ICAgile Coaching Certification (ICP-ACC) in India

The following is the official agenda for the training that is covered during the three days :

1. The mindset for Agile coaching :

• Definition of Agile Coaching
• Coach as Role model.
• Servant Leadership.
• Key Mindset shifts.

2. How to Set Boundaries for Coaching :

• Internal Vs External Coaches
• Defining the Coaching Contract
• Designing a Coaching Alliance

3. Coaching-Conversation/Coaching for Action:

• Issue Identification
• Issue exploration
• Action commitment

4. Organizing the Coaching Conversation:

• Conducting the Coaching Conversation

5. Mentoring Vs. Coaching :

• Mentoring Vs. Coaching

6. Understanding Team Development :

• Understand a model of Team Development
• Detecting a Team’s stage of development
• Helping a Team move up the Development Curve
• Helping a Team choose to be a Team

7. Creating a Team Kick-off / Start-up Agenda :

• Creating a Team Kick-off / Start-up Agenda

8. Coaching the Journey towards High Performance :

• Defining and Identifying High Performance
• Team Vs. Group
• Team Development is a journey, not a destination
• Assessing the Team as a Healthy System
• Strategies for dealing with diverse types of team
• Coach’s role in a Self-Organizing Team

9. Understanding Team Development :

• Understand a model of Team Development
• Detecting a Team’s stage of development
• Helping a Team move up the Development Curve
• Helping a Team choose to be a Team

10. Handling Organizational Impediments :

• Identifying and Capturing Impediments
• Leadership Engagement

11. Responsibilities and Skills of the Coach :

• Roles and Responsibilities of the Coach
• Skills of the Coach
• Achieving Self-Awareness and Self-Management in Coaching

12. The Coaching Stance :

• Maintaining Neutrality
• Self-Awareness and Self-Management
• Holding the Client’s Agenda
• No Colluding

13. Honing Professional Coaching Skills :

• Presence
• Powerful Questioning
• Giving and Receiving Feedback
• Basics of using Emotional Intelligence

14. Mentoring Agile Roles and Transitions :

• Mentoring and Mentoring Practices
• Mentoring and Coaching the Roles in Agile
• Understanding the Individual Change Cycle
• Mentoring and Coaching the Key Transitions for the Roles in Agile
• Identifying and Handling Resistance from Individuals

15. Teaching the Agile Basics and Mindset Shift :

• Modes of Teaching
• Helping the Team Members experience the Agile Mindset Shifts
• To Distinguish and also Articulate at least one Agile Framework

16. Setting up a Healthy Team Environment :

• Helping Teams to know themselves
• Helping Teams Create their Culture and Vision
• Creating Team Agreements and Ground Rules
• Setting up the Work Environment
• Accommodating the Team’s Geographical Relationship

17. Features of an Agile Team :

• Trusting
• Propelled by Shared Purpose
• Shared Leadership
• Continuously Seeking to Improve
• Self-Organizing

18. Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the Team :

• Identifying and Managing ‘Group Think’
• Identifying and Surfacing Conflict
• Building Self-Awareness / Self-Management capacity in the team

19. How to Facilitate a Conflict in a team :

• Planning to Facilitate a Conflict in a Team.

After the coaching you would have learnt many things such as :

• Agile coach’s roles and responsibilities.
• The right way of building high performance and self-organizing teams.
• Difference between mentoring, consulting, facilitating and coaching.
• Honing coaching conversation skills.
• The correct way of handling team dysfunctions.
• Process of becoming an enterprise agile coach.
• Agile coaching mindset.
• How can geographically apart teams make working agreements.

Our ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coach (ICP-ACC) Training is ideal for:

• Product Owners
• Analysts
• Product Managers
• Project Managers
• Team Leaders or Team Members who are willing to become agile coaches
• ScrumMasters
• Iteration Managers
• Agile Coaches and aspiring coaches