Overview
Learn to be an effective facilitator to enhance agility within teams and organizations. Agile Team
Facilitation (ATF) training helps quickly learn how to become a more effective Agile facilitator with
Agilemania. Our coaches use a mix of discussions, simulations, games, and case studies. The Agile
Team Facilitation course is the first step towards achieving the coveted expert level in ICAgile Agile
Coaching track (ICP-ATF certification). The training gives skills to design and conduct collaborative meetings while leading teams toward greater maturity levels, more effective outcomes, and selfmanagement.
The ICP-ATF is one of two knowledge-based certifications on the Agile Coaching Track. It focuses primarily on an agile team facilitator's mindset and role while also providing group facilitation tools and techniques for effectively designing meetings and workshops that both engage the entire audience and drive towards agreed-upon outcomes. Through obtaining this certification, course participants will develop an appreciation for the art of facilitation as key to fostering collaboration and enabling self-organizing teams. Besides, participants will build their facilitator toolkits and gain experience facilitating specific agile practices most relevant to their organizational context.
The certification focuses primarily on the mindset, roles, and responsibilities of a change agent, people in management, and teams. After finishing the certificate, the learner will understand the needed behavior, mindset, and leadership in an agile way. Change agents should differentiate between and among mentoring, facilitating, consulting, teaching and coaching, and will gain the skills needed to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within an agile team.
Target Audience
Agile team leaders or aspiring team leaders with a passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn and practice the art of facilitation. Relevant roles include Scrum Masters, Agile Project Managers, Agile Coaches, aspiring Coaches,
Product Owners, Business Analysts, and anyone with the desire to explore the power of facilitation.
Change agents are an obvious candidate for this program, but I would like to invite management people. Senior and middle-level management are the people who own the transformation, whereas change agents are just catalysts.
Course Outline :: ICP-ATF + ICP-ACC::
Management must understand their role during change and how to support it. Lack of management support will lead to a half-hearted agile transition leading to many dysfunctions at the organization and team levels.
Next is team members because self-management needs little more than what, how, and who to coach each other.
Agile coaching is a skill to help teams to move from self-organized to self-managed.
Learning Objective
The role of an agile team facilitator in business agility
Facilitating meetings and workshops for collaboration
Meeting/workshop structure for a greater experience
The mindset and role of the agile team facilitator
Agile coaching journey starting from facilitation
Agile team facilitator techniques
Leading collaborative discussions
Health checks of agile teams
The Agile Coaching Mindset
Responsibilities and Skills of the Coach
Setting Boundaries for Coaching
The Coaching Stance
The Coaching Conversation – Coaching for Action
Professional Coaching Skills
Conducting the Coaching Conversation
Mentoring Agile Roles & Transitions
Mentoring vs. Coaching
Teaching the Agile Basics &Mindset Shift
Understanding Team Development
Setting up the Team Environment
Creating a Team Kickoff/Startup Agenda
Characteristics of an Agile Team
Coaching the Journey toward High Performance
Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the Team
Handling Organizational Impediments
Planning to facilitate a conflict in a team
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Detailed Agenda
Development Path for Agile Coaching
Effective Agile Coaching requires that people take their development one step at a time, obtaining competence at each step before moving on. Agile Coaches at all developmental levels respect the boundaries of their abilities and call for assistance when needed.
The Agile Team Facilitation Mindset
Effective meetings have a clear purpose and outcomes. These are best defined by the person with the most at stake from the outcome. Facilitators use the desired outcomes to design the meeting flow, a series of activities that help the group achieve their desired outcomes.
Conducting a Facilitated Session
Neutrality is the facilitator's ability to focus on the group process and suspend judgments on the meeting's content. Collaborative spaces create connections, foster trust, allow for silence, and welcome differing points of view. Great ideas come when all team members are involved, engaged, and all ideas are freely shared.
Facilitated meetings are well structured and organized to provide consistency to the participants. It'sIt's common for conversations to be mediocre – improving conversation quality leads to better understanding, fuller collaboration, and remarkable results. Being able to come to decisions is a critical function for a team, frequently problematic, and essential for moving teams to action.
Facilitating Collaborative Meetings
The connection between an Agile ceremony's purpose and the underlying principles/values it expresses must be made explicit so that Agile ceremonies do not become empty rituals. Retrospectives are one of the essential practices to ensure the team inspects and adapts its behavior and process. Retrospectives can either help the team continuously improve or can create team dysfunctions. Stand-ups are the heartbeat of the team's cadence, providing cohesion and commitment. Stand-ups can either launch the team into their work or become an empty, depleting ritual.
Skillfully Facilitating the Agile Practices
The ability to neutrally facilitate a session cannot be gained by reading or lectures alone, but only by doing it.
It's essential to change one's facilitation style based on the group's maturity and needs.
Awareness about agile change management
It is to prepare yourself to operate differently, contributing to developing strategies and owning the transformation. Having in-depth knowledge of business agility, designing an agile transformation roadmap, and leading change make someone more relevant in the ever-changing business world.
The new way to communicate in an agile organization to support self-management
An individual likes or dislikes self-management doesn’t matter anymore as every organization is looking towards a new way of working so better to ourselves in different gears. Coaching conversation and having
Course Outline :: ICP-ATF + ICP-ACC::
mentoring skills become an essential skill for management to support self-organization. These are new areas for many managers as they lack coaching abilities and have to learn to initiate conversation differently.
Need for balancing mentoring and delegation to enable safety at work
Often, we hear that leaders should allow teams to do this or give control to the team. These type of statements make management looks terrible, although it might not be the intention. We need a system thinking approach while deciding to understand the consequences of what you say. Delegation and mentoring go side-by-side.
It is essential to mentor management on the expected role during the change to make them feel safe.
Certification
This training is certified by International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile), a certification and accreditation body. Upon completing the course and submission and approval of your course assignment, you will receive (knowledge) certification in ICP- Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) & Certified Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC).
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.