Agile Coaching Certification
Course Overview
An advanced, practice-focused certification that strengthens coaching, mentoring and consultancy skills for Agile practitioners. The program emphasises real-world coaching conversations, mentoring techniques, mindset shifts for teams, and effective leader engagement — enabling coaches to accelerate team performance and embed sustainable agile behaviours across the organisation.
Days: 2
Participants
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Aspiring Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
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Delivery Managers, Project Managers, Agile Project Managers
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Product Owners seeking stronger coaching and stakeholder engagement skills
Who should attend
Practitioners already working in Agile teams who want to move into formal coaching roles or expand their coaching capability to influence teams, product leaders and senior stakeholders.
Prerequisites
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Practical experience on Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban or similar)
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Basic coaching or facilitation experience recommended (e.g., completion of an Agile coaching foundation course)
Learning outcomes - by the end of this course you will be able to:
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Run effective coaching conversations that surface barriers and create change.
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Apply mentoring techniques to accelerate individual and team capability.
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Support team-level mindset shifts from delivery-focused to product/value-focused thinking.
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Engage and coach leaders to sponsor and sustain Agile adoption.
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Use coaching and consulting stances appropriately to influence outcomes without directive control.
Course outline / modules
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Coaching fundamentals revisited — stances, ethics and boundaries
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The coaching conversation — models, powerful questions and practice
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Mentoring skills for Agile coaches — learning pathways and capability acceleration
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Helping teams shift mindset — practical exercises to surface and reframe beliefs
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Coaching leaders — stakeholder mapping, conversations for alignment and sponsorship
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Coaching patterns and techniques — feedback, appreciative inquiry, systemic coaching
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Measurement & impact — defining success metrics and coaching KPIs
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Practicum & peer coaching labs — real scenarios, role plays and structured feedback
Benefits
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Stronger, repeatable coaching techniques for immediate application.
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Faster team maturity through targeted mentoring and mindset work.
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Better leader alignment and sponsorship for Agile initiatives.
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Improved ability to measure coaching impact and demonstrate ROI.
Delivery format
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Instructor-led classroom or live virtual sessions combining taught material, case studies and intensive coaching labs.
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Post-course coaching clinics or supervised mentoring available on request.
Certification / outcome
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Certificate of Completion and assessment-based recognition for participants who demonstrate coaching competency during practicum exercises. Optional pathways to recognised Agile coaching credentials can be supported with further mentoring.