COURSE DESCRIPTION
Gain the skills, mindset and tools to enable you to create and facilitate meetings for maximum impact. By attending this ICAgile Certified Course you will come away with the tools, models and mindset enabling you to engage the entire audience and drive towards agreed-upon outcomes. Attend our classes in London and New York or talk to us about a private onsite session.
Facilitation is a key skill required to foster collaboration and enable self-organizing teams. This two day ICAgile Certified workshop focuses on the mindset and role of an agile team facilitator and provides a range of tools and techniques that can be used for designing engaging meetings that drive towards agreed-upon outcomes.
By attending this highly interactive workshop you will gain the necessary skills to design meetings for maximum impact. You will come away with both updated toolkits and practical experience that you can use back in the workplace while leveraging your new skill sets to facilitate agile practices towards successful team outcomes. You will also be eligible to attain the ICAgile-Certified Professional Agile Team Facilitator certification. This course has been designed and developed by the AWA Team, the global community of practice for agile and organizational change.
It may be more cost-effective to run this course onsite if you have a group of 10 or more people. Contact for more details.
During the two days we cover:
What an agile facilitator is and how this role plays out with your teams.
The beliefs and principles of effective facilitators such as self-awareness, self-management and neutrality.
How to design and present meetings with clear purpose and a variety of group activities to achieve desired outcomes.
Able to facilitate collaborative sessions with a clear decision scope.
Create specific agile framework meetings that overcome obstacles and achieve overall purpose and outcomes.
Acquire a new facilitation tool kit enabling you to facilitate sessions for full participation.
Facilitate better, more meaningful collaborative conversations and increased capacity to give and receive feedback.
How to use and design retrospectives techniques depending on your team’s context that will enable you to build trust and work through common pitfalls.
Design and facilitate Agile meetings in a variety of contexts and for varied team maturity levels.
Introduction to facilitation
How Agile facilitation differs from pure facilitation
Intro and practice of Core facilitation skills
Designing meetings for maximum impact
Models and tools for facilitation
Practice facilitating key Agile meetings
Putting it all together
Assessment
This course is accredited by the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) as fulfilling all Learning Objectives in the Agile Team Facilitation track. After successful completion of this course, you can apply for the ICAgile Certified Professional-Agile Facilitation (ICP-ATF). This continuing education certification is a key step toward achieving the ICAgile Expert-Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), the industry’s first competence-based certification.There is an ongoing assessment throughout the class as well as a practical assessment at the end of the course that you will need to pass. As long as the trainers believe you have demonstrated competence and that you have understood the learning objectives and you do not miss more than 1 hour of the course then you will receive the certification. The certification is included in the price of the course. Following the class you will receive an email from ICAgile with your Certification.
ENDORSED BY THE SCRUM ALLIANCE
By attending this course you will be eligible to earn up to 15 Category C SEU Points.
