Agile Coaching | WashU TLCenter

Course summary:

Team Leadership and Agile Coaching is an immersive training program designed to help participants develop and enhance their leadership and coaching skills. Through this course, learners will gain a comprehensive understanding of the different coaching techniques such as teaching, mentoring, facilitating, and coaching, and learn how to apply them effectively based on various situations.

Moreover, this course provides learners with the necessary skills to create a positive team environment, promote meaningful collaboration, and resolve conflicts in a healthy manner. As a consultant, leader, or coach, learners will learn how to empower their team members and help them achieve their goals.

This course is a complete reboot and redesign of our previous Agile Coaching program, incorporating new and updated learning outcomes to meet the changing needs of today's dynamic business environment.

Course outline:

Development in the Agile Coaching:

The Agile Coaching Mindset

Coach as a Professional Coach:

Foundational Professional Coaching Skills
The Coaching Conversation – Coaching for Action

Coach as Mentor:

Key Mentoring Skills
Mentoring Agile Role

Coach as Teacher:

Key Teaching Skills
Agile Mindset Shifts and Frameworks

Coach as Team Coach:

Foundational Team Coaching
Describing Team
Coaching the Journey Toward High Performance
Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the Team
Handling Organizational Impediments

Setting Boundaries for Agile Coaching:

Coaching Alliances and Contracts

Learning outcomes:

Relate the mindset, competencies and practices of Agile Coaching to their own experience and current competency level.
Exhibit the self-awareness to identify a development path for their own growth as an Expert Agile Coach
Apply foundational professional coaching skills in an Agile context
Describe the arc of a coaching conversation and apply it using a variety of techniques in real-world Agile Coaching scenarios
Apply foundational mentoring skills in an Agile context
Contrast mentoring and coaching and apply mentoring skills with a mentee on real-world Agile scenarios
Apply foundational teaching skills in an Agile context
Apply concepts to teach a brief lesson which conveys aspects of the key mindset shifts and introduces one key Agile framework
Apply foundational team coaching skills in an Agile context
Apply tools and techniques for effective team startup and for cultivating self-awareness in teams
Assess the health of an Agile team and adjust one's individual coaching style to facilitate the team's journey to high-performance
Apply tools and techniques to work with conflict and dysfunction in teams
Describe common organizational impediments to Agile adoption and categorize them to determine the appropriate level with which to resolve them (e.g., team, community of practice, tactical leadership, executive leadership)
Determine and present the best course of action for formalizing coaching relationships in both internal and external contexts

Type:

Virtual

Day & Time:
Mon & Weds

Mar 17 - Apr 9

5:00 to 7:30PM

Enrollment Deadline:

Mar 10, 2025

Location:

Zoom

Course Fee(s):

$1,495

CEUs:

2.1

Enrollment Deadline is Mar 10, 2025 at 5 PM CST. Beyond this date, please call 314-935-4444 to register.

Parking and refreshments are provided.

CANCELLATION POLICY

A full refund will be given when a registrant cancels more than five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Cancellations received within 5 business days of the start of the class and no-shows will be billed in full. Another person may be substituted at any time at no additional charge.

A request to transfer a class to a future date can only occur if the request is more than 5 business days prior to the start of class. Otherwise, the request will be considered a cancellation and the policy will apply.

Type:

Virtual

Day & Time:
T, Th

Nov 4 - Dec 4