ICA Enterprise Agile Coaching (ICP-ENT)

Workshop Description

Develop enterprise coaching capabilities that enable business agility. Improve business processes by understanding organization structure and design. The enterprise coach has a holistic view of an organization and works across boundaries to accelerate the business agility journey. They are uniquely positioned to partner with organizational leadership to co-create meaningful and sustained change. This ICA Certified Enterprise Agile Coaching workshop will help you to gain a deep understanding of agility at the enterprise level by learning the Leadership, Cultural, Organizational structural and process perspectives.

Audience

This certification was designed for agile coaches at the enterprise and portfolio level, transformational leaders who want to increase their coaching mindset, or anyone aspiring to these roles. It is also relevant for professionals with a strong background in change management and/or organizational design who have a curiosity about agile approaches at the enterprise level.

Workshop Content

Lesson 1: Enterprise & Business Agility 1.1 Business Agility is the Goal Describe business agility and provide examples of how it extends to the whole organization. Compare and contrast systems thinking and complexity theory including when and why you would use each in an enterprise coaching engagement. 1.2 Enterprise Coaching Enables Business Agility Define Enterprise Agile Coaching including the context in which they work, scope, impact and skills needed. Discuss the ethical considerations of enterprise agile coaching, and how to navigate these considerations in their organizational context. Apply a business agility model to a case study or real world scenario case study covering the whole enterprise (must go beyond IT) Lesson 2: Understanding the Organization 2.1 Organization Design and Structure Explain why organization systems entry is a starting point for Enterprise Agile Coaching. Explain organizational culture and various organizational structure Explain various scaling models for use in agile and digital transformation. Identify ways to coach the different patterns of behavior related to organizational structure. Create a systems entry plan for a case study or real-world scenario showing an awareness of the organizational culture, design, goals and objectives. 2.2 Business Process and Improvement Discuss the coaching needed for an organization to shift from traditional business processes to adaptive business processes. Identify ways to coach the organization on adaptive measures of business performance that flow through multiple organizational levels Analyze a current business process and make recommendations on ways to evolve it into a more adaptive business process Lesson 3: Coaching Across the Organization 3.1 Coaching the Organization Discuss the correlation and potential synergy between systems coaching and Enterprise Agile Coaching. Compare and contrast the impact of consulting versus professional coaching in case studies or real-world scenarios. Explore ways to coach the organization in their consideration of scaling including comparing and contrasting at least two scaling models. Practice both professional coaching and consulting conversations. 3.2 Facilitating the Organization Discuss the boundaries that exist within an organization for Boundary Spanning Facilitation Considerations Recommend a boundary spanning facilitation technique in a simulation or real-world situation that involves spanning boundaries. Create a facilitator guide for a boundary-spanning session identifying the desired purpose, outcomes, participants, and flow.

Learning Themes and Outcomes

Enterprise Coaching Enables Business Agility Organization Design and Structure Coaching the Organization Boundary Spanning Facilitation

Prerequisites

Foundational knowledge of agile principles, values, and mindset. Agile coaching experience is recommended.

Professional Development Units (PDUs)

Professional Development Units (PDUs) Attendees may be eligible to apply for 14 PDUs toward their continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP®, PgMP®, and PMI-ACP® certifications.

Part of the Enterprise Agile Coaching Track

For agile coaches at the enterprise and portfolio level. Develop an in-depth understanding of how to work across organizational boundaries and facilitate powerful enterprise change initiatives.

Business Agility Foundations

Enterprise Agile Coaching

Coaching Agile Transformations

Expert in Enterprise Coaching

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ICA helps professionals transform themselves into agile masters who can incorporate agile methods and go beyond the constraints of agile processes. We do this by ensuring that the Agile workshops you take are certified based on proven, discipline-specific learning outcomes. As a certification body – backed by agile thought leaders – ICA work with training providers and organizations to certify their agile workshops and ensure that all learning leads you on your journey to agile mastery. See Accreditation About ICA