Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)

Do you have the facilitation skills needed to support a working group to collaborate effectively and reach their desired outcomes?

By attending the Agile Team Facilitator (ATF) course, you will explore what it means to embrace a facilitation mindset and how you can foster the perfect conditions for creativity, collaboration and innovation. Attendees will discover a diverse range of models, tools, and visual techniques aimed at enriching their facilitation skills. Through engaging in fun, interactive exercises, participants will gain hands-on experience and receive valuable feedback to further refine their facilitation stance.

Completing this course is also a way forward on the path for those who want to complete the Agile Team Coaching Track with ICAgile.

Learning Objectives

• Discover what a facilitator is and what they do

• Practice the mindset of a neutral facilitator

• Learn how to facilitate teams through conflict

• Understand the needs of different teams

• Gain social and self-awareness by exploring Emotional Intelligence

• Gain visual thinking, active listening and storytelling skills

• Apply the skillset before, during, and after a facilitation event

Topics covered

• Throughout the course all participants will have the opportunity to demonstrate their facilitation skills in a safe and fun environment, offering opportunities for feedback and growth.

• Setting the stage and defining facilitation- You will explore the purpose of facilitation, the facilitation mindset and core competencies.

• Understanding Group’s Context and Needs – You will be introduced to the process of facilitation and how to set conditions that foster Psychological Safety.

• Agile Framework Values and Principles- You will explore the Scrum Events and how effective facilitation can lead to successful outcomes.

• The Orientation of the Facilitator-From the Front- You will discover the benefits of divergent, emergent and convergent techniques before embarking on visual thinking and storytelling exercises designed to enhance your communication skills.

• The Orientation of the Facilitator-From the Back- You will be introduced to active listening techniques that will enhance your ability to understand and respond to the needs of a group, as well as how to receive and deliver feedback constructively.

• The Orientation of the Facilitator-From the Inside- You will be presented with the 4 dimensions of Emotional Intelligence, how to reflect on your emotions, as well as recognize and influence the emotions of those around you.

• Co-Facilitation- You will be introduced to the blend of practical and learning-enriching benefits co-facilitation can offer in the delivery of effective facilitation.

• Facilitating through Conflict- You will gain insight into group dynamics and learn strategies to constructively manage conflicts that may arise during facilitation sessions.

• Forwarding the action- You will identify effective ways to act on and implement agreed-upon outcomes, including the need to retrospect and identify measures for success

You'll also receive

• Trainers with real world Agile and Facilitation experience
• ICAgile Professional Certificate Agile Team Facilitator certification
• Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs
  
• Electronic copy of the course materials