ICP ACC – Agile Coaching Certification

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LEANING OBJECTIVES OF AGILE COACHING CERTIFICATION

The learning objectives of Agile coaching certification encompass a wide range of skills and competencies. Foundational skills for professional coaching Mentoring, teaching, and coaching strategies Tools for coaching teams and individuals Strategies for handling conflict and dysfunction.

1. Introduction to Agile Coaching: This section provides an overview of the role of an Agile Coach and discusses the different competencies required, including coaching, mentoring, teaching, and facilitating. It highlights the coaching approach necessary for effective coaching sessions and provides real-life coaching examples to illustrate the key mindset shifts required for Agile coaches.
2. Professional Coaching : This section explains and provides real-life coaching examples of essential professional coaching skills such as emotional intelligence, the ability to be fully present, building rapport, engaging the person being coached in the process, active listening, powerful questioning, focusing on generating insights through thinking, and giving and receiving feedback.
3. The Coaching Conversation: Coaching for Action This section illustrates the application of coaching conversations, including a demonstration of conversations that involve issue identification, exploration, and commitment to action.
4. Mentoring Agile Roles and Transitions: This section focuses on understanding individual change styles and addressing resistance. It explains and demonstrates the application of the SCARF model for mentoring various agile roles.
5. Understanding Team Development: This section outlines the application of foundational team coaching, the model of team development, how to help a team identify its stage of development, how to define and identify high performance, how to support the team as a healthy system, and how to adapt coaching style based on team maturity.
6. Managing Dysfunctions and Conflicts: This section explains the different levels of team conflicts, the coach’s responsibilities for managing disputes, and how to develop self-awareness and self-management within the team.
7. Coaching Agreements: This section discusses and identifies challenges faced by internal and external coaches. It also demonstrates the creation of a coaching contract and how coaching sessions will be conducted.
8. Agile Coach as a Teacher: This section explains how a coach, in the role of a teacher, uses multiple content delivery mechanisms and helps team members undergo mindset shifts. It also includes guidance on articulation and conducting teaching sessions.

DEVELOPMENT IN THE AGILE COACHING DISCIPLINE

• The ICAgile Coaching Mindset:  Explore Agile coaching certification, Coach as Role Model, Achieving Essential Mindset, Shifts/Self-Awareness/Self-Management, and Agile Coaching Stance. Fixed Mindset Vs Growth Mindset.

COACH AS A PROFESSIONAL COACH

1. Foundational Professional Coaching Skills: Explore ICF Core competencies, Coaching Skills. Deep dive into Powerful questions.
2. The Coaching Conversation & Coaching for Action: Explore various coaching models and set goals using SMART. Co-Active Model.

COACH AS MENTOR

1. Key Mentoring Skills: Explore the Key mentoring model, Coaching Vs Mentoring. Individual Change Cycle.
2. Mentoring Agile Role Transitions: Identify Driving & Restraining forces for agile adoption. Identify Key Role Transitions during Agile Transformation.

COACH AS TEACHER

1. Key Teaching Skills: Various learning modalities. Get introduced to Training from the Back of the Room. Learning Organization.
2. Agile Mindset Shifts and Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile, LeSS.

COACH AS TEAM COACH

1. Foundational Team Coaching: Systems Thinking, Emotional, Social, and Relationship Systems Intelligence. Introduction to ORSC.
2. Describing Team Development:  Introduction to Tuckman’s Model.
3. Coaching the Journey Toward High Performance: Team Development Wheel for coaching, 9 steps in becoming an agile team, Characteristics or high-performance team.
4. Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the Team: Introduction to Five Levels of Conflict, Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
5. Handling Organizational Impediments: Identify various impediments during Agile transformation.

SETTING BOUNDARIES FOR AGILE COACHING

Coaching Alliances and Contracts:  Agile Coach Certification Considerations, Internal Vs External Coaches.