Agile Coach Certification (ICP-ACC)
This certification introduces participants to foundational team coaching skills and team development concepts for starting and growing teams while focusing on teams and organizations as human systems. A key part of this certification focuses on developing an understanding of the professional coaching skillset and the value of honing these skills to serve individuals on an agile team.
Training is useful for:
Agile Coaches or aspiring coaches with a passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn and practice facilitation, professional coaching, mentoring, and teaching in service of Agile teams. Other relevant roles include ScrumMasters, Iteration Managers and Agile Project Managers.
Although it is not a formal prerequisite, we have found that this certification is best pursued after Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF).
Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) helps to:
- Better understand the problems and needs of the business;
- Learn to plan and conduct big events at the company level;
- Detect potential pitfalls of the transformation process and learn how to avoid them;
- Learn the basics of coaching and its key tools;
- Use coaching tools to find a new use for common Agile practices.
As an outcome of this course you will get :
In the program:
Basics of Agile Coaching
The basic concepts of coaching, as well as the differences between Agile- coaching and classical coaching:
- The Agile Coach Mindset
- Role and functions of an Agile-coach
- How coaching relates to various Agile practices?
- Strengthening of cooperation in the team
- Supporting Self-organizing team
Coaching tools and techniques
Understanding the Coach's Tools in the context of an Agile team:
- working with different team practices
- working with large and heterogeneous groups
- introduction to the coaching tools and methods
Agile Coach Practices
Supporting a company in achieving a positive result as the main object of the Agile coach and methods for achieving it:
- Coach as Facilitator
- Agile transformation launch
- Work with top management in the organization
- Coach as Mentor
- Coach as Teacher
