2 Days Classroom SessionFriday, February 23rd & Saturday, February
24th
8:30am to 4:30pm
Overview
The Agile Coaching Workshop is classroom training program that is
unique and one-of-a-kind training that focuses on both the areas of
“being agile” and “doing agile” of Agile Coaching. This is a
highly interactive workshop that makes ample use of discussions and
exercises to help participants hone essential coaching skills like
self-awareness, coaching stance, mentoring, facilitation, active
listening, powerful questioning and coaching for action. The course
explores real world scenarios/situations and challenges, and help you
devise powerful solutions to them. It will help the learner
differentiate between and among teaching, mentoring, facilitating,
consulting, and coaching, and will help gain the skills needed to
create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy
conflict resolution within an agile team.
Whether the coach is internal or external to the organization, agile
coaching covers a broad spectrum of teaching, mentoring, problem
solving, leadership, team-building and mastery of skills and
knowledge.
Agile Coaches must challenge organizations to change culture —
establishing new paradigms — which permit agile-lean thinking and
quickly deliver value. A coach must be competent, professional and
ethical — having business and technical knowledge and an
understanding of change and the impact it has on individuals and
organizations. Few of the elements participants would learn during the
workshop:
* The various roles, skillsets and disciplines of an Agile coach –
coaching, facilitating, mentoring, teaching and how to develop "your
style," moving in and out of those roles while remaining flexible,
open and confident.
* The philosophy behind servant leadership and practices and
techniques to enable you to become a true servant leader; putting the
needs of others first to facilitate the development of high
performance teams.
* Agile Coach thinking – the mindset shift necessary to help you,
and others, focus on team improvement, value-driven delivery, and
leveraging constraints while living in the present moment, staying
curious, innovative and having fun.
* Ways to establish mutual trust allowing you to create a safe,
supportive environment in which your team can excel.
* Active listening and powerful questioning techniques utilized to
leverage your ability to focus on what is being said and maximizing
communication and collaboration through seeking and receiving
information.
This 2.5-days course takes place over 2 days, including 4-6 hours of
preparation work by course participants prior to start of the
workshop.
Who should attend? Who will benefit from the workshop?
This course is designed for:
* Project, Program, and Portfolio Professionals who aspire to the
role of Agile Coach.
* Experienced Scrum Masters, Agile Project/Program Managers or
Iteration Managers who want a more comprehensive understanding of the
complete range of business and Agile coaching skills.
* Agile coaches who want to enhance and improve their professional
skills as Agilists and professional coaches.
* Coaches who wish to increase the ability to break through
seemingly insurmountable problems with their teams.
* Agile managers, Product Owners and others wishing to access a
broader range of skills in working with teams.
* Skilled coaches who wishes to polish your skills and learn a few
new tricks and techniques.
* Functional managers or Scrum Masters with some experience as an
Agile coach, but Agile seems like it is not working for your teams.
* Someone trying to become a Certified Scrum Coach or ICAgile
Certified Expert in Agile Coaching.
* Someone coaching or mentoring Agile teams, but you seem to be
caught in a rut or just going through the motions and not making
progress.
Pre-Requisites
This is an intermediate level workshop. Participants should have
completed basic Agile training - such as Intro to Agile course, a
Certified Scrum Master course, or an equivalent (such as
organization’s Internal Training program or have completed 6 to 12
months of working with Agile teams. The class prepares you to act as a
leader on agile teams and leave with ideas for helping them as soon as
you get back. If you are unsure if you meet this prerequisite, you
should give me a call and ask.
Course Outline
1. The Agile Coach and Agile Coaching
2. The Coach as Professional Coach
3. The Coach as Facilitator
4. The Coach as Mentor
5. The Coach as Teacher
Outcomes this workshop will produce
Mastering agile coaching skills will require both time and practice,
this workshop will allow you to:
* Understand and utilize the key skill areas and knowledge areas
applied by the best agile coaches.
* Create healthy teams that are resilient, creative, resourceful and
resonant.
* Listen fully and ask essential, powerful questions that open up
new possibilities and propel people into action.
* Clearly ascertain the distinction between coaching and mentoring
and know when to apply each most successfully in any given situation.
* Understand how to address the dysfunctional approaches to conflict
teams often develop.
* Coach and mentor people through all kinds of change, especially
the change required to occupy agile roles fully.
* See the broader organizational context more clearly and determine
the best interventions, and your best actions, to positively affect
it.
* You’ll walk away from the course with your personal coaching
improvement backlog – a tangible plan you can use to thoughtfully
improve your coaching when you’re back on the job.
* You’ll have many new things to try with your teams and you will
probably depart with a few provocative ideas to chew on (in fact,
maybe wrangle with for a while). All of these outcomes add up to your
ability to become the excellent agile coach your teams and
organization needs.
Continue Education Credits
Participants of this workshop is eligible to claim Continue Education
Credits towards one or more of the following Institutions:
* PMI (PDU): This workshop meets the criteria of PMI’s Leadership
PDUs (PDU-L), Strategic PDUs (PDU-S), and Technical PDUs (PDU-T) for
various PMI credentials. Technical PDUs are available for the
following PMI credentials: ACP, PBA, PfMP, PMP, PgMP, RMP, and SP.
Total of 15 PDUs are eligible.
PMI
ACP
PMP/PgMP
L
S
12
12
2
1
T-PDUs
T-PDUs
L-PDUs
S-PDUs
* SCRUM ALLIANCE (SEU): This WORKSHOP MEETS THE CRITERIA TOWARDS SEU
REQUIREMENTS FOR SCRUM ALLIANCE’s CSP (Certified SCRUM PROFESSIONAL)
continued education requirements. Total of 15 SEUs are eligible.
* IIBA (CDU): This workshop meets the criteria towards CDU
requirements for CCBA and CBAP certifications. Total of 15 CDUs are
eligible.
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