Agile Team Facilitation

To be effective in Agile Coaching, you need to be able to facilitate groups of people towards outcomes, be it in meetings, workshops or ceremonies.

Understanding the art and science of facilitation, the numerous techniques available, what to use and when and even the group dynamics is essential.

Elabor8's Agile Team Facilitator course has been designed to provide individuals with a wide range of facilitation skills and practical tools, to help design and deliver effective and efficient facilitation in the context of Agile team ceremonies.

This course teaches the mindset, tools and techniques that individuals need to be an effective facilitator.

If you're looking for lecture based training then this is not the course for you!

This is an immersive, hands-on course delivered by trainers who have years of experience across business, operations and IT. Participants apply theory to activities throughout the course with a constant focus on the customer, collaboration, delivering value, learning and continuous improvement.

Course Structure

• The program is run over 6 weeks.  A 2 hour session will be run each week with the trainer to introduce key concepts.
• In addition to this students will have access to online learning modules to enable the application of learnings to a particular problem within their context.  There is a requirement of approx. 1 hour learning time outside of class. 
• 30 minute weekly Coaching sessions are also available throughout the course duration. 
• Certification is granted based on active participation in the course, completion of assignments and online quizzes. 

Your challenges, our guidance

Attendees will be encouraged to bring a real life problem to apply their learnings to. We aim to create an environment where students can apply knowledge to real life challenges, resulting in their ability to build their experience.

Each week a small group of learners will be given an opportunity to play back a real life facilitation experience.  With a focus on pitfalls and challenges, they’ll leverage techniques and approaches to enhance their chances of successfully achieving their outcomes.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the importance of the facilitation mindset, and its benefits within Agile teams
• Explore facilitation skills, tools and techniques so that you can create your own team facilitation approach
• Learn how to design and conduct a facilitation session to enable full participation that drives outcomes
• Deep dive into Retrospectives and Daily Scrum in order to design facilitation approaches to avoid common pitfalls
• Practice facilitating a range of Agile ceremonies and receive feedback from your trainer and peer
• Learn to adapt your facilitation approach to cater for a distributed / remote team and/or differing levels of team maturity

Topics covered

• The Agile Team Facilitator Mindset
• Foundational Facilitation skills and practices
• Conducting a Facilitated Session, maintaining neutrality
• Feedback and Retros
• Facilitating events in different team maturity levels and environments

You'll also receive

• Information session to outline the structure and mechanics of the course via video conferencing
• 6 x 2 hour sessions delivered once a week for 6 weeks via video conferencing
• Optional 30 minute weekly coaching sessions with your experienced agile trainer via video conferencing
• Trainers with real world Agile and Facilitation experience
  
• Online self paced learning modules to imbed and expand your learning
• ICAgile Professional Certificate Agile Team Facilitator certification
• Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs
  
• Electronic copy of the course materials