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What Certified Agile Coach Means?
We have come across many articles and job postings for Agile Coaches in the past, and it seems everyone is looking for a “Certified” Agile Coach. It's important to understand what a “Certified” Agile Coach means since there are many certification bodies that claim one way or another to provide the same, so I am trying to highlight what basically it means when someone claims to provide Certified Agile Coach Certification Training.The agile coach is made up of two words, agile and coach, so basically, organization is asking for someone having in-depth knowledge about lean-agile practices but also knows how to teach, coach, and mentor teams and individuals. It is like any sports coach where coaches are not just experts but know how to coach. Someone can be a good footballer but may not be a good coach, as coaching requires little more than just playing football.
Similarly, we are talking about Agile Coach, so if you are
- Is a person who serves the Agile teams as a catalyst to bring the best out of them by enabling agile thinking and practices.
- Agile Coach fosters the culture of agility by teaching, facilitating, mentoring, and coaching the teams. Agile Coaching in itself a very vast knowledge area.
- Agile Coach is a Change agent who facilitates change in the Organization by focusing at all levels and enabling them to deal with their challenges.
What Benefits Agile Coaching Brings
The certification focuses primarily on the mindset, roles, and responsibilities of an Agile Coach. After finishing the certification, the learner will be able to differentiate between and among mentoring, facilitating, professional coaching, and teaching, and will also gain the skills needed to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within an agile team. 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. Agile Coach is a Change agent who facilitates change in the Organization by focusing at all levels and enabling them to deal with their challenges.Who Issues the Certificate?
There are institutes inculcating coaching not only in the field of executives and sports but also in Agile. With the Agile adoption in almost every field nowadays, these institutes have come up with various programs that enable people in their Agile Coaching journey.
A few of the popularly known institutes in this of professional coaching:
1. International Coaching Federation (ICF): It is a generic coaching certification body that doesn’t provide anything related to agile but is still the most valuable coaching body.2. Scrum Alliance: This is purely based on experience plus ICF, and Co-Active is recommended path Co-Active Coaching Institute – This is similar to ICF ORSC - ORS is an integrated and robust coaching model based on RSI (Relationship Systems Intelligence).
3. ICAgile: Agile Coaching Track and Enterprise Coaching track: International Consortium of Agile (ICAgile) worldwide recognition for their training tracks related to Agile is the only institute that provides the Agile Coaching certificate through their ICP-ACC (ICAgile Certified Professional –Agile Certified Coach) program. ICAgile also provides a variety of certifications that are becoming increasingly popular in the Agile Space.
The ICP-ACC is one of two knowledge-based certifications on the Agile Coaching track. The certification focuses primarily on the mindset, roles, and responsibilities of an Agile Coach. After finishing the certification, the learner will be able to differentiate between and among mentoring, facilitating, professional coaching, and teaching, and will also gain the skills needed to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within an agile team.
What we cover under ICAgile – Agile Coach Program
- The Agile Coaching Mindset– This will help understand who is an Agile Coach and Coaching, achieving essential mindset shift, self-awareness, and management as a coach and the coaching stances.
- Foundational Professional Coaching Skills –This will bring an understanding of emotional intelligence, listening, powerful questioning, and a feedback system.
- Coaching Conversations –This will help practice the coaching conversation to identify the issue, exploration, and active commitment.
- Key mentoring skills –This covers the concepts like advice while Maintaining Presence, articulate Expertise, and mentee at Free Choice.
- Mentoring Agile Role Transitions – This will help understand the contrast between Mentoring with Coaching, understand the Individual Change Cycle, key Agile Role Transitions, and handling Resistance from Individuals.
- Key Teaching Skills -This will cover the multiple Content Delivery Mechanisms and environment for Stickiness and also cover the agile mindset shifts and Frameworks.
- Foundational Team Coaching –This will help understand the systems View, observation, and how to articulate what's happening.
- Describing Team Development –This will help understand the model of team development and use it in service of a team's development, helping a team detect their own stage of development.
- Coaching the Journey Toward High Performance – This will cover defining and identifying high performance; team development is a journey, not a destination which means it’s all about continuous improvement, assessing the team's health, and adapting your style based on team maturity.
- Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the Team –This will help understand the surfacing and working with conflict, build Self-Awareness/Self-Management capacity in the team, and create awareness that we are dealing with human systems.
- Handling Organizational Impediments –This covers how to identify and capture impediments and how to engage the leadership.
- Coaching Alliances and Contracts - This covers how to define the agile coaching "Contract" and design a coaching alliance.
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Sumeet Madan
A Professional Scrum trainer (PST) from Scrum.org, SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC 4.5) and experienced Spotify consultant with over 14 years of rich experience in building people
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