Agile Facilitator Training in English

Facilitation skills for Agile and Scrum Professionals
“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams”, the Agile Manifesto announces. But what do we need in order to support this self-organization? Could there be any way of helping this special kind of teamwork to emerge? Or is it just a matter of time and patience until things get going?

Facilitation means supporting and empowering self-organizing teams to getting their work done. Combining the essential soft skills of professional facilitation with agile know-how, you develop a very different mind-set to the one conventionally assumed when attempting to “manage” the process of a meeting. By practising a macro-level attitude towards participant’s minds and hearts, as well as micro- level interventions such as listening deeply, inviting people to say more and creating a common understanding, this training ignites a sustainable learning process. On the one hand, you use a range of challenging exercises to improve your facilitation capabilities, both on the level of content and on the level of relationships; on the other hand, you learn how these capabilities are shaped by a profound understanding of agile principles.

As a professional agile facilitator you recognize the whole agile process in every single meeting you support.

Benefits:

• State-of-the-art know how of facilitation
• New tools for enabling self-organization
• Skills for effective conflict resolution
• Fresh impulses for collaborative leadership
• Specific solutions for difficult situations

Topics:

• Me as facilitator: personal awareness as starting and ending point of every intervention
• The loop of facilitation: Self, Group, Process
• The toolbox of agile facilitation: active listening, reflective dialogue, professional feedback, visualization techniques, conflict resolution skills
• From start to follow-up: preparing, planning, reviewing meetings
• Agile teambuilding: kick-off, team maturity, retrospective and consistent development
• Mastering difficult situations e.g. team doesn´t want a retrospective; product owner is not accepted; nobody sticks to the agenda; lack of commitment to improvements; team criticizes you as facilitator

Who should attend:
ScrumMasters, Scrum and Agile Coaches