ICAgile Training
Adopting an agile mindset unleashes the brilliance of people. All of our ICAgile-accredited courses provide hands-on experiences with practice in a collaborative environment, led by real-world practitioners. Agile is not just a process or methodology; it’s a mindset.
The agile mindset embraces challenges and views failures as learning opportunities. It is the game changer that helps us embrace what it means to be agile. From the beginning, our goal has been to help organizations realize the power of agility by focusing on the transformation of people, not just processes. We do this by providing agile learning journeys that equip people with an agile mindset and the knowledge and skills necessary for organizations to achieve sustainability agility.
Business Agility Foundations
The ICAgile Business Agility Foundations course is a highly-interactive learning experience designed to jumpstart the organizational and individual transformation towards a more responsive, value-driven reality.
Achieving the ICAgile Certified Professional in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) demonstrates an ability to articulate the values, principles, and dimensions of business agility. Business agilists will learn, discuss, reflect, and formulate an action plan for applying agility in their workplaces and can appraise and use a variety of frameworks, tools, and techniques to sense and respond to the dynamic reality of value delivery.
Learning Objectives
- Understand The Need for Business Agility
- Create a Compelling Vision, Focus, and Clarity of Purpose
- Discover New Ways of Thinking
- Practice New and Differentiating Behaviors
- Apply Frameworks, Tools, and Techniques
- Establish Business Agility as the New Normal
Through Instructor Authorization, ICAgile verifies the teaching skills, domain knowledge, and experience of an instructor. Only instructors authorized by ICAgile can deliver ICAgile-Accredited Courses.
Agile Team Facilitator (ATF) 2-Day Course
The IC-Agile ICP-ATF course is one of two knowledge-based certifications on the Agile Coaching Track. It focuses primarily on the mindset and role of an agile team facilitator, 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. In addition, participants will build their facilitator toolkits and gain experience facilitating specific agile practices most relevant to their organizational context.
Relevant roles include ScrumMasters, Agile Project Managers, Agile Coaches and aspiring coaches, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and anyone with the desire to explore the power of facilitation.
Topics Covered
- Understand the Agile Coaching Development Path
- Understand The Agile Facilitator Mindset
- Practice the foundational skills of a facilitator
- Learn how to conduct facilitated sessions and collaborative meetings
- Practice Designing and facilitating meetings
- Learn how to adjust facilitation based on the maturity of the team
- Expand your toolbox of facilitation skills
What Attendees Get
Participation in this highly interactive course will give attendees the necessary skills to facilitate discussions and help Agile Teams achieve successful outcomes.
The class registration includes:
- Hands-on experiential learning
- Attendee digital workbook
- Course certificate of completion
- Attendees must attend all days of the course in order to be eligible for certification
Agile Coaching Certification (ACC) 3-Day Course
The IC-Agile ICP-ACC is the second 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. 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.
Course Topics
- The Coaching Competency Framework
- The Agile Coaching Mindset
- Coach as Professional Coach
- Coach as Mentor
- Coach as Teacher
- Coach as Team Coach
- Setting Boundaries for Agile Coaching
Included in the Course
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.
The class registration includes:
- Hands-on experiential learning
- Attendee digital workbook
- Course certificate of completion
- Attendees must attend all days of the course in order to be eligible for certification
Five-day Team Facilitation (ATF) and Agile Coaching Certification (ACC) Course Bundle
Organizations wishing to combine the ATF and ACC courses can do so with the Team Facilitation and Agile Coaching course bundle. The bundle includes the same course material, and attendees completing the five-day course achieve both certifications. The course schedule can also be customized for your organization. Just fill out the contact us form and we’ll be in touch to help create a schedule that is right for your organization.
The Agile Rising Difference
We are not a training company. We are not a staffing company. Agile Rising focuses on real transformations for companies who choose the path of enterprise agility. As an SPCT Gold Partner with highly experienced Agile transformation consultants and coaches, we offer the right blend of consulting, coaching, and teaching in your organization for real transformation to succeed. You can expect insights from the trenches and pragmatic advice in every class we offer.