ICP-ENT - ICAgile Enterprise Agile Coaching

What is this course? 

The ICAgile Certified Professional - Enterprise Agile Coaching (ICP-ENT) is a highly sought-after course for coaches who wish to support organisations in their journey towards business agility.

The course covers essential skills such as enterprise agile coaching, systems and complexity theory, and ethical considerations for agile coaches. Additionally, it explores the intricacies of organisation design, business process and improvement, and coaching across the organisation, providing learners with the knowledge and tools to catalyse the adaptation and transformation of business agility.

ICP-ENT is ideal for those with experience in business and management consulting, program and change management, and complex adaptive systems. It is perfect for coaches who want to expand their skill set and help organisations create a culture of resilience, flexibility, and freedom to meet their goals and achieve their purpose no matter what the future brings.

Why get ICAgile certified?

ICAgile certification is recognised globally as a mark of excellence in Agile coaching. By getting certified, you'll gain access to a community of like-minded professionals and demonstrate your expertise and knowledge to potential employers.

What is the value of this ICP-ENT course?

• Enhance your coaching skills: Learn advanced techniques and develop a deeper understanding of systems and complexity theory to coaching teams and organisations towards business agility effectively.

• Gain enterprise-level expertise: Acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to work with organisational structures and culture, develop leaders, manage change, and lead complex adaptive systems in larger organisations.

• Stay relevant in a dynamic marketplace: Learn how to apply current and emerging business agility thinking and models to support the transition towards business agility in a constantly changing market environment.

• Join a community of like-minded professionals to develop and grow together.

What will you learn? 

The course is split into four key areas of Enterprise Agile Coaching.

Enterprise and Business Agility: This section explores the importance of agility in business and the systems and complexity theories underpinning agile processes.

Understanding the Organisation: This section delves into organisation design and structure, business processes and improvement, and how to measure business performance with agility in mind.

Coaching Across the Organization: This section covers systems coaching, the value of applying systems coaching skills across the enterprise, and the differences between consulting and professional coaching.

Facilitating the Organization: This section focuses on the skills required to create an environment of collaboration supporting an organisation's journey towards business agility, including boundary-spanning facilitation techniques.

What topics are covered?

Here are just some of the many topics included

• Enterprise and business agility

• Systems and complexity theory

• Enterprise agile coaching skills

• Ethical considerations of enterprise agile coaching

• Organisation design and structure

• Scaling agile frameworks for the organisation

• Awareness of organisational structure and design

• Business process and improvement

• Business performance measurements with agility in mind

• Coaching the organisation

• Systems coaching complements agile enterprise coaching.

• Consulting vs professional coaching

• Boundary-spanning facilitation considerations

• Boundary-spanning facilitation techniques

What will you receive?

You will receive the ICAgile Certified Professional - Enterprise Agile Coaching (ICP-ENT) Certification upon completing the course.

The certification will not expire and is a valuable industry-known certificate.

This course is worth 15 SEUs towards Scrum Alliance renewal requirements. 

What about exams and assessments?

The instructors assess the course during the training feedback is provided if you are likely to need additional support before you can pass.

Who is this course suitable for?

This course suits individuals looking to develop their enterprise agile coaching skills and become an ICAgile Certified Professional in Enterprise Agile Coaching. It is ideal for:

• Agile coaches who want to expand their skills beyond the team level

• Scrum Masters and Agile Project Managers who are involved in scaling agile across the enterprise

• Change agents who want to drive agile adoption and transformation across the organisation

• Business leaders who want to develop the knowledge and skills to lead their organisation towards business agility

• Consultants who want to help organisations achieve their agility goals

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

To attend this course, individuals should have experience in the following areas:

• Enterprise Agile Coaching: The learner should have some experience in coaching at an enterprise level.

• Agile Mindset: The learner should have an Agile mindset and experience working with Agile teams, principles, and frameworks.

• Agile Coaching: The learner should have experience coaching teams using Agile methodologies and completed ICAgile's Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) course or equivalent experience.

How should I prepare for this course?

Prework is provided to prepare you for the course. However, reflecting on your experiences and challenges related to agile transformation, leadership, and coaching may be helpful. These can provide a valuable foundation for learning and application during the course. Finally, be prepared to engage in class discussions, activities, and assignments actively, as this course emphasises practical application and hands-on learning.

Will I need any equipment for the course?

As this is an online course, you will need a computer with a camera and a headset. You will also need to install the zoom client and be able to use mural, a virtual whiteboard application. For security reasons, we highly recommend you use a personal computer on our public courses whenever possible.

What makes us different?

Each class has ICF-certified trainers, ORSC Trained and Training from the BACK of the Room! Trainers, along with their specialisms, few other providers come close to this level of expertise.

In addition, all of our Trainers are Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coaches, which means their peers have assessed them as experts in agile coaching and can also provide mentoring for aspiring CTCs and CECs. We are the only Scrum Alliance Coaches running this course in the UK and one of a handful worldwide.

We co-train whenever possible. When learning a new skill, you need as much support as possible, and diversity of experience and opinion is essential.

We provide more than just a course but provide FREE access to a learning community that will support you along your agile journey.