“No matter what the problem is,
it’s always a people problem“
(Gerald M. Weinberg)
“No matter what the problem is, it’s always a people problem”
(Gerald M. Weinberg)
Passionate catalysts of business agility and winning teams
What is an Agile Coach?
For organisations, teams, managers and leaders who seek to create a productive, empowered, high performing and adaptable culture, the Agile Coach is a catalyst, change agent and servant leader who provides professional coaching, facilitation, teaching and mentoring to help organisations realise their goals and achieve excellent results.
The Agile Coach lives by, and works through Agile values, principles and practices. They aim to reduce client dependency. Agile Coaches drive results by focusing on developing the capabilities of the people and teams over optimising for immediate, short-term results.
What do you need to be outstanding?
The Coach is a neutral partner supporting teams in their journey to nurture more intentional relationships both internally and with key stakeholders. He or she helps them clarify and achieve their mission, fosters continuous improvement by challenging the team to reflect and adapt their processes and practices as they become more mature.
The Agile Coach works with senior leaders to create alignment, increase awareness of impediments to teams’ improved performance, and eliminate internal barriers to enable more effective communication and collaboration across departments and functions.
An excellent Agile Coach is able to offer the right balance between challenge and support, and switch appropriately between coaching, facilitation, teaching and mentoring, depending on the situation and maturity of the team.
A Coach brings clarity and creates awareness on:
- what needs to be achieved, clarifying values, mission, business goals;
- how will we know we achieved it, helping identify success criteria;
- how we need to collaborate to achieve it, creating opportunities for creativity and collaborative effort;
- what is standing in the way to achieve it, uncovering patterns or impediments towards an improved performance;
- how we minimise the impact of obstacles that cannot be removed, helping teams find alternative ways around what cannot be changed and is hindering success;
- what we have learned so far that needs to change and improve, introducing a regular habit of experimenting, inspecting and adapting.
What is the journey of an Agile Coach and why should you start yours?
In order to excel as an Agile Coach, you need to be able to master the four stances of teacher, mentor, facilitator and professional coach. This mission is not easy if you are not equipped with a heavy toolbox of techniques that can come handy in the multiple scenarios you will have to handle. We can help you shape your own style by learning and practising, listening to real life examples, sharing your experience with your peers to get new insights.
Many Agile Coaches are unaware of the impact they can make by acquiring or strengthening professional coaching skills. They tend to be teachers or mentors, sometimes facilitators, and do not create sustainable change for the teams and organisations they work with. Professional Coaching is key to boost your career as an Agile Coach and maximise the impact you can make.
Are you already an excellent Agile Coach? Why not taking your skills to the next level? We can support you in different ways.
Discover more about what this journey can give you!
Here is what they say about these classes!
Great job transmitting expertise in coaching and facilitation. Live demonstration of techniques to resolve your doubts, answer your questions and help you solve issues you may be facing in your workplace. At the end of the training I was able to apply my newly acquired coaching skills to my teams and be better at my job.
This course opens new spaces in the mind, raises self-awareness, and also gives an answer on how to deal with difficult situations. The course is interactive and invites discussion, which increases the effectiveness of learning. The meetings were great fun and the huge knowledge of the trainers, both theoretical and practical, made me after every class looked forward to the next meeting! Thank you!
The course Elevating Agile Coaches introduced me to a coaching mindset and played a significant role in my career change. Lucia navigates the course content providing real-life examples and creating the space for practice with coaching dojos. This course was genuinely transformative for me, and I cannot recommend it enough.
Very good training introducing you to the world of professional coaching. Friendly form, interesting exercises and DOJOs! Thank you Lucia!
A professional and always engaging ICP-ACC virtual course. By the end of the course we had all experienced a shift towards a coaching mindset which we were able to benefit from in our day-to-day Agile Coaching work, thanks to the guidance and many practical exercises provided during the course.
I have enjoyed immensely the ICAgile Agile Coaching class. I am a knowledgeable practitioner and still got a ton of value out of it, and I think this has to do with how Lucia and Karen facilitate the class. I have engaged with the classmates on the knowledge presented, debating, integrating, and debriefing. I recommend you to join this class as your time, money, and effort will be worth it.
The Agile Coaching course gave me many new concepts, strategies and practical tools to improve the quality of my work. Lucia is a talented trainer able to teach you in a modern way: funny, informal but at the same time highly professional.
Strong take-aways from this course. The trainers interacted with the group to create ground for common work. This online training was professionally organised.
Lucia is one of the most talented and experienced professionals in the field, I have been very surprised her expertise and desire to help us embrace a new mindset. A great experience with a brilliant and fabulous coach as Lucia is.
The ICAgile Agile Coaching class was an exceptional experience: it opened many, many doors in my head and made me realise how I want to work with people and how I can be a better help for them. It's amazing how I got all the answers to the questions I've been asking myself lately and wasn't aware that I will get them so soon.
