Are Ready to Show You How Step-by-Step

You may have tried to...

Impose schedule and/or budget pressure to try to force creativity.
Isolate your innovation teams from the rest of the organization to “protect” them.
Encourage teams to “act more like a startup” by hacking away at the product until it works.
Apply software development methodologies to tangible products.

. . . we have a breakthrough framework for repeatable results.

The Rapid Learning Cycles
Global Project Leader Certification Workshop Helps You
Accelerate Your Program from Idea to Launch

Focus

Identify the high impact / high unknown decisions that trigger loopbacks when made too early and without sufficient knowledge.

Flexibility

Pull learning forward to build the knowledge needed to make good decisions, and delay decisions as long as possible to preserve flexibility.

Confidence

Make decisions with the right people, at the right time with the best available knowledge, avoiding the churn of long, slow loopbacks — getting innovation to market faster.

Can't We Just Do This
On Our Own?

When teams try it on their own they can get discouraged or even misinterpret a key concept in the framework in such a way that the team gets frustrated and abandons the RLCf before it has a chance to start working for them.

We've created a workshop that will take the guesswork out of implementing the framework.

When teams get that training and support, they are able to master the RLCf faster, adapt it to their organizations’ specific environments faster, and start getting results faster.

They accelerate from Idea to Launch, and make a difference faster.

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Can't We Just Do Agile?

Agile practices built for software developers rarely work for tangible products without heavy adaptation — and may in fact exacerbate the problems because these practices don't eliminate the root causes of the obstacles that the teams experience.

The Rapid Learning Cycles framework specifically addresses the root causes of these obstacles so that innovative products flow smoothly from idea to launch.

When teams use the framework they get their best ideas to market faster, increase capacity for innovation, gain more confidence in their teams’ ability to innovate and ultimately realize more organic growth.

I had some doubts about sending all our Project Managers and whether they would learn how to use Rapid Learning Cycles better for their own projects. But I am sticking with the decision to send them all as it is another positive experience with Rapid Learning Cycles when they are applying it together with RLC enthusiasts from other companies and more attention to the thinking behind the framework. The best part of the class was the three baskets that help determine which elements of Rapid Learning Cycles drive success and therefore must be applied rigorously, and which ones can be left for the team to decide.

The class prepared us very well for explaining Rapid Learning Cycles to teams that will work with it and convincing stakeholders of the logic behind it. The workshop will give you the tools and insights that you need to judge and positively influence the quality of the plans of the teams that you guide. With that the learning on how to successfully apply Rapid Learning Cycles in your company will be accelerated.

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The Details

This Class Includes:

Four half-days of live sessions to go deeply into the Rapid Learning Cycles framework from the perspective of the team's leadership.
Reusable training materials and the license you need to distribute them to your pilot program team so that you can introduce them to the Rapid Learning Cycles framework without reinventing the materials.
Pre-recorded video covering key content that you can review multiple times on your own time to help you get ready for your first real event, so that you can walk into that event well prepared to lead your team through the process.
Templates and checklists for key preparation and follow-up tasks.
Access to our video library of core content for Rapid Learning Cycles to help you prepare new team members for their first event.
One year membership to CardSmith, our recommended tool for Virtual Kickoff Events (in coordination with your company’s videoconferencing solution).

Total Time Commitment: 20 hours over one week

Format: Pre-recorded video + four 3-hour live web conferences

Date / Time Options: We run these classes on an alternating schedule between Regions.

Global Project Leader Certification Workshops for Europe / Eastern Americas:

Live Sessions Tues.-Fri.
for the week of:

20 June

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Schedule for Fall 2022

14:00 - 17:00 CEST
1:00 - 4:00 pm BST
8:00 - 11:00 am EDT
7:00 - 10:00 am CDT
5:30 - 8:30 pm IST

Your Instructor:

Ingvar Hendriks
HIM | Hendriks Interim Management
The Netherlands, Europe

Ingvar has over 20 years of experience improving his clients’ project and innovation management. He is especially interested in managing creative processes and the interactions between marketing and product development.

He has a strong desire to help accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future and circular economy.

Global Project Leader Certification Workshops for Western Americas / Asia-Pacific:

Live Sessions for the week of:

July 11

Check Back for Updated
Schedule for Fall 2022

Mon - Thurs:

2:00 - 5:00 pm PDT
3:00 - 6:00 pm MDT
4:00 - 7:00 pm CDT

Tues - Fri:

9:00 am - Noon NZST
7:00 - 10:00 am AEST

Your Instructors:

John Farnbach
Silver Streak Partners
Denver, Colorado, USA

_{John has deep experience as a product development consultant, with a special emphasis on the product architecture and portfolio management required to maintain flexibility as long as possible when developing products. John worked directly with Preston Smith, author of Developing Products in Half the Time and Flexible Product Development. Preston's work was influential in the development of the Rapid Learning Cycles framework.}

David Stokes
Technology Systems
Auckland, New Zealand

_{David Stokes was our second Rapid Learning Cycles Certified^® Affiliate. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, he has special interests in helping hardware start-ups "scale up" to deliver mature products and in supporting innovation teams. David was instrumental in developing our recommendations for how to use virtual visual planning tools to support the Rapid Learning Cycles framework.}

Global Project Leader
Certification Workshop for Teams

$2,497 Each

Four live half-day sessions to go deep into the RLCf
Updated reusable training materials that you can share with your teams to introduce them to the Rapid Learning Cycles framework.
Private Action Planning Session for your group
Pre-recorded video of key content to review before your first real event
Templates and checklists for key preparation and follow-up tasks
Access to our video library of core content for Rapid Learning Cycles to help you prepare new team members for their first event
One-year membership to virtual planning tools
One additional one-year membership to virtual planning tools for each registration
*To receive the bundle pricing and features, add at least four registrations to your shopping cart*

Global Project Leader
Certification Workshop

$2,997

Four live half-day sessions to go deep into the RLCf
Updated reusable training materials that you can share with your teams to introduce them to the Rapid Learning Cycles framework.
Private Action Planning Session for you
Pre-recorded video of key content to review before your first real event
Templates and checklists for key preparation and follow-up tasks
Access to our video library of core content for Rapid Learning Cycles to help you prepare new team members for their first event
One-year membership to virtual planning tools

Complete Agenda and Resources

Pre-Work:

Introduction
How to Set Up the Environment
Prepare Your Team
Virtual Event Facilitation

Day One:

The Core Hypothesis
Key Decisions

Day Two:

Knowledge Gaps
Prioritizing Knowledge Gaps

Day Three:

The RLCf Event Structure
The Learning Cycles Plan
Wrap-Up and Final Check

Day Four:

Real Time Knowledge Capture
Learning Cycle and Integration Events

Completion

Steps to Wrap Up an Event
The Transition to Late Development
Your Action Plan
Class Wrap Up

Board Templates in CardSmith:

Core Hypothesis (2 layouts)
Key Decisions (3 layouts)
Knowledge Gaps (3 layouts)
Learning Cycles Plan (3 layouts)
Facilitator's Preparation Checklist and Process Flow
Facilitator's In-Event Checklist and Process Flow
Facilitator's Wrap-Up Checklist

Additional Materials:

Virtual Kickoff Event Preparation Workbook and Slides
Face-to-Face Kickoff Event Preparation Workbook and Slides
Project Leader Workbook with all materials for all modules not in the Kickoff Event workbooks.
Communications Templates for Team Members
Simple Virtual Rapid Learning Cycles Plan Template with procedure to populate with data from CardSmith.

The Guarantee

We guarantee results.

We offer ongoing support to our Rapid Learning Cycles Certified® Professionals by phone, email, and through online forums to make sure that you never slow down or get stuck as you use the Rapid Learning Cycles framework for the first time. If you run into any difficulties using the ideas we’ve taught in the workshops, please contact us right away to make an appointment. Chances are, we’ve seen your challenge before, and we can help you overcome it. And if you've given it an honest try, reached out for help and it's still not working, we'll refund your registration fee.

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