Overview
From facilitation to leadership, learn the many skills and competencies essential to agile coaching and set a course for professional growth.
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites are required for this course. Familiarity with Scrum or other agile methodologies is recommended to maximise understanding.
Target Audience
This course is designed for:
- Anyone interested in coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and guiding teams to become more agile
- Product owners and scrum masters who want to add to their coaching toolkit
- Agile practitioners who want to become agile coaches or leverage the skills of an agile coach in a different role
- Managers and leaders in complex environments who want to increase agility at their organization.
- People who want to leverage agile coaching skills in their role in order to cultivate effective, innovative, adaptable teams and resilient organizations.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Define agile coaching
- Describe the various stances an agile coach may take
- Use the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel to assess their competencies and plan their development as agile coaches.
- Demonstrate awareness of their coaching presence and apply techniques to foster trust, mindfulness, and active listening.
- Reflect on their emotional intelligence, values, and biases to enhance their resilience and adaptability in coaching contexts.
- Apply ethical principles to coaching scenarios and manage boundaries and conflicts of interest responsibly.
Course Outline
Module 1: What is Agile Coaching?
In this module, you will be introduced to agile coaching and follow an agile coach to help guide a company through their agile transformation.
Module 2: The Agile Coach
In this module, you will learn how agile coaching is rooted in agile practices and discover the agile coach’s role in a transformation.
Module 3: Navigating the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel
In this module, you will learn about a tool that can help you navigate the landscape of agile coaching and improve your practice.
Module 4: The Coaching Presence
In this module, you will see an agile coach demonstrate the key elements of a coaching presence and discover how that unlocks a safe space for the team to change.
Module 5: Self-Mastery
In this module, you will explore the heart of agile coaching: self-mastery. You’ll discover how to develop emotional intelligence and the importance of resilience and self-care.
Module 6: Ethical Considerations in Agile Coaching
In this module, you will explore essential ethical considerations for all agile coaches and how to navigate maintaining your integrity in your agile coaching practice.
Module 7: Case Study
In this module, you will reconvene with the InsureSwift team after a year has passed, and discover new coaching challenges for Rae and Janelle
Exams and Assessments
There are no formal exams for this micro-credential.
Hands-On Learning
- Live, instructor-led sessions with Scrum Alliance-accredited trainers
- Collaborative workshops and scenario-based exercises
- Real-world examples
- Templates and practical guides for immediate application
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