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ICAgile - ICP-ACC Agile Coaching
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Apply an agile coaching mindset to strengthen team effectiveness and performance.
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Use coaching techniques, active listening and powerful questioning to empower teams and drive accountability.
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Select and apply coaching, mentoring, facilitation or training approaches to suit team needs and situations.
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Guide teams through challenges, change and role transitions while maintaining ownership and engagement.
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Facilitate collaborative problem-solving to identify issues, explore options and agree actions.
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Use emotional intelligence, neutral observations and strong coaching presence to support team development.
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Build effective coaching alliances, manage resistance and foster productive working relationships.
Overview
Off the shelf (OTS)
This course is designed for:
• Agile coaches looking to strengthen their professional coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and training skills
• Scrum Masters, Agile team leads, and delivery managers who support team development and collaboration
• Agile practitioners responsible for helping teams navigate change, resolve conflict, and improve performance
• Leaders and change professionals who want to better understand how to work with teams and organisations as human systems
Prerequisites
Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Release Train Engineers, Agile Project Managers who are qualified agilists, or have a solid knowledge of Agile. Aspiring coaches with a passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn and practice facilitation, professional coaching, mentoring, and teaching in service of Agile teams. N.B. A good working knowledge of Agile is essential.
Overview
Looking to build up your Agile coaching skills? This certification course enables you to create a flexible and trusting environment for Agile teams to work collaboratively and achieve healthy conflict resolution. It focuses on developing an understanding of the fundamentals of the professional coaching skill set and when to apply coaching, mentoring, facilitation or training to serve individuals and teams in agile contexts. You will learn to understand and work with teams and your organisation as human systems.
The course is highly interactive and blends practical theory, tools and techniques with workshopping and using your own case studies to immediately relate what you are learning to your agile teams at work.
Course outline
• Development in the Agile Coaching Discipline
• Setting Boundaries for Agile Coaching
• Professional Coaching
• Coach as Mentor
• Coach as Teacher
• Coach as Team Coach
Certification
You will be assessed by your coach/trainer throughout the course on the following:
Pre-course preparation – Case Study
• You will be asked to bring a case study to work on at different points during the course. It will need to demonstrate your knowledge of the team and organisational aspects of what is helping or hindering agility. We will send you a case study template to help you prepare.
During the course:
• Your contributions to activities, discussions and feedback to the cohort – demonstrating the learning outcomes
• Your ability to demonstrate Scrum Values – Commitment, Openness, Courage, Respect and Focus during activities throughout the course.
Delivery method
Virtual
Course duration
21 hours
Competency level
Working