Agile Coaching

A coach's primary goal is to enhance their client's awareness of practice and behaviour — enabling and empowering the client to realise objectives that may be just outside of their reach. 
Through thoughtful and deliberate engagement, the coach strives to enhance, in a measurable and sustainable fashion, team practices in order to provide focus on the business goals and objectives of the team and organization. Whether the coach is internal or external to the organization, coaching covers a broad spectrum of teaching, mentoring, problem-solving, planning, leadership, team-building, and mastery of skills and knowledge.
Coaches must challenge organisations to change the 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 organisations. This course is designed to teach, practice, and reinforce the core coaching competencies of the Agile coach, enabling the Agile coach to succeed at reaching agreed-upon team and organisational outcomes.

Learning Objectives

• Define Agile coaching and the set of competencies and practices associated with being a coach.
• Develop ethical and professional coaching standards and agreements and how to apply them in your coaching engagements with teams and organisations.
• Develop "your style" of coaching, facilitating, mentoring, and teaching
• Become a true servant leader; putting the needs of others first to facilitate the development of high-performance teams.
• Adopt 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.
• Establish mutual trust within your organisation.

Topics covered

• The Agile Coach
• The Coach as Facilitator
• The Coach as Professional Coach
• The Coach as Mentor
• The Coach as Teacher
• The Team Coach

You'll also receive

• Trainers with real world Agile and Product experience
• ICAgile Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
• Electronic copy of the course materials