Coaching for Change: Making Agility Work
Course overview
Learn systems coaching
Your organization can gain a powerful advantage with systems coaching. This realm of agile coaching fosters holistic thinking, stronger team dynamics, and alignment across roles and departments. As someone with systems-based agile coaching skills, you'll move beyond individual coaching to address patterns, relationships, and communication across an entire system.
The modules in this course are:
- Defining the System
- Entering the System
- Revealing the System to Itself
- Working with Roles
- Navigating Conflict
- Serving the System
With what you learn in this course, you'll be ready to utilize systems coaching skills in any context—whether you're a coach, scrum master, project manager, or in another role where you want to have a bigger impact.
In this course, join Jules, a podcast host exploring the agile transformation journey of Rubber Ducky Development, a game studio. Through engaging interviews, Jules uncovers this case study to bring the concepts of systems coaching to life.
Time: 4 hours
Format: On demand
Credential: Microcredential
Prerequisites: None
What you'll get: 4 hours of on-demand learning, and a microcredential with a digital badge to showcase your new skills. On-demand content consists of audio and written material, including digital flashcards and real-world scenarios.
Who's this course for?
Coaching for Change: Making Agility Work is a great match for anyone who wants to gain in-demand coaching skills to meet the needs of today's organizations. Those who will find ready-to-use value from this course include:
- Scrum masters who are aiming to support multiple teams and foster organizational agility.
- Team leads and engineering managers who want to lead high-performing, collaborative teams.
- Agile coaches who are looking to deepen their skills in systems thinking and team dynamics.
- Product owners and product managers who are interested in improving cross-team collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
- HR professionals who are supporting agile transformations and culture change.
- Executives and senior leaders who are leading or sponsoring agile initiatives and seeking systemic impact.
Unmatched quality and scale
"As an Agile Coach, I highly recommend this course for its comprehensive approach to developing essential coaching skills."
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Is a microcredential worth it?
Microcredentials are a great way to continually add new skills with fast and flexible formats. Here are just a few reasons microcredential training is a worthwhile investment for you and your team.
- Focused expertise — gain specialized knowledge in a specific area
- Flexible learning — learn the way you prefer by choosing from live or on-demand learning formats
- Cost-effective — typically less expensive than certifications or degree programs
- Relevant — topics prioritized to cover industry trends and emerging technologies
- Expedient — earn a credential in hours as opposed to weeks, months, or years
- Recognizable — validated by Scrum Alliance, a globally recognized credentialing body
- Practical — build skills and knowledge immediately applicable in your role
- Stackable — combine microcredentials to build comprehensive learning pathways
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Interested in purchasing this course for more than one person? We can help.
Overall, you'll learn the definition of systems coaching, its benefits, and its core principles. This course also digs into details like assessing roles within a system, identifying power dynamics, facilitating healthy conflict resolution, and more.
This course has no prerequisites, and you don't need to be an agile coach to take it. Coaching for Change, and all other Scrum Alliance coaching microcredentials, are designed for people from any role and background who want to gain the skills to coach teams and organizations to become more agile.
Systems coaching matters today because everything is more connected and complex. With these coaching skills, you'll be ready to help people work better together by focusing on how they relate, not just what they do. This leads to smarter solutions and lasting change.
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