ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching
Do you want to kick-start or enhance your career as an Agile Coach?
Do you wish to lead your team towards high performance but often get stuck in individual resistance or team dysfunctions?
Do you want to learn and practice agile coaching skills that will help you transition agile teams to better collaboration and superior business results?
What is Agile coaching?
Coaching is often a misunderstood word –it is different from teaching, consulting or mentoring. Coaching creates an environment for the individual and team to grow, an environment of trust, respect and healthy collaboration.
Who needs an Agile Coach?
Agile teams are expected to be self-organized, collaborate with their customer, respond to change in an effective manner, build high quality products and – of course – deliver early and often. But, this is easier said than done. To begin with, Agile teams need an environment go grow – an environment of trust, respect and mutual interest. This is usually where the typical ‘command and control’ type of traditional project management fails to deliver. What the team needs is an Agile Coach who mentors and coaches different Agile roles or a Scrum Master who has acquired the required coaching skills.
The Indian IT industry is slowly realizing the value and need of coaching skills and, as a result, the demand of Agile Coaches is growing fast. Besides a possible need of technical or business expertise, Agile Coaches are expected to possess a unique set of behavior skills like self-awareness and self-management, perspective taking, active listening, powerful questioning, facilitation, etc. After all, coaching is less about delivering results and more about building capability for self-learning and self-growth.
Target Audience
The 3-day ICP-ACC is designed and recommended for:
- Current or aspiring Agile coaches
- Scrum Masters
- Product Owners
- Professionals in a leadership role for Agile projects
- Scaling Agile professionals/Enterprise Agile coaches
About ICP-ACC
The (ICP-ACC) is a 3-day highly interactive classroom program 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.
Deliverable:
On successful completion, each participant will receive
- A certificate titled “ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching” (ICP-ACC).
- 24 Leadership PDUs for PMI Certificate Renewal
- 24 Category B SEUs for CSP goal
Some of the key knowledge areas covered in this training include:
- The Agile Coaching Mindset
- The Coaching Stance
- Professional Coaching Skills
- Coaching Conversations – Coaching for Action
- Mentoring Agile Roles & Transitions
- Coaching the Journey toward High Performance
- Handling Conflict and Dysfunctions within the Team
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Content Outline
This 3-day training program will help 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 for an agile team.
This is a highly interactive program that steps beyond theory and makes good 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 key knowledge areas covered in this training include:
- Coaching Fundamentals
- Teaching vs. Mentoring vs. Coaching
- The Agile Coaching Mindset
- Setting Boundaries for Coaching
- Coaching skillset
- Professional Coaching Skills
- The Coaching Stance
- Responsibilities and Skills of the Coach
- The Coaching process
- Coaching for Potential
- Coaching for Action
- Effective Coaching Conversation
- Mentoring and Coaching Agile roles
- Teaching the Agile Basics
- Understanding Agile roles and the Mindset Shift
- Mentoring Agile Roles & Transitions
- Coaching the Journey toward High Performance
- Understanding Team Development
- Setting up the Team Environment
- Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the Team
- Handling Organizational Impediments
FAQs
Q: What is ICAgile?
A: International Consortium of Agile (ICAgile) is an international organization, headquartered in Virginia, USA. They have worldwide recognition for their training tracks related to Agile. Please find more details here… https://icagile.com/
Q: Who is this certification recommended for?
A: Besides current and aspiring Agile Coaches, this certification training is also recommended for roles that are expected to lead and support an Agile team – Scrum Masters and Managers in an Agile development environment.
Q: Are there any pre-requisites or qualifications required before this training program?
A: While there are no conditional pre-requisites for this training program, it is advised that participants have:
- Good working knowledge of at least one Agile framework
- Agile work experience in a lead role – Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Agile Project Manager, Product Owner, etc.
Please call us if you are not sure if you have relevant work experience for this training.
Q: Besides training, is there any additional evaluation criteria (assessment or interview) to be eligible for the certificate?
A: Instead of formal post-training assessment, this program aims to deliver required learning objectives through an engaging schedule that utilizes classroom discussions, individual exercises, group exercises, role plays, etc. In short, trainer evaluation during the training will be used as the primary criteria for granting the certificate.
Q: What is the eligibility of ICP-ACC certificate?
A: The ICP-ACC certificate comes with a lifetime eligibility. It does not require additional expense to renew every few years.
Q: How much time does it take for the certification process?
A: The certification process is quite smooth at ICAgile. You can expect to receive your certificate within a few days of training, latest by a week.
Q: I am interested in this program. What do I need to study or prepare before I attend the classroom program?
A: Participants are expected to have good working knowledge of Agile and Scrum. If you are new to Agile or Scrum, we recommend you to read through the basics. A working experience as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Owner or an Agile Project Manager would be a definite plus.
Q: How many participants are expected to be in the training?
A: Given the interactive nature of the training, we will be limiting the number of participants to fifteen only, to ensure we don’t have to compromise on quality. If you have failed to register the currently scheduled training, we sincerely request to wait and register for the next training.
Q: Do I need to bring my laptop for this training?
A: Please do not bring your laptops to this training, you do not need them at all. But, it is advised to carry your smartphones as you may want to record some of your role play exercises, so you can review them later for any additional insights.
Q: Is there any alumni or group discounts available for this program?
A: Yes, our alumni discount will also apply to this training, and group discounts will be available for 3+ candidates. Please get in touch with our sales team for details. No discount applicable on earlybird price.
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Saket Bansal is the Founder of iZenBridge, a global education provider dedicated to improving the employability of working professionals. Saket started his professional career as a developer, and from the last eight years, he is in education and consulting. Saket facilitates training on Business Agility, SAFe, Disciplined Agile, Project Management, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Facilitation and Coaching skills. Saket is helping start-ups, mid-size organizations and big corporates in developing high performing teams and achieving business agility.
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