Become the Agile Coach your teams actually need

You establish a link between the mindset, skills and practices of agile coaching and your own experience and current level of skill. Use self-awareness to identify a development path for your own growth as an agile coach.

• Definition of Agile Coaching
• Coach as Agile Role Model
• Achieving Essential Mindset Shifts
• Achieving Self-Awareness/Self-Management in the Coach
• Agile Coaching Stance
• Ethical Considerations of Agile Team Coaching

You apply the fundamental professional skills of coaching in an Agile context

• Basics of Using Emotional Intelligence as Underpinning
• Presence
• Listening
• Powerful Questioning
• Giving and Receiving Feedback
• Conducting the coaching conversation

You will describe the arc of a coaching conversation and apply it using a variety of techniques in real-life agile coaching scenarios.

• Topic Identification
• Topic Exploration
• Action Commitment
• Conducting the Coaching Conversation

You apply basic mentoring skills in an Agile context.

• Give Options while Maintaining Presence
• Articulate Expertise
• Mentee at Free Choice

You compare mentoring and coaching and apply mentoring skills with a mentee in real-world Agile scenarios.

• Contrasting Mentoring with Coaching
• Understanding the Individual Change Cycle
• Key Agile Role Transitions
• Identifying and Handling Resistance from Individuals
• Conducting the Mentoring Conversation

You apply basic teaching skills in an Agile context.

• Use Multiple Content Delivery Mechanisms
• Chunk Content into Digestible Pieces
• Check for Understanding
• Create an Environment for Stickiness

ou apply the concepts to teach a short course that conveys aspects of key mindset changes and introduces a key Agile framework.

• Helping Team Members Experience the Agile Mindset Shifts
• PRACTICE : Distinguishing and Articulating at Least One Agile Framework

You will apply the basic skills of team coaching in an Agile context. You will apply tools and techniques for an effective team start-up and for cultivating self-awareness within teams.

• Systems View
• Observation
• Articulate What’s Happening
• Describing a Model of Team Development and Using it in Service of a Team’s Development
• Helping a Team Detect their Own Stage of Development
• PRACTICE : Creating a Team Kickoff / Startup Agenda

You will assess the health of an Agile team and adapt your individual coaching style to facilitate the team’s evolution towards high performance.

• Defining and Identifying High Performance
• Team Development is a Journey, not a Destination
• Assessing the Team as a Healthy System
• Adapt Your Style Based on Team Maturity

You will apply tools and techniques to manage conflict and dysfunction within a team.

• Surfacing and Working with Conflict
• Building Self-Awareness/Self-Management Capacity in the Team
• Creating Awareness that Teams are Human Systems

You describe the common organisational barriers to Agile adoption and classify them to determine the appropriate level to address them (e.g. team, community of practice, tactical leadership, executive leadership).

• Identifying and Capturing Impediments
• Leadership Engagement

You determine and present the best action plan for formalising coaching relationships in internal and external contexts.

• Defining the Agile Coaching “Contract”
• Designing a Coaching Alliance
• Internal vs. External Coaches: Special Considerations for Contracting and Designing Alliances