Enterprise Agile Coach Expert Program (ICE-EC)

An enterprise coach needs to be able to help guide the process of change with lots of lots of different people at lots of different levels. This is because people react differently when change is put upon them and different people react differently to others. Guiding the change process means what it says. It’s guiding. It does not mean pushing, forcing, telling or setting.

It does not mean taking an enterprise-level process (for example a scaling framework) and installing that into an organisation. That is not a guiding process, but a telling process and data tell us that telling is not an effective way to manage enterprise organisational change. Instead, what we’re looking for is a coaching conversation with the entire organisation.

This “coaching conversation” needs to be mapped out and on our program, we will show you how using the AWA Playbook you can co-create an approach with your client and guide them in implementing, adapting, and sustaining the envisioned change. How to puts that change strategy into action and then support you in inspecting and adapting change efforts based on evidence.

This is a huge area spanning many skills and scope and thus requires a solid understanding of how to navigate this range. It’s not just about agile coaching either. You have got to be able to demonstrate understanding and expertise in professional coaching as well. For example, often IT is the focus of agile but from an enterprise perspective that couldn’t be less true. HR, leadership, legal, finance etc, all these different areas of the business must have a customer-centric focus.

Therefore, this competency requires that you have the necessary coaching scope to understand and navigate the different needs and demands of these different business areas at an enterprise level. You need to demonstrate how you can align the entire organization out of its different silos into a delivery system which can deliver products and services to customers effectively.

As an enterprise coach, you need to be able to identify and recognise that different people have different experiences, different needs and different types of problems. And it is your job to know what it takes to coach everybody (and if you even have the skills to do so or not) – whether that is at one2one, team or systemic level and how to get the right people together at the different levels of the organisation to ensure that the organisation moves and adjusts as well.

Here we require demonstrable experience and competency to develop leadership to understand what business outcomes they require and what behaviours they need to achieve those business outcomes. For example, how do they encourage that behaviour throughout the organisation and create a leadership development program to achieve the desired outcomes that the business needs.

To really demonstrate competence in this area Enterprise Agile Coaches need to have developed their own leadership skills, which is why we do that first (as outlined in Developing Self as Leader) and then we help develop others in the same. This means that as an enterprise coach you need to have access to the leaders within an organisation and work with them from a leadership position yourself. How else can you change an organisation if you don’t have access to senior leadership?

It’s in this final competency where all your knowledge and experience and ability to flex your expertise in agile, complexity theory, systems Intelligence, systems thinking and systems awareness etc and the capacity to navigate between these practices using the AWA Playbook for Organisational Agility comes into play.

And above all the demonstrative competency and ability to help your clients/organisations through an experimentation process using the above-outlined competencies to create the right approach for their specific context and to the right level.

The Enterprise Agile Coaching Expert Programme is exclusive to Adventures with Agile.

This program gives you the opportunity to get serious about the kinds of results you’ve been yearning for, especially since participating in the Enterprise Agile Coach training courses.  As real-world problems arise, you will get the support you need to make better decisions and receive coaching and mentoring so that you can adapt your strategy and maximise your chance of success.

Overcome challenges

• Support and confidence to try out the tools and techniques
• Generate more options for challenges you face in the day-to-day
• Support in taking a stand for what you believe in
• Help with coaching and facilitation
• Support with adapting the tools and skills to your situation
• Keep up to date with the latest thinking
• Learn from each other and how tools and skills work in different environments

For a full list of reasons to train with AWA, you can see our founder and CEO provide 15 reasons to work with AWA as your training provider.

• The Why?
• Alignment & Ethics
• Systemic awareness
• Sensing and Sense-Making with Mirrors
• Developing Self-awareness
• Self-Development
• Strategies for Change
• Leadership Development
• Coaching Stances
• Systemic Coaching
• Experiments
• Learning and Development
• Organisational Design and Structure
• Organisational Culture
• Exit Strategy

Along with being trained by highly-skilled and accredited trainers, you will also receive:

• 9 months of coaching, mentoring, guidance
• 4 day residential with a global community of similarly minded peers
• 2 private coaching sessions
• Leadership profile assessment
• ICE-EC certification accreditation (certification fee included) – obviously you will need to pass to get the certification