Epic Facilitation
We're offering remote versions of our much loved facilitation class to help people with these challenges. Optimized for remote learning, this course will help you prepare and practice to achieve your meeting goals.
We may be experiencing unprecedented challenges in our work and personal lives, but one thing remains constant: people. People stay the same, and learning how to work with people no matter the circumstances is a critical skill.
Help your team get excited and engaged! If you are currently a Scrum Master, a Release Train Engineer, XP Coach, Agile Coach or Agile Leader – this class is for you!
Balanced Agility Facilitator’s class provides you with hands on experience in improving your facilitation skills. This highly interactive workshop with more than 40 hands on activities designed to build and improve your Agile team facilitation skills. We will learn and practice the fundamentals of facilitation and bring in concepts from cognitive neuroscience to improve how we engage others. We will go through the core agile meetings to give you a few ways to facilitate your teams at different levels of team maturity. Acting as a skilled and effective facilitator is a great step forward in building high performing Agile teams and in becoming an effective Agile coach.
Prerequisites: any 2 day introduction to Agile or currently acting in the role of Scrum Master, XP Coach, Agile Coach or similar Agile execution leadership role.
In this class you will:
Building off of Training from the BACK of the room we will explore how cognitive neuroscience research can help us engaging others in a more fun and exciting way to achieve more.
Plan and conduct effective Agile ceremonial meetings at varying levels of team maturity so your facilitation can increase as your teams level of performance increase
How to specifically facilitate the common practices of Agile Teams: release and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, as well as project chartering and product roadmapping
Group facilitation tools and techniques for effectively designing meetings and workshops that both engage the entire audience and drives toward agreed-upon outcomes
Develop an appreciation for the art of facilitation as key to fostering collaboration and enabling self-organizing teams
Diagnosing and handling dysfunctional teams
Out of this class, you will receive:
A full tool kit of facilitation principles, techniques and practices, along with hands-on experience in their application.
The how and why of what we do here at Balanced Academy
We use highly interactive virtual experience techniques from the NeuroLeadership Institute.
Complete assignments and go in-depth on session topics from anywhere 24 hrs a day 7 days a week.
You will have the opportunity to get to know and network with like minded peers through group activities and assignments.
At Balanced Academy we strive to make learning fun and we want to teach you how to do the same.
I strongly believe in people’s greatness and I have spent the past 20 years focused on helping others achieve more while delivering great products. As a lean/agile practitioner and Co-Active coach I work with individuals, teams and organizations to reach higher levels. Using the right balance of teaching, mentoring and coaching I share my passion hoping to ignite the greatness I see in others. I believe leaders, at all levels of the organization, are the true drivers of transformation. I hope to ignite the spark in everyone so they create the world they strive for.
Jolene Jangles CEO and Transformation CoachI am Joe Ziadeh. I am passionate about brains (but I am not a zombie). I specialize in the science behind how our brains react to learning and change. I've been working in Agile and IT for 20 years, in a variety of fun and interesting roles. Currently I'm the Chief Story Teller and Innovation Artist for Balanced Agility, speaker at a number of Agile conferences, and Instructor of Agile Courses in the Washington University Technology Leadership Center.
Joe Ziadeh Chief Storyteller and Innovation Artist