ICAgile Certified Professional Agile Coaching ICP-ACC in Chennai on June 23-25

ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)

This workshop focuses primarily on the mindset, roles, and responsibilities of an Agile Coach. Topics includes differentiating between mentoring, facilitating, consulting, teaching and coaching, and will also provide the understanding of the skills needed to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within an agile team. This workshop introduces participants to team development concepts around starting and growing teams while paying attention to team dynamics and the surrounding organizational system. A key part of this certification focuses on developing an understanding of the Professional Agile Coaching skillset and the value of honing these skills to serve individuals on an agile team.

Learn by doing

You will be working on Agile coaching exercises, Agile coaching games and coaching simulations during the entire duration of the course. Instead of just walking through the concepts, we will help your hands-on understanding of each individual concepts. While concepts taught might get lost after the workshop is complete, concepts practiced through games and simulations never goes lost. Learning by doing is the better of way of learning.

Learn Continuously @ PlayScrum meetup

We believe in continuous learning. It’s difficult to solve every problem in three days. As you start implementing Agile Coaching concepts and practices in workplace, you will certainly face challenges and you need help to solve those. Our workshop doesn’t end in two days and you continue to learn from our PlayScrum meetups. Our PlayScrum meetups happen on all major cities once in a month.

Why Agile Coaching?

Agile Coaching is more about who you are and what behaviours you model than it is about specific technique or idea you bring to the team. Agile Coaching helps building a team that admits mistakes, reinforces shared values, eliminate dysfunctions, constantly inspect and adapt. An effective Agile Coach can help teams become continuous improvement, self-organizing and high performance. Agile Coaches possess skills such as self-management, self-awareness, facilitation, inquiry, Emotional intelligence, powerful questioning, etc…

On Successful completion, you’ll receive

ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) certification

ICAgile membership

21 PDUs towards any PMI Credential

21 SEUs towards Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)

Hard copy of the material used in the class - Workbook

After successful completion, you’ll know

Difference between Coaching, Mentoring, Teaching and Consulting

Roles and Responsibilities of an Agile Coach

How to build Self-Organizing and High Performance teams

How to handle Conflict Management and Team Dysfunctions

How to have an effective Coaching Conversation

Agile Coaching Mindset

How to help Geographically Distributed Teams create Working Agreements

How to Coach Agile Leaders and become Enterprise Agile Coach

Learning Objectives

Agile Coaching Mindset

Definition of Agile Coaching

Coach as Role model

Servant Leadership

Key Mindset shifts

Responsibilities and Skills of the Coach

Roles and Responsibilities of the Coach

Skills of the Coach

Achieving Self-Awareness and Self-Management in Coaching

Setting Boundaries for Coaching

Internal Vs External Coaches

Defining the Coaching Contract

Designing a Coaching Alliance

The Coaching Stance

Maintaining Neutrality

Self-Awareness and Self-Management

Holding the Client’s Agenda

No Colluding

Coaching-Conversation/Coaching for Action

Issue Identification

Issue exploration

Action commitment

Professional Coaching Skills

Presence

Powerful Questioning

Giving and Receiving Feedback

Basics of using Emotional Intelligence

Conducting the Coaching Conversation

Conducting the Coaching Conversation

Mentoring Agile Roles and Transitions

Mentoring and Mentoring Practices

Mentoring and Coaching the Roles in Agile

Understanding the Individual Change Cycle

Mentoring and Coaching the Key Transitions for the Roles in Agile

Identifying and Handling Resistance from Individuals

Mentoring Vs. Coaching

Mentoring Vs. Coaching

Teaching the Agile Basics and Mindset Shift

Modes of Teaching

Helping the Team Members experience Agile Mindset Shifts

Distinguishing and Articulating at least one Agile Framework

Understanding Team Development

Understand a model of Team Development

Detecting a Team’s stage of development

Helping a Team move up the Development Curve

Helping a Team choose to be a Team

Setting up the Team Environment

Helping Teams to know themselves

Helping Teams Create their Culture and Vision

Creating Team Agreements and Ground Rules

Setting up the Work Environment

Accommodating the Team’s Geographical Relationship

Creating a Team Kick-off / Start-up Agenda

Creating a Team Kick-off / Start-up Agenda

Characteristics of an Agile Team

Trusting

Propelled by Shared Purpose

Shared Leadership

Continuously Seeking to Improve

Self-Organizing

Coaching the Journey toward High Performance

Defining and Identifying High Performance

Team Vs. Group

Team Development is a journey, not a destination

Assessing the Team as a Healthy System

Strategies for dealing with diverse types of team

Coach’s role in a Self-Organizing Team

Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the Team

Identifying and Managing ‘Group Think’

Identifying and Surfacing Conflict

Building Self-Awareness / Self-Management capacity in the team

Handling Organizational Impediments

Identifying and Capturing Impediments

Leadership Engagement

Planning to Facilitate a Conflict in a team

Planning to Facilitate a Conflict in a Team