Build capacity in your agile teams
Agile Coaching is an immersive course that provides participants with the skills needed to be an agile coach.
The course increases internal capabilities in businesses and maximises the benefits of agile transformations.
Why become an agile coach?
Agile Coaching enables you to appropriately lead and effectively facilitate, coach, teach and mentor agile teams.
Course overview
What you'll learn...
Day 1
AGILE COACHING
- Theory: The Agile Coaching Mindset
- Theory: Definition of Agile Coaching
- Activity: Coach as Agile Role Model
- Theory: Agile Manifesto and Principles
- Theory: Essential Mindset Shifts
- Exercise: Self-Management
- Simulation: Agile Coaching Stance
PROFESSIONAL COACH
- Theory: Foundational Professional Coaching Skills
- Theory: Emotional Intelligence
- Exercise: Presence
- Exercise: Listening
- Activity: Powerful Questioning
- Exercise: Feedback
- Exercise: Identifying Issues
- Activity: Exploring Issues
- Simulation: The Coaching Conversation
Day 2
COACH AS MENTOR ADVISER
- Theory: Mentoring vs Coaching
- Exercise: Articulate Expertise
- Exercise: Give Advice while Maintaining Presence
- Activity: Choice
- Theory: The Individual Change Cycle
- Theory: Key Agile Role Transitions
- Exercise: Handling Resistance to Change
- Simulation:The Mentoring Conversation
COACH AS TEACHER
- Theory: Changing Education Paradigms
- Exercise: Chunk Content into Digestible Pieces
- Exercise: Use Multiple Content Delivery Mechanisms
- Theory: Learning principles
- Exercise: Check for Understanding
- Theory: Create an Environment for Stickiness
- Simulation: Experience the Agile Mindset
- Theory: The 4C method
Day 3
COACH AS TEAM COACH
- Activity: Take a System View
- Theory: Team Performance Model
- Exercise: High Performance
- Theory: The Team as a Healthy System
- Exercise: Examples of Dysfunctional vs Effective ways of working
- Exercise: Identifying Blockers
- Exercise: Team Self Awareness & Self Management
- Theory: Teams are Human Systems
- Simulation: Adapt your Approach based on Team Maturity
- Exercise: Leadership Engagement
- Simulation: Team Coaching Plan
SETTING BOUNDARIES
- Exercise: Coaching Alliances and Contracts
- Theory: Defining the Agile Coaching “Contract”
- Activity: Designing a coaching alliance
- Theory: Internal vs. External Coaches
- Simulation: Coaching agreement
Contact us about our courses
Book your place on the next public course
Where
Melbourne
9 Brighton Street, Richmond
Meet the trainers
MURRAY ROBINSON
DIRECTOR OF COURSES
Murray is an experienced agile coach and trainer with over 30 years experience in IT as a senior executive and consultant. He has worked in a wide range of industries including finance, insurance, manufacturing, travel and telecommunications and has a strong record of running agile transformations.
ALLANNAH RODRIGUES
HEAD OF AGILE
Allannah has over 10 years in industry working with large organisations in all things digital. She is an experienced agile coach and business process consultant and has been involved in leading large scale agile transformations. She has a background in project management, business operations and digital product design and has successfully built and led multidisciplinary teams.
HAMISH DOAKE
AGILE COACH & TRAINER
Hamish is an experienced agile coach and trainer. With over 8 years experience working in digital delivery teams, he draws on his vast experience and uses real world examples to reinforce his lessons. Hamish has worked with various large corporates as an agile project manager and agile product manager.
CAROLINE DOWNES
AGILE COACH & TRAINER
Caroline is an experienced agile project manager and trainer. She has worked across a wide range of Australia’s leading companies in various capacities including as scrum master and project manager. Caroline places high value on partnerships to help to deliver quality projects and business results.
DAVID COX
HEAD OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
David is a strategic Customer Experience (CX) consultant with over 20 years of industry experience as a creative technologist, designer, developer and process designer. David creates products, services and experiences that resonate with people and allow technology to have a positive impact on their lives.
“Highly innovative training style, with integrated digital and multimedia delivery. I recommend the certification to anyone seeking principles and frameworks to apply the agile mind set within their organisation.
EMILY KNOWLES
Business Consultant, Nous
“We’ve found that the enhanced communication around shared work priorities has helped us get more out of every hour & work cohesively as a team.
STEPHANIE BARR
Founder & MD, Barr Group
“The simulations and game-based learning activities allowed for easy and fast understanding of the agile principles – with immediate application.
BRENDAN THORNTON
Senior Business Partner, Australia Post
“I found it a fun, engaging and very informative experience. I'm walking away knowing how to apply agile, not just the theory itself.
