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See all- Boost Backlog Refinement through the Power of Collaborative StorytellingNeeds location
# Boost Backlog Refinement through the Power of Collaborative Storytelling
Visual techniques to align and motivate your team
with Francesco Bianchi##### Reserve your spot
When:
Wednesday 1st May at midday BST
Where:
OnlineMeetup Description
Are you tired of backlog refinement sessions that feel like a never-ending cycle of monotony, where team members zone out, and alignment remains elusive? If so, this webinar is for you!
Take advantage of this opportunity to revolutionise your backlog refinement process and unleash the full potential of your team’s creativity and collaboration.Hosted by our trainer-coach Francesco Bianchi, renowned for his visual skills, this engaging webinar will dive into the root causes of ineffective backlog refinement meetings, where misalignment and lack of shared understanding lead to wasted efforts and suboptimal results.
Traditional storytelling methods often fall short of fostering true collaboration and alignment within teams. In this webinar, you’ll discover the magic of visual techniques that tap into the collective creativity and diverse perspectives of your team members.
Through hands-on exercises and real-world examples, you’ll learn how to harness the power of collaborative storytelling, where everyone contributes their unique narratives and visualisations. By comparing and synthesising these stories, you’ll uncover deeper insights, foster shared understanding, and ultimately align your team around a clear and compelling vision. Say goodbye to boring backlog refinement sessions. Embrace a dynamic, engaging approach that motivates your team to truly collaborate and align on what matters most.
Unlock the secrets to:
- Enhancing team engagement and fostering psychological safety
- Building shared understanding through visual storytelling techniques
- Aligning your team around a cohesive vision and clear priorities
- Maximising the value of your backlog refinement sessions
- ICAgile Certified Expert in Agile Coaching Cohort ICE-ACLink visible for attendees
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
This is a paid-for program, running over 7 months and available to book via our website (link below).
We’re excited to invite you to apply for the ICAgile Certified Expert in Agile Coaching Cohort ICE-AC Program, a 7-month advanced agile coaching program that will help you deepen your coaching and leadership expertise to unleash your team’s and organisation’s potential.
With support from your expert program leads and a supportive cohort environment, you’ll learn new tools and techniques to apply with your teams, sharpen your coaching skills, and prepare for the ICAgile Certified Expert Agile Coaching ICE-AC accreditation.
Hone your expertise in these deep agile coaching skills and more..!
Enabling Teams to Achieve Their Goals Through Coaching
- Shows the dynamics present in team relationships
- Increased awareness of your “self” and deepen your understanding of who you are.
- Step into empathy to see the bigger picture of being seen and heard
- Creating an environment and safe space in coaching with presence, empathy, and trust
- Develop your listening and Somatic Awareness
- Derive powerful emergence from conflict
- Coach with emotions (both coach and coachee) and managing response
Foster Collaboration through Skilful Facilitation
- Combine facilitation with group coaching to grow people at the same time as getting stuff done
- Enhance self-awareness, group awareness, and self-regulation within group processes
- Use presence, tone of voice, posture, read the room and adapt to teams needs in the moment
Growing Capability and Confidence Through Mentorship
- Establish what you consider to be different levels of team maturity
- Leverage your own knowledge and experience without telling
- Craft mentoring options in the form of experiments
- Mentor in the moment and explain resonant choice
Nurturing Minds and Growth Through Engaging Training
- Create Somatic training for deeper learning
- Use The Facilitation Loop to prepare, facilitate and close (and follow up) sessions
- Demonstrate how to train capabilities in others
- Plan a training session with a vertical learning and growth
- Build powerpoint free training
- Train horizontal (skills), vertical (personal development), and experiential training
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM:
- 9 1/2 Deep Dive Training Days with program leaders
- 4 one2one review sessions with your program leader (1 hour)
- 4 group supervised feedback sessions with program leaders (1 hour)
- 6 cohort-led practice sessions (2 hours)
- 2 Assessment Prep & Q&A sessions (1 hour)
- 1.5 hour final assessment review
- Application work set throughout the program to integrate what you’re learning into your real-world work
- Remote support throughout the program via your dedicated private Slack Community
- Access to online content and materials via university grade learning portal
- ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching ICE-AC Certification upon successful completion of the final assessment
Program pre-requisites
- Deep knowledge in agile ways of working, frameworks and practices
- ICP-ACC certification (get certified here)
- ICP-ATF certification (get certified here)
- Commitment: at least 2 – 5 hours each week
*SEE THE FULL SCHEDULE AND APPLY ONLINE HERE*
Meet your Program Leaders:
David Lowe, ICE-AC
David is a business coach and trainer whose approach is underpinned by the belief that everyone has the right to improve their work and personal lives. When he is not training or coaching, David is researching a doctoral in coaching at Oxford Brookes University.Rafa Ribeiro, ICE-AC
Rafa is an Agile and Professional Coach, who helps his clients discover and become aware of their goals, reflect on their behaviours, and support their growth. He has extensive experience working with co-located, distributed, and fully remote teams, and enjoys helping software teams in connecting logic reasoning with creative thinking and human-centered design. Rafa is also a qualified Surf Instructor and combines coaching and surf training for transformational one2one coaching experiences. - Enterprise Coach Bootcamp (ICP-ENT & ICP-CAT) in Utrect, The NetherlandsLondon, London€2,999.00
NOTE: THIS IS A PAID-FOR COURSE, AVAILABLE TO BOOK VIA OUR WEBSITE.
Are you ready to take your enterprise coaching skills to the next level? Looking to help make your organisation more purposeful, adaptive and value-driven?
Join Kim Greenwood, ICE-EC, for our advanced Enterprise Coach Bootcamp. This intensive training program combines the ICAgile Certified Enterprise Coaching – ICP-ENT – and Coaching Agile Transitions – ICP-CAT – to equip you with the advanced understanding and skill set needed to coach at the enterprise level within an organisational change context.
With an emphasis on practical tools and techniques, you’ll gain the knowledge necessary to make a real impact in your workplace.
ABOUT THIS COURSE:
This interactive, slide-free course explores organisational development, leadership coaching, large-scale facilitation, structural and process design, organisational change process, human change process, and organisational design as well as toolkit of practical techniques that can be used right away. Whether you’re seeking to help individuals, teams, or whole organisations achieve their goals through enterprise agility, this transformative class is for you.Early bird price: €2999 + tax (VAT is chargeable at 21%)
CO-CREATE MEANINGFUL CHANGE THAT STICKS:
- Engage and help managers, leaders, and other areas outside of delivery teams, including coaching and advising skills to improve leadership relationships and effectiveness.
- Use advanced skills, tools, and techniques to coach large groups to co-create organisational change.
- Design systems that support high performance, customer focus, and agility.
- Examine how different structures, processes, and leadership qualities affect psychological safety, as well as our current levels of emotional intelligence and our ability to create and maintain safe spaces.
- Explore the limits of your own identity, decision-making, and meaning-making capabilities.
- Acquire skills, tools, and techniques to overcome dysfunctions like handoffs and waste.
- Demonstrate Lean concepts to optimise an organisation for adaptability, flow of value and feedback.
- Use the Enterprise Change Pattern to create impactful change underpinned by a people-first experiments-based approach
ACCREDITATION:
Upon successful completion of this course and practical assessment you will receive two ICAgile Certifications: the Enterprise Agile Coach (ICP-ENT) and Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT).ABOUT YOUR TRAINER:
Drawing on over 20+ years of experience empowering teams and individuals to achieve sustainable high performance, Kim Greenwood’s personalised approach has facilitated successful outcomes for large-scale, FTSE 100 corporations across industries including Telecoms and Media, Oil and Gas, Investment Banking, Real Estate and FMCG.
From within organisations, Kim has skilfully grown global portfolios, and redesigned target operating models, failure recovery and governance, while raising information fidelity, engagement and eNPS. Since 2018 she has coached C-suite teams in leadership incubators, communication intelligence, negotiation practices and how to create fearless organisations.