Advanced Team Coach

An Advanced Team Coach is able to build teams with high engagement and pride in delivering and handling team events (for example; formation of new teams,  new members joining)

The trademark for an Advanced Team Coach is to build the capability of the teams they coach to self-improve. Ultimately, making yourself as coach redundant. This sets the bar high. The job is not to operate a process but to improve it.

This program builds three key skills:

• Building high-performing teams
• Change leadership
• Continuous improvement

This program has been run at:

• Tobii
• Scania
• A Swedish government department

• About the program
• Being a team coach
• Coaching conversations
• Practice: Creating working agreements

• Complexity, Cynefin – choosing the right approach for the job
• Scrum fundamentals
• User stories
• Estimation
• Sprint planning
• Definition of done
• Retrospectives
• Sprint review
• Practice: My change challenge

• Flow
• Handling bottlenecks/ToC
• Queueing theory
• Systems thinking
• Approaches beyond Agile

• Learning vs. Teaching
• Drivers for learning
• Shu-Ha-Ri
• Training effectively
• Practice: Teach challenge

• Recognizing a team
• Five dysfunctions
• Team phases
• Psychological safety
• T-shaped skills
• What creates collaborative intelligence
• Being responsible – high accountability
• Environments for team success
• 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 team formation pattern
• Practice: Psychological safetey poll

• What facilitation is about
• Facilitators role & values
• Diverge techniques
• Groan zone techniques
• Converge technique
• Closure techniques
• Decision making techniques
• Co-planning/teams of teams
• Practice: Dependency map
• Practice: Facilitate a session

• “Tuning” an organization
• Organizational maturity curve
• Beyond frameworks – Understanding what matters when scaling
• Well functioning Agile teams
• Alignment & Line of sight
• Value streams
• Focus
• Minimizing pain of dependencies
• Four common causes of dependencies
• Scaling Agile
• Continuous improvement
• Practice: Revisit dependency map

• What is a team pattern?
• Stable teams
• Yesterdays weather
• Swarming
• Interupt pattern
• Clean code
• Track status and act early
• Scrumming the Scrum
• Happyness index
• Finish early
• Practice: Prepare Change challenge presentation

• Presentation: My change challenge
• What we have learned
• Changes in my team
• Changes in myself
• What’s next?
• Evaluation

A group of 5 to 10 people follow the program as one unit.  Each member commits to lead one change, one key improvement during the program “my change challenge”.

Each learning lab is one half day.

Minimum attendance is 7 out of 9 sessions.