IBFIT13: ICAGILE - AGILE COACHING-P220222RHN
ICAgile - Agile Coaching-P220222RHN
Course Duration
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for Agile Coaches or aspiring coaches with a passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn and practice the art of facilitation, professional coaching, mentoring and teaching in service of various Agile teams. Other relevant roles include Scrum Masters, Iteration Managers, Agile Project Managers and Leaders. Although it is not a formal prerequisite, this certification is best pursued after Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF).
Course Overview
NTUC LearningHub Course Code: IBFIT13
IBF Programme Code: P200524FLB
This workshop focuses primarily on the mindset, roles, and responsibilities of an Agile Coach. In this 3-day ICAgile certified workshop, attendees will learn to differentiate between and among mentoring, facilitating, professional coaching and teaching. Attendees will be introduced to foundational team coaching skills and team development concepts for starting and growing teams while focusing on teams and organisations as human systems.
Participation in this highly interactive workshop will give attendees the necessary skills to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within an agile team. A key learning objective of this workshop is to develop an understanding of the professional coaching skillset and the value of honing these skills to serve individuals on an agile team.
Next available schedule
Course Objectives
- Explore the path of Agile coaching and how this role plays out with your teams
- A preview of EQ, why it is important and understand how the brain reacts when we are stressed
- Gain insights into fundamental professional coaching and mentoring skills
- Learn and explore effective conflict resolution techniques
- Acquire the use of powerful questions are practice its effectiveness
- Experience a coaching conversation and get instant feedback for immediate improvement
- Use techniques for outcome-driven coaching for high performing Teams
- Contrast the dynamic duo of coaching & mentoring and explore techniques to use either or both in relevant situations.
- Knowing how to choose between different roles at the right moment (mentor, facilitator, consultant, trainer, coach etc.)
- Receive the ACC-ICP certification delivered by ICAgile
Pre-requisites
Highly encouraged to have these relevant agile certifications:
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Certified Agile Project Manager
- Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
Course Outline
Day 1
AM Session:
Introduction to the discipline of Coaching
- Becoming an Agile Coach
- Agile coaching stance
The Coach as an Agile Role Model
- Achieving essential changes in mindset
- Coaching posture & behaviour
- Self-awareness & self-management
- Emotional intelligence and presence of mind
PM Session:
Skills of a Professional Agile Coach
- Active listening and powerful questioning
- Cultivating presence
- Constructive feedback
At the end of Day 1, attendees will have achieved the following Learning Outcomes:
- The role of the Agile Coach in a business
- Difference between Coaching vs Mentoring vs Teaching vs facilitation
- Assessing ones ability to serve the Team
- How to develop an Agile mindset
- Knowledge of the desired internal wiring of a successful Agile Coach
- Self-assess whether you are a commanding ruler
- How to use EQ to coach & serve the Team members
- How to be an active listener
- Skill of powerful questioning
- Be mindfully present
- Feedback to help
- Identifying and addressing issues
Day 2
AM Session:
The Coaching Arc
- Setting up for coaching conversation
- Creating a psychologically safe environment
- Exploration of the subject and its solutions
- Commitment & action plan
Conducting an effective coaching conversation
The role of an Agile Coach as a Mentor
Skills of an Agile Mentor
- Understanding a Teams coaching cycle
- Articulating expertise
- Identify resistance to change
Conducting a mentoring conversation
- Giving advice while maintaining presence
- Providing the mentee options to choose from
PM Session:
The role of an Agile Coach as a Teacher
An insight into various teaching methods
Skills of an Agile Teacher
- Act of dividing content into digestible pieces
- Check for understanding
- Create an environment that fosters learning
Conduct a Teaching lab
At the end of Day 2, attendees will have achieved the following Learning Outcomes:
- How to identify and explore underlying issues (usually deeper than the coachee presents)
- Help the coachee(s) choose a course of action
- Help the coachee(s) take responsibility of their chosen actions
- Practiced a coaching conversation on a practical workplace scenario
- Contrast between coaching and mentoring
- Model of a Teams and individuals working cycle and opportunities for coaching & mentoring
- How to articulate expertise as a mentor
- How to handle resistance from individuals
- Give advice while maintaining presence
- How to balance between giving direct advice vs helping mentee to choose a course of action
- Methods to honour mentees decisions
- Multiple content delivery mechanisms
- Chunk content into digestible pieces
- Techniques to check for understanding
- Strategies that promote lesson stickiness
- Articulate at least one Agile framework including its associated roles, common practices, values and principles
Day 3
AM Session:
Team as a system
- Team development models
- Team health assessments
Coaching the journey towards high-performance
- Define, identify & target high performance
- Awareness of various Stages of Team development
- Reinforcement of self-awareness & self-management culture
PM Session:
Internal vs External Coaches
Getting started as an Agile Coach
- Define the coaching contract
- Design a Coaching alliance
Activities and Role-play as a Coach based on real workplace examples to gain confidence as a Coach and to apply the learnings from the workshop
At the end of Day 3, attendees will have achieved the following Learning Outcomes
- Team as a human system
- Understanding of pillars of organisational agility and how to identify systemic challenges
- How to enhance the teams self-sufficiency by consciously choosing your leadership range
- Techniques to Coach a high-performance team
- Team building and collaboration activities
- Coaching contract vs Coaching alliance
- Defining the coaching contract
- The Coaching Alliance
- Special Considerations for Contracting and Designing Alliances
- Mentoring Agile roles and transitions
- Create your personal coaching improvement backlog
- Create blueprint of change
Certificate Obtained and Conferred by
After completing this 3-days workshop and successfully demonstrating the understanding of all Learning Outcomes, participants receive the ICAgile Certified Professional Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) personal certificate which is recognised worldwide. The certification is governed and maintained by ICAgile.
The following shows the ICAgile track for Agile Coaching. The ICAgile – Agile Coaching course is underlined in red:
The following video shows success stories of those who have successfully completed the full ICAgile – Agile Coaching track.
Additional Details
Medium of Instruction & Trainer
Medium of Instruction: English
Price
| ourse commencing after 1 July 2021 | |||
| (90% funded) | |||
| Course Fee | |||
| Full Course Fee | $3,500.00 | ||
| Full Course Fee with GST | $3,745.00 | ||
| Nett amount after Funding | |||
| Singapore Citizens & Permanent Residents** | Individual | $374.50* | |
| Corporate | $595.00* |
* includes 7% GST
Eligibility
Individual:
- Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents physically based in Singapore
- Trainee has to complete 100% attendance and pass all relevant assessments and examinations
- NTUC LearningHub reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from trainee if he/she did not meet the eligibility criteria
Corporate:
- Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents physically based in Singapore
- Company must be Financial Institutions regulated by MAS (licensed or exempted from licensing). FinTech firms must be certified by Singapore FinTech Association (SFA)
- Trainee has to complete 100% attendance and pass all relevant assessments and examinations
- Eligible company-sponsored trainees will be able to clock CPD hours upon successful course completion
Class Allowance
For courses commencing before 1st January 2021:
- Singapore Citizens and permanent residents of all ages will receive course fee subsidies of 95%
- Training Allowance – $10 per training and assessment hour (Self-sponsored individuals), $15 per training and assessment hour (Sponsoring companies in Finance and Banking)
For all courses commencing after 1st January 2021 and before 1st July 2021 :
- Singapore Citizens and permanent residents of all ages will receive course fee subsidies of 95%
- Training Allowance – $15 per training and assessment hour (Sponsoring companies in Finance and Banking)
For all courses commencing after 1st July 2021 and before 31st December 2021 :
- Singapore Citizens and permanent residents of all ages will receive course fee subsidies of 90%
- The course fee for individuals and corporates are shown in the pricing table.
Terms and conditions apply. NTUC LearningHub reserve the right to make changes or improvements to any of the products described in this document without prior notice.
Prices are subject to other LHUB miscellaneous fees.
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