Advanced Agile Coaching – Professional Coaching for Agilists
This course is a comprehensive Professional Coaching course specifically designed for people working in Agile environments and looking to accelerate their Agile adoption. The instructor, Damon Poole , is an experienced Enterprise Agile Coach and your fellow students will also come from Agile backgrounds. Example scenarios used in the course are all drawn from real examples that took place in Agile environments.
The course will teach you all of the core competencies of being a Professional Coach, such as creating a coaching agreement, active listening, powerful questioning, using presence and helping people design their own methods for holding themselves accountable. You will also practice everything you learn with fellow participants, get feedback from the instructor, and receive 10 hours of mentor coaching from a PCC level coach.
The course is taught entirely in English and is delivered on-line only using Zoom and Mural.
Accreditation Paths
This is an accredited International Coaching Federation training program which meets the educational requirements for an ICF Credential. The program consists of 60 hours of training: 56 “student contact hours” and 4 hours of short breakout sessions throughout the program. The 60 hours of training can be used to apply for the ICF’s ACC credential.
How This Course Can Help You
Agile involves many changes in mindset, culture, process, and ways of working. As a result, people will get stuck more frequently as they try to figure out how to incorporate Agile in the way that they work. Professional Coaching is a valuable tool for helping people get unstuck and accelerating their transition to an Agile way of thinking and working.
The basis of the course is a new framework which combines coaching objectives, coaching techniques, and coaching principles. This framework was developed from years of Agile Coaching and training Agile Coaches. It will help you stay in the coaching mode and support the coachee in coming up with their own solutions. Each of the coaching techniques comes with examples of “powerful questions” that are open-ended and non-leading. Not only can you apply these techniques 1-1, you can also apply them at the team and organizational levels.
Learning Goals
- Deep understanding of Professional Coaching with an emphasis on the International Coaching Federation core competencies and the behaviors listed in their PCC markers document.
- How to apply Professional Coaching in an Agile environment with individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole.
- To prepare you for ICF ACC credentialing or, in conjunction with another 65 hour program to prepare you for ICF PCC credentialing.
Scheduling
You have 12 months of access to the modules in whichever part(s) you sign up for with the exception of mentor coaching. That is a set 10 hours. The amount of time it will take to complete the program is up to you, but may vary from 6-12 months depending on your time investment. The modules are generally offered on a regular basis in the timeslots of 9-11am, 12-2pm, 5-8pm in the Eastern US time zone during the week. The exact days and times vary from week to week. The modules are also regularly offered during weekend times. All modules are 1 hour sessions; some modules are taken multiple times either for the practice or to focus on different areas.
Intended Participants & Requirements
This program is for Agilists, people who model and champion the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto. Agilists support individuals, teams, and organizations as they transition from one mindset and way of working to a more Agile mindset and Agile way of working. Agilists include those in named Agile roles such as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master, but also includes Agile team members and those in leadership positions that are sponsoring and supporting the change. While this program has obvious appeal for Scrum Masters, RTEs, and Agile Coaches, other roles that can benefit from the workshop include: tech leads, project managers, managers, and product owners.
All of the skills in the workshop are useful for any Agilist looking to add Professional Coaching skills. A working knowledge of Agile and at least one Agile framework is required. Recent experience on an Agile team is highly recommended. No prior coaching experience is required.
Additional Information
All modules are offered on a rotating basis. If you are unable to attend a module at the time you intend, you can take it when it is next offered. And in fact, you can take modules as often as you want in any order at your convenience within the schedule. Full refunds will be given up until the time you have attended 3 modules. You can sign up for the entire program, or purchase the individual pieces as you are ready: the first 30 hours of training, the second 30 hours of training, and mentor coaching. You can enroll at any time. Once you’ve enrolled you have twelve months to complete the program. Enrollment can be extended for an additional 6 months for a small fee.