ACS-CF 2-day course

Master the art of facilitation! 

 

This is reflective and practice-based learning, which will in two days enable you to deepen your competencies and become more confident in the role the organization demands. Effectively facilitating a group or team toward co-created, meaningful, and committed outcomes is a core agile coaching competency as well as a skill necessary for leadership.

The Agile Coaching Skills - Certified Facilitator (ACS-CF) certification grows the student’s mindset, knowledge, and ability in professional facilitation to learn how to facilitate a group or team toward meaningful outcomes effectively. This certification grew out of the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel.  

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Who should attend?

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This course is for anyone:

• Who is looking to become a better facilitator, even if new to agility or scrum

• Anyone who believes in happier teams and better meetings

• Product, Project, and People managers

• Those who are on their path to coaching and to CSP

• Those who are working as a scrum master would benefit extensively

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Course high-level outline

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During the course, you will:

• Co-create facilitation plan

• Facilitate a role-play

• Practice fostering psychological safety in a session

• Be exploring facilitator positionality and orientation

• Practice techniques to focus on increasing self-awareness

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Learning outcomes

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At the end of the course you will be able to:

• Designing for impactful facilitation

• Identify the key components of psychological safety 

• Identify ways to unearth the emerging needs of a group

• Describe the impact of listening skills on the facilitation

• Facilitate through conflict and explain how conflict is common, expected, and necessary 

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Course content

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Day 1

• Familiarity

• Facilitator story

• Facilitator mindset

• Before the facilitation

• Planning the facilitation

• Repair psychological safety

• Grown zone

• Orientation of the facilitation

• Designing an alliance with the group

Day 2

• Facilitation Role-play

• Feedback

• Retrospective planning

• Retrospective facilitation

• Introduction to Visual Facilitation

• Emotional intelligence

• Conflict theory

• Fast forward, to homework explanation, farewell

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Commitments

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Preparation for a course depends on your entry-level knowledge up to

60 minutes. 2-day workshop with full engagements. 

About 4 hours of homework and reflection will be necessary to complete

all tasks after the course ends. 

After validation with your trainer, you’ll come away as an

Agile Coaching Skills - Certified Facilitator (ACS-CF).

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Are there any prerequisites for a student?

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This course is available to anyone but would help if you facilitated some workshops previously and have basic knowledge of agility. The trainer will share a readout before the course. 

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