Agile Coaching Essentials

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This specialization is intended for anyone who wants to have a bigger impact on the culture and success of their organization. Through five courses, you will learn foundational coaching principles, ethical and emotional maturity, facilitation and mentorship, driving change across teams, and sustaining transformation for long-term agility.

Syllabus

Course 1: Introduction to Agile Coaching
Course 2: Agile Coaching Skills
Course 3: Becoming an Agile Coach
Course 4: Coaching for Change: Making Agility Work
Course 5: Coaching for Transformation: Sustaining Change

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15 hours 46 minutes
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With practical agile coaching skills, you can lead teams to perform at their best and contribute to thriving, collaborative work environments. In this self-paced course, you'll explore six key skill areas: facilitating, teaching, mentoring, advising, leading, and coaching. Then, you'll learn how to apply each one to fit the needs of individuals, teams, and organizations. Through realistic scenarios, you'll see how to guide productive conversations, strengthen collaboration, and create the conditions for continuous improvement. Using these approaches, regardless of your experience with agile project management, you can enhance your ability to influence positive change and help teams deliver greater value. If you're already a seasoned coach, you'll gain fresh insights for refining your style and adapting more fluidly to complex situations. If you're new to agile coaching, you'll find a clear, structured path to building confidence and capability. If you want to help teams become more resilient, adaptable, and successful, this course will show you how.
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15 hours 47 minutes
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As an agile coach, you'll shift between different stances based on what the situation calls for. A "stance" is the role or approach you choose—such as facilitating, teaching, leading, or advising—to help people navigate challenges and move toward greater effectiveness as a team. This self-paced course explores each stance in depth, preparing you to guide teams and leaders through agile adoption hurdles, resistance to change, everyday conflicts, and other obstacles on the path to continuous improvement: Facilitating Teaching Mentoring Advising Leading Coaching You'll gain the confidence to navigate complex roadblocks, ignite continuous improvement, and shape resilient, high-performing teams. If you've ever wanted to lead transformations with skill, empathy, and impact, this is where you begin.
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14 hours 34 minutes
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This course gives you access to the powerful systems-coaching tools agile leaders use to help entire organizations—and the teams within them—think, act, and grow as one aligned system. You'll explore how to define, reveal, and serve systemic patterns; how to enter complex group dynamics; how to work with roles and navigate conflict; and ultimately how to guide transformation that sticks. Using these approaches, regardless of whether you're a coach, scrum master, project manager, or agile leader, you'll gain the ability to drive strategic alignment, boost collaboration across functions, and nurture adaptability in evolving environments. If you're already familiar with agile coaching, this course offers a broader lens to see and influence organizational patterns for deeper impact. If you're newer to systems thinking, you'll discover a structured, scenario-based path to mastering high-leverage coaching techniques. If you've ever wanted to help your organization thrive through complexity and change, this course will show you how.
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12 hours 50 minutes
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In this course, uncover coaching techniques that agile leaders use to anchor lasting transformation: Not just surface‑level shifts, but change that evolves with your organization's culture, structure, and values. You'll explore how to apply change‑management thinking, systems awareness, cultural transformation, and strategic organizational design through scenarios drawn from real agile transformations. Using these methods, whether you're leading teams, influencing leadership, or guiding enterprise change, you'll gain the ability to spark cultural shifts, redesign structures, and coach leaders so that change becomes sustainable, not just a momentary improvement. If you're already experienced in agile practices, this course offers a broader lens for amplifying your impact on culture and systems. If you're newer to transformation coaching, this is your clear, structured path to mastering how to support long‑term agility. If you've ever hoped to help your organization transform deeply and endure through change, this course will show you how.
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17 hours 14 minutes
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This self-paced course defines the skills, benefits, and purpose of agile coaching. You'll understand the role of coaching in helping organizations navigate change as they pursue enterprise agility. You'll also explore how agile coaching differs from roles in project management and professional coaching while learning essential practices in facilitation, mentoring, self-mastery, and ethical decision-making. Through practical scenarios and reflective exercises, you'll strengthen your ability to foster psychological safety, navigate complex team dynamics, and help others unlock their potential. By the end of the course, you'll be able to approach team and organizational challenges with confidence. What makes this course unique is its focus on real-world applicability across industries. You won't just learn what agile coaching is. You'll discover how to apply it in real-world contexts so that you can have a meaningful impact on team and organizational performance. This course was designed by agile coaching experts and shows you how to utilize the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel, a tool to assess your strengths and weaknesses and develop a plan for growth and improvement. The wheel represents the many skills of agile coaching, including facilitation, teaching, mentoring, and leading.