Certified Agile Team Facilitator™

Agile Team Facilitation has the ability to enhance a team to the level of true Agility.

Lesson Outcomes:

In this lesson, you will define the purpose, mindset, and functions of a professional operating at the Agile Team Facilitation level of skill.

Key Learning Topics for this lesson include:

• Define Facilitation

People must take their development slowly and become competent at each phase before going on to the next in order to benefit from effective agile coaching.

Lesson Outcomes:

In this lesson, you will outline the procedures for someone becoming proficient in the field of agile coaching.

Key Learning Topics for this lesson include:

• Make the leap from a Facilitator to a Coach and

• Shu Ha Ri Model

Agile coaches at all developmental levels respect their limitations and have the ability to request help when necessary.

Lesson Outcomes:

In this lesson, you will learn how to balance and describe the developmental levels of Agile Coaching and explain situations where coaches should call on more advanced or more diverse skills.

Key Learning Topics for this lesson include:

• Agile coaching stances and Agile Mindset

A team that uses Agile methodology is maintained and expanded by experts working at the Agile Team Facilitation

step.

Lesson Outcomes:

In this lesson, you will summarize the mindset and functions of the Agile Team Facilitation level of skill and distinguish it from the Agile Coaching level of skill.

Key Learning Topics for this lesson include:

• Growth and Fixed Mindset

• Characteristics of an effective facilitator

Effective facilitators consciously embody key beliefs and principles that inform and underlie their actions as they engage groups in processes to achieve their desired outcomes.

Lesson Outcomes:

In this lesson, we will explain the beliefs and principles of effective facilitators and indicate how these enable groups to achieve desired outcomes.

Key Learning Topics for this lesson include:

• The facilitation mindset

Great ideas come when all team members are involved, and engaged and all ideas are freely shared.

Lesson Outcomes:

In this lesson, we will demonstrate two or more techniques for facilitating full participation.

Key Learning Topics for this lesson include:

• Encouraging Participants

• Keep Discussions Constructive and Positive

• Self-Management

Clear objectives and outcomes characterize effective meetings. The individual with the greatest stake in the result is best suited to define these.

Lesson Outcomes:

In this lesson, apply one or more tools to articulate the purpose and outcomes of an example or real-world

meeting.

Key Learning Topics for this lesson include:

• Techniques to clearly identify the purpose and intended

Facilitators use the desired outcomes to design the meeting flow, a series of activities that help the group achieve their desired outcomes.

Lesson Outcomes:

In this lesson, you will explain key considerations for intentional group process design and execute the steps to create a facilitator guide.

Key Learning Topics for this lesson include:

• Divergent & convergent models of meeting flow

Neutrality is the facilitator's ability to focus on the group process and suspend judgments on the content of the meeting.

Lesson Outcomes:

In this lesson, we will demonstrate a neutral facilitation stance in context.

Key Learning Topics for this lesson include:

• Defining neutrality and

• Neutrality as a discipline