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Certified Agile Facilitator™

Taught by: Evelyn Tian
When you take the Certified Agile Facilitator™ course from Scrum Alliance, you will learn from experienced agile practitioners and earn a two-year membership with Scrum Alliance. Add this essential capability to your skills toolbox and demonstrate to employers that you can positively impact their goals by effectively facilitating groups and teams.
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18 - 19 December, 2024 |
 09:30 EST |
 8 hrs/day
$2,200
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Advance one of the most thought-after skills

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Evelyn Tian

Coach, Coach Trainer, Coach Mentor and Trainer

 

Join our global community of past graduates from over 80 countries.

Continuously connect, network, and grow with us through monthly events...

 

Why taking Certified Agile Facilitator (CAF) training with us?

 

When you join our CAF training, you'll be learning from a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Certified Team Coach (CTC), Advanced Certified Mentor Coach (ACMC), and a seasoned coach trainer.

 

Our program covers both facilitation and team coaching, paving the way for future team coaching and professional coaching accreditation. This is a unique path led by Evelyn Tian, co-founder of the Enterprise Coaching Institute, an ICF-accredited training provider.

 

Start Your Growth Journey with Evelyn – You'll Love the Learning Experience!

 

what you will get

  • Certification cost included
  • Free monthly mentoring, and networking opportunities
  • 2-Year free membership with Scrum Alliance
  • Renewal of earlier Scrum Alliance certifications included
  • Join a network with professionals from over 80 countries
  • 16 PMI PDU's and 16 Scrum Alliance SEU's

 

Testimonials

Check out our reviews and testimonials from our past graduates from over 80 countries.

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Program Content At A Glance
Facilitator role
  • The art of facilitator self-introduction
  • Facilitator role
  • Attitudes and skills
  • Neutrality of facilitator and how

  •  
FACILITATION
  • The WHAT and HOW of facilitation
  • Being assertive during facilitation
  • When to use WE and YOU
  • Case studies on common facilitation challenges
EMOTIONAL InTELLIGENCE
  • Emotional intelligence (EI) and its importance
  • 4 Components of EI
  • Core EI skills for facilitators
  • Developing EI skills as a facilitator
Psychological safety
  • Overview of Psychological Safety
  • Four stages of Psychological Safety
  • Foster Psychological safety via facilitation
  • Facilitation practice with tools to improve Psychological Safety

  •  
NEUROSCIENCE and facilitation
  • Social brain and the impact of facilitation
  • TERA Quotient 
  • Tools and techniques for brain-friendly facilitation
CONFLICT
  • Conflict responses
  • Thomas Kilmann's Instrument for facilitators
  • Working with different TKI modes as a facilitator
Facilitation - preparation
  • Assessing context and background
  • Group norm assessment
  • Preparation prior to facilitation
  • Facilitation plan design and refinement

  •  
facilitation - FACILITATION
  • Facilitation plan execution
  • Working with challenging situations via feedback - COIN (CORNS) model and practice
  • Facilitating decision making and action plans
  • Follow up
Facilitation practices
  • Working agreement 
  • Retrospective session
  • Discussion summary
  • Feedback to individual and group
  • Group constellation
workshop closing
  • Facilitate a situation analysis and improvement session
  • Identify new practices
  • Monthly coaching circle session introduction
  • Next steps
About Evelyn Tian

Evelyn, a Canadian residing in Sweden, has been passionately working with Agile and enterprise coaching since 2009.

 

She has supported individual and corporate clients in over 80 countries through training, mentoring, consulting, and coaching engagements. Many of her menteers are active Certified Enterprise Coach, Certified Team Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, Associate Certified Coach and Profefessional Certified Coach

 

Evelyn has extensive, hands-on experience in telecom products, the automotive industry, financial sectors, pharmaceuticals, e-commerce, and more. Her expertise encompasses product management, project management, system architecture, software development, system integration and installation, customer support, and R&D management.

 

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Evelyn is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Advanced Certified Coach Mentor (ACMC), Certified Coach Supervisor, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) and Certified Team Coach (CTC). 

 

Evelyn co-founded Enterprise Coaching Institute, which is an ICF accredited training provider, providing development and growth on leadership and enterprise coaching pathways. 

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More about your coach and trainer for the program.

Evelyn is also a keynote speaker at international conferences: 

Invited keynote speaker to Pozitive Technologies 2023

Invited keynote speaker to International Coaching Federation (ICF) Conference, Sri Lanka, 2023

Invited keynote speaker to Siemens Agile Day, 2023

Invited keynote speaker at Scrum Gathering Middle East, 2022

Invited keynote speaker at Scrum Summit, 2022

Invited keynote speaker at Agile Coaching Retreat, 2022

Invited keynote speaker at Regional Scrum Gathering, Egypt, 2022

Invited keynote speaker at Regional Scrum Gathering, Pakistan, 2021

Invited keynote speaker at Regional Scrum Gathering, India, 2021

Invited keynote speaker at Regional Scrum Gathering, Singapore, 2021

Invited keynote speaker at Agile Africa, 2021

Invited keynote speaker at Agile Tour Taiwan, 2020

Invited keynote speaker at Agile Tour Montreal, 2020

Invited speaker of Agile100, 2020

Invited keynote speaker at Global XP, 2019

Speaker of Global Scrum Gathering, 2019

Invited keynote speaker at Scrum Gathering Beijing, 2019

Invited keynote speaker at Agile Lativa, 2019

Invited keynote speaker at Agile Summit, Taiwan, 2018

Chair of IEEE Software Track, Global Scrum Gathering, 2018

Lead Coach at Global Scrum Gathering Coaching Clinic, 2018

Invited speaker at International Online Agile Conference, 2018

Speaker at ScanAgile 2018

Chair of Industrial Track of Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2017

Chair of Agile 2017 for Future of Agile Software Development Track

Invited speaker at 2017 NJSD Conference

Invited keynote speaker at 2016 Agile Tour 2016

Chair of Agile 2016 for Future of Agile Software Development Track

Keynote at XP at 2016, the 4th International Agile Scaling Workshop

Speaker at XP 2016

Invited keynote speaker at 2015 Agile Tour Beijing

Chair of 2015 IEEE Software Experts Summit (SES)

Speaker at 2015 Global Scrum Gathering

Invited keynote speaker at 2015 Agile Tour Shanghai

Invited speaker at 2014 Agile Alliance Conference

Keynote speaker at Agile Asia, 2014

Invited speaker at 2014 GOTO Conference

Invited panelist at 2014 ICSSP (International Conference on Software System Process)

Invited speaker at 2013 QCON Conference

Invited speaker at 2013 Scrum Gathering

Invited panelist at 2013 Scrum Gathering Leadership Summit

Speaker at 2013 Agile India

Invited Speaker at 2012 Scrum Gathering

Panelist at 2012 Scrum Leadership Summit

Invited speaker at 2011 QCON Conference

 

Get started with Evelyn on your growth path - you will love the learning and experience. Image result for register now

 

 

 

 

 

Growth Paths
 

Agile Coach ScrumMaster
Pathway

Progressive LearningWith Agile Coach Mentor

 
 
Master Scrum Framework
- solid foundation
to Scrum mastery
 
 
Grow as ScrumMasters
 - essentials to support
agile teams and organization
 
Elevate mastery to
experts to
grow teams and organizations

Product Expert  
Pathway

Progressive LearningWith a product coach and product manager

 
 
Agile Product Essentials
- Solid Foundation
 
 
Advance Agile
Product Ownership
 
Grow into
Product Expert

Agile Skills Pathway

Progressive LearningGrow agile skills with a coach, coach mentor and coach trainer

 
 
Certified Agile Facilitator
- Most Thoughtafter Skills
 
 
Agile Scaling Professional
- Boost Practices at Organization Level

Leadership Pathway

Join our leadership program delivered to over 3000+ leaderships globally

 
 
Agile Leadership Essentials
 
Agile Leadership

Professional Coaching Pathway

Work with Advanced Mentor Coach

 
 
Associate Certified Coach
 
Professional Certified Coach

 

 
International Coaching Federation
Accredited Provider

 

Program Content At A Glance
Facilitator role
  • The art of facilitator self-introduction
  • Facilitator role
  • Attitudes and skills
  • Neutrality of facilitator and how

  •  
FACILITATION
  • The WHAT and HOW of facilitation
  • Being assertive during facilitation
  • When to use WE and YOU
  • Case studies on common facilitation challenges
EMOTIONAL InTELLIGENCE
  • Emotional intelligence (EI) and its importance
  • 4 Components of EI
  • Core EI skills for facilitators
  • Developing EI skills as a facilitator
Psychological safety
  • Overview of Psychological Safety
  • Four stages of Psychological Safety
  • Foster Psychological safety via facilitation
  • Facilitation practice with tools to improve Psychological Safety

  •  
NEUROSCIENCE and facilitation
  • Social brain and the impact of facilitation
  • TERA Quotient 
  • Tools and techniques for brain-friendly facilitation
CONFLICT
  • Conflict responses
  • Thomas Kilmann's Instrument for facilitators
  • Working with different TKI modes as a facilitator
Facilitation - preparation
  • Assessing context and background
  • Group norm assessment
  • Preparation prior to facilitation
  • Facilitation plan design and refinement

  •  
facilitation - FACILITATION
  • Facilitation plan execution
  • Working with challenging situations via feedback - COIN (CORNS) model and practice
  • Facilitating decision making and action plans
  • Follow up
Facilitation practices
  • Working agreement 
  • Retrospective session
  • Discussion summary
  • Feedback to individual and group
  • Group constellation
workshop closing
  • Facilitate a situation analysis and improvement session
  • Identify new practices
  • Monthly coaching circle session introduction
  • Next steps

Certified Agile Facilitator (CAF) workshop is in general ideal for anybody who are interested in improving their facilitation skills, one of the most in-demand skills in this VUCA world.

 

Typically, our past workshop participants hold the following roles: 

  • Project/Program Managers
  • Product Owners/Product Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior technical leaders
  • Agile delivery leads
  • ScrumMaster and Agile Coaches
  • Consultants
  • Trainers

 

  • Check out all development paths with the Agile Growth Academy by Evelyn Konsult AB

 

 

Growth Paths
 

Agile Coach ScrumMaster
Pathway

Progressive LearningWith Agile Coach Mentor

 
 
Master Scrum Framework
- solid foundation
to Scrum mastery
 
 
Grow as ScrumMasters
 - essentials to support
agile teams and organization
 
Elevate mastery to
experts to
grow teams and organizations

 

Product Expert  
Pathway

Progressive LearningWith a product coach and product manager

 
 
Agile Product Essentials
- Solid Foundation
 
 
Advance Agile
Product Ownership
 
Grow into
Product Expert

 

Agile Skills Pathway

Progressive LearningGrow agile skills with a coach, coach mentor and coach trainer

 
 
Certified Agile Facilitator
- Most Thoughtafter Skills
 
 
Agile Scaling Professional
- Boost Practices at Organization Level

 

Leadership Pathway

Join our leadership program delivered to over 3000+ leaderships globally

 
 
Agile Leadership Essentials
 
Agile Leadership

 

Professional Coaching Pathway

Work with Advanced Mentor Coach

 
 
Associate Certified Coach
 
Professional Certified Coach

 

 
International Coaching Federation
Accredited Provider

 

 

 

 

Commitments

  • Preparation prior to the workshop requires approximately 60 minutes on average
  • interactive workshop with full engagements and practices in workshops
  • Practice and practices - opportunities for Q/A if needed about facilitation practice (included in the program)

Upon registration, you will receive a welcome email with Zoom interactive session information and preparation materials;

Learn, have fun and network during the workshop;

Full participation is required during the workshop.

Learning is for everyone

 

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Reviews

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