Coaching Agile Transformations

As coach how can you become a true catalyst for change?

In this course, you’ll learn to hold the tension between what an organisation wants, what the individuals within the organisation want, and what the agile values and principles call for. 

This course will build on your existing team coaching skills and extend them to the enterprise. You’ll leverage teaching, mentoring, coaching, and facilitation skills to help the organisation move from their current reality to the agile vision for the future. You’ll gain an understanding of how to think through and understand the implications of changes on team members as well as the collective. You will also be able to generate an agile change plan with a focus on communication, education, and multi-level engagement.

You'll gain

The ICAgile Certified Professional, Coaching Agile Transformations accreditation is granted on the successful completion of this course. This certification is part of the ICAgile Enterprise Coaching Track along with our Enterprise Agile Coaching course. We offer the complete ICAgile Enterprise Agile Coaching Track for those looking to become an ICAgile Certified Expert in Enterprise Coaching (ICE-EC).

This course will contribute 21 PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs) towards your chosen certification (11 Ways of Working, 7 Power Skills and 3 Business Acumen).

You'll learn

During this course you'll learn about:

• The skills and competencies of the enterprise agile coach from the agile team coach
• Self-assessing strengths and skill gaps to determine opportunities for improvement
• The journey of your own self-development and what limitations you are or have addressed
• The ethical limitations of the role of an enterprise agile coach and how to address any challenges you may encounter
• How change impacts people and organisations leveraging several change models for comparison
• The tensions that exist between organisation, individual contributor, and coach and how these tensions affect what is possible
• Preparing an organisational change strategy based in agile values and principles
• Identifying likely organisational change impediments and describe techniques for addressing those impediments
• Preparing a transition plan covering communication, education and engagement at multiple levels for a real-world or case study or organisation.

Great for

This course is intended to Agile Coaches and Agile Team Facilitators who want to build their skills and awareness beyond the team. It is also applicable to anyone with a strong background in change management, organisational design, or enterprise coaching with an interest in adding agile perspectives to their work.

 

You'll need

This is an advanced agile course designed for agile coaches and managers who are practicing coaching, mentoring, teaching, and facilitation skills at the program, portfolio, and enterprise levels. Completion of our Agile Coaching, Agile Team Facilitation or equivalent experience and skills is required.