ICAgile Certified Professional Agile Coaching ICP-ACC
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What is ICP-ACC?
Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC) is one of the top most certificate for Agile Coaches in the IT industry. It's a certificate awarded to Agile coaches for their understanding of Agile philosophy and Coaching.
Who provides the ICP-ACC certificate?
ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) is a certification program offered by International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile). International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) is a community-driven organization that consists of pioneers, experts, and trusted advisors. ICAgile is not just another certification body. Learn more about ICAgile here.
ICAgile Certified Agile Coach (ICPACC) is one among the top recognized Agile Coach certifications. Having Certified Agile Coach certification increases the chances of you landing on an Agile Coach job.
ICAgile does not have exams as such but they rely on the trainers for validating the participant’s learning. Leanpitch have subjective assessments and real time coaching assignments to validate participant’s learning.
What is the eligibility to take ICP-ACC Certification?
There is no requirement on years of experience to attend the workshop. However, generally the industry expects Agile Coaches to have atleast 10 years of experience in the industry to hire as an Agile Coach.
What is the validity of ICP-ACC Certificate?
ICPACC certification is valid for life from the date of attaining the certificate. ICAgile certificates have life long validity and never have to be renewed again.
Why ICP-ACC?
Agile Coach is a facilitator and a change agent. They have coaching as their profession. In South Africa, Agile Coach is on the top 3 most paid professions. Getting an ICP-ACC certificate can increase the changes your job as Agile Coach by 75%.
As per Business Insider, Agile Coach is one among the top 25 jobs in the industry. Agile Coaching jobs are in the top most demanding and as well as paying jobs in the IT industry. Agile Coach is on the top executives job in South Africa and can get you an income of 1.2 Million PA. An Agile Coach is a change agent and is expected to facilitate the needed change in the Organization. Certified Agile Coach training from Leanpitch helps you to learn how can an Agile Coach facilitate the much-needed change in the Organization and thereby helping them to achieve their vision.
What is the participant called?
Agile Coach
Who is Agile Coach?
An Agile Coach is a change agent and an enabler. An Agile Coach is a facilitator who facilitates the change inside the Organization. They focus on all levels of the organization and focus on enabling them to solve problems on their own. Building a organising team takes perseverance and cultural change. Agile Coaches are professional coaches who helps the teams to cross their own limits and challenge themselves to excellence. Agile Coaches are enterprise level coaches who works with all levels of the Organization right from executives till the development teams.
An Agile Coach can come from any background and could have played wide variety of roles in any type of Organization. Testing, Development, Content writing, Build & Release, Project Management, Program Management, People Management and so on. An Agile Coach is actually a professional coach, change agent and facilitator. Individuals who are willing to learn and practice Agile Coaching can become Agile Coaches
What do Agile Coach's do?
An Agile Coach is a change agent and are responsible for helping the organization in bringing the change. They take different stances as facilitators, Coaches, teachers and mentors as the organization moves into different maturity levels. They facilitate the change inside the Organization and help them achieve their change vision.
How much salary does an Agile Coach get?
Agile Coach is one of the most demanding jobs in the industry. The average salary of an Agile Coach as per PayScale is 25 Lakhs with the higher side of 36.3 Lakhs. Being an ICAgile Certified Agile Coach and the right amount of skillset will not only get you a job in your location but anywhere in the world.
Agile Coach is a role and the titles in the industry could be Team Coach, Enterprise Coach, Transformation Coach and so on. The titles usually depends on the Organization. The next role is equal or similar to that of a COO in an Organization. A passionate Agile Coach ends up being an Independent Coach running a single person Organization.
Acquiring knowledge is the first thing to get started as an Agile Coach and ICAgile Certified Agile Coach is one of the ways to get that knowledge. Three days training from an ICAgile Authorized Instructor will help an Agile Coach to get that practical knowledge by practicing Coaching inside the workshop, learning through the trainer's experience and case studies.
Once you are done with ICPACC certificate, it's time to put your knowledge to use in someway before directly jumping into the Agile Coach’s role. Here are some of the ways to achieve it.
Practice at your workplace: Try your skills as a Change agent and use some of the concepts from the workshop to create visibility to issues without even mentioning it as Agile. You can avail our 1 week FREE mentoring to get hand holding from an experience coach.
Attend meetups: Connect with practicing Agile Coaches to understand the challenges they face and learn from their experience. Leanpitch conducts monthly meetups across India to help Agile Coaches come together and share their experience.
Volunteer for Social Scrum Project: Volunteer for a Social project and get the experience of using Scrum for solving complex problems. Leanpitch runs Social Scrum initiative provide such a platform.
Read Books: Continue to read books and try some of the concepts in your day to day life. Here is the set of books that you can read:
- Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins
- Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux
- Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan
- The Skilled Facilitator by Roger Schwarz
- The Fifth Discipline Field Book by Peter M Sange
- Happily Delivering Happiness by Satisha K Venkataramaiah & Apeksha Patel
- Drive by Daniel Pink
- Co-Active Coaching by Phillip Sandahl and Laura Whitworth
Gain advanced Certifications: Try attending other advanced Coaches certificates to enhance your coaching skill. Here are the suggestions
ICP-ATF
ICP-ENT
ICP-CAT
Certified NLP Practitioner / Certified Life Coach
After completing the workshop, Leanpitch provides continuous learning through meetups, webinars, and free coaching. By learning continuously and meeting fellow Agile Coaches who shares their experience and knowledge.
Industry trends
Agile Coach is the most trending job in the industry as more and more Organizations understands the need for Coaching teams and individuals. By attending Leanpitch ICP-ACC workshop and with post-workshop support that Leanpitch provides, it is easier to get the job as an Agile Coach in the industry.
Our Agenda
The workshop is designed to help participants to get started as an Agile Coach. The learning objectives are arranged according to the sequence of events that would happen when the participants are hired as an Agile Coach.
Pre Workshop Summary
● Agile Principles
● Agile Manifesto
Pre-workshop Preparation
We want you to make most of the time you spend with our trainers and other participants. Learning maximizes with the perspective of others. So we expect you to come with a fresh mindset to the workshop where the trainer will help you to get your mind blown.
Our Workshop Summary
● Understanding How to coach Individuals, Teams and Organization
● How to bring change in the Organization by understanding the need for change.
Our Workshop
Learning During Workshop
Our workshop is designed in such a way that the participants can get started as an Agile Coach from Day One. Participants will learn the roles and responsibilities of an Agile Coach through role plays and simulations.
Development in the Agile Coaching Discipline
● Development Path for Agile Coaching
● The Agile Team Facilitation Mindset
● The Agile Coaching Mindset
Coach as Facilitator
● Foundational Facilitation Skills
● Conducting a Facilitated Session
● Facilitating Collaborative Meetings
● Skilfully Facilitating the Agile Practices
Coach as Professional Coach
● Foundational Professional Coaching Skills
● The Coaching Conversation – Coaching for Action
● Key Mentoring Skills
● Mentoring Agile Role Transitions
Coach as Teacher
● Key Teaching Skills
● Agile Mindset Shifts and Frameworks
Coach as Team Coach
● Foundational Team Coaching
● Describing Team Development
● Coaching the Journey toward High Performance
● Handling Conflict and Dysfunction within the Team
● Handle Organizational Impediments
Set Boundaries for Agile Coaching
● Coaching Alliances and Contract
Post Workshop Summary
● On the job mentoring
● Review real-life scenarios
Post Workshop
Post-workshop Mentoring
We would like you to get started as an Agile Coach as soon as possible. So post workshop we few mandatory and optional activities for you.
Practice Coaching with real-life challenges
Learn to coach people through real-life problems by Coaching a few people real-time.
Career Counseling by a Coach
- Get mentored by a Coach at your workplace or over Skype to learn to introduce Scrum at your workplace (optional)
- On-the-job mentoring
Our Trainer:
Vivek Jayaraman
Vivek is a compassionate Coach, Mentalist and Story Teller. He is an ICAgile Authorized Instructor, NLP Trainer, Agile, leadership & Wellness Coach, and a practicing psychotherapist with more than 18 years of experience. He currently works as a Customer Success Officer for Leanpitch Technologies & LeanGears LLC. Vivek has a knack to work closely with people and help them succeed. He shares that experience of working with people on all his training and uses them in his Coaching, Counselling, and Consulting assignments.
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