“Interesting, Enlightening, Enjoyable course, giving me much to think about” – Delivery Manager

Agile and Lean work when there is deep respect and consideration for people. However, often the behaviours we experience and sometimes exhibit at work are not in alignment with our own goals and the goals of the organisation. This is what makes achieving agility so hard.

Professional coaching helps individuals and teams increase transparency of their own internal and external blockers that stop them from being successful in achieving their goals.

During this 3-day highly interactive ICAgile-Certified coaching course you will learn specific professional coaching skills required to help others who are moving towards Agile ways of working. You will also gain the understanding and skills required to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within an agile team and be exposed to team dynamics and the role the wider organisation system plays.

What you will learn:

• What an agile coach is and how this role plays out with your teams.
• An introduction to neuroscience and why it’s important as coaches we understand how the brain reacts when we’re stressed.
• Gain fundamental professional coaching skills and insights, like what powerful questions are and how to use them effectively and one of the important tools for team and personal growth – giving and receiving feedback.
• How to create a psychologically safe environment for your teams by looking at how to set up the team environment and help the team to know themselves and create a shared culture and vision.
• How to conduct the coaching conversation including techniques to improve the way you listen, brainstorm and help your client be effective with actions.
• Why it’s important to design a coaching contract with your team and stakeholders.
• How to coach and mentor through different kinds of change.
• How to coach toward high-performance and gain effective skills in encouraging team collaboration and trust and how to resolve conflicts.

Agenda:

1. Team Emotional Intelligence
2. Defining agile coaching
3. The agile mindset
4. Roles and responsibilities
5. Achieving self-awareness
6. Coaching principles, contract & patterns
7. Neuroscience and coaching
8. Coaching vs Mentoring
9. Training & Facilitation
10. Conducting the Coaching Conversation
11. Goal & action based outcomes
12. Presence & Listening
13. Giving & receiving feedback
14. Powerful questions
15. Creating a psychologically safe environment
16. Understanding team development
17. Setting up the team environment
18. Creating a team kickoff / startup agenda
19. Characteristics of an agile team
20. Coaching the journey towards high-performance
21. Handling organisational Impediments
22. Planning to facilitate a conflict within a team
23. Putting it into practice

Our Trainers

Simon Powers

Simon Powers has over 20 years’ experience helping very large organisations to thrive in the market and to be better places to work. He works with the board of directors or senior managers to transform the way that they see themselves, each other, and their organisations. The results are better organisational design, better processes, more engaged staff, and an organisation that is customer focused and more successful. He has been using Agile and Lean for the last 14 years, initially within IT, but in the last 5 years across the entire organisation. Simon founded Adventures with Agile (AWA), a global community of practice for organisational change in 2014. He founded the AWA consultancy in 2015, and his experience comes from both his own direct experience and through the consultants that work for Adventures with Agile working across many of AWA’s clients.

Simon has hosted and trained with some of the world’s foremost thought leaders including Craig Larman and Bas Vodde (creators of Large Scale Scrum), Lyssa Adkins (Coaching Agile Teams), Scott Ambler and Mark Lines (Disciplined Agile), Sharon Bowman (Training from the Back of the Room), David Snowden (Cynefin and Sense maker), David Anderson (Kanban), Don Reinertsen (Lean Product Delivery), Michael Sahota (Leadership), Alistair Cockburn (Heart of Agile), and many others. Simon has won awards for the person who has done the most to promote agile globally in 2016, the most popular agile conference speaker in 2016, and was part of the program that won the best implementation of agile in the UK public sector in 2015. He has lectured at university, spoken at conferences all over the world, writes for the AWA blog, and has released multiple whitepapers. He is currently writing a book on Enterprise Agility.

Simon has multiple qualifications in the field of agile, coaching, and lean, and regularly teaches and coaches others in the same.

• Certified ICAgile Agility in Enterprise Trainer
• ICAgile Certified Professional - Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT)
• Sits on the Disciplined Agile Consortium Board
• Certified Agile Leader (Scrum Alliance)
• Certified Agile Coach (ICAgile)
• Certified Trainer from the BACK of the Room
• Certified Disciplined Agile Black Belt Practitioner and Trainer
• Certified LeSS Practitioner (Large Scale Scrum)
• Certified SAFe Program Consultant
• Barefoot Professional Coaching Certificate
• Winner of the most popular Agile Conference Speaker 2016
• Winner of Person Who Has Done Most to Promote Agile Globally 2016
• Winner of Best Implementation of the Agile Transformation in Public Sector 2015

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