Extended Education

Agile Coaching and Leadership

Leadership in agile environments is founded on a diverse set of skills including listening, teaching, facilitating, coaching, as well as enabling people and teams to collaborate, communicate, share responsibility and become empowered.

Teams do not magically become self-organizing and high-performing. Leadership has a significant impact on the teams growth and capabilities. A good coach and facilitator can help the teams find their way and take responsibility - help them become a real, high-performing team.

This 2-day course explores the skills and techniques that people, whether they are Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Managers or Team members, can use to lead oneself and others on the road to high performance.

The course covers the following topics:

• How to build a team
• How does self-organizing team work and how is it lead
• Taking responsibility
• The roles and differences of coach, trainer and facilitator
• How to make observations
• How to ask effective questions
• How to give feedback
• Facilitating

The course includes plenty of practical exercises. Participants will be provided with techniques and tools they can apply in their daily work.