Facilitation is one of the highly thought after skills and most appreciated skills in workplace.

The Certified Facilitator (CF) program is to grow participants’ mindset, knowledge and ability in the area of professional facilitation. Effectively facilitating a group or team toward co-created, meaningful and committed outcomes is a core agile coaching competency as well asa a skill necessary for effective leadership.

The CF program supports the growth of participants and helps with challenges from real working environments. While participants advances their facilitation skills, participants also support their teams and organizations to advance.

Facilitation is one of the highly thought after skills and most appreciated skills in workplace. So this program is intended for anybody working in an Agile context.

This course is for people who are and/or will be working in an Agile context:

• Product people (product manager, product owner) to facilitate workshops with stakeholders
• Project manager
• People manager
• ScrumMaster and Agile Coaches wanting to advance their facilitation skills
• Individuals who want to develop themselves on the path of Agile Coach
• Anybody who wants to learn about group facilitation

The Certified Facilitator does not require prior learning. Though anybody who doesn’t understand Agile and Scrum, some preparation work has to be done to work with facilitation in an Agile context.

• Integrate your existing knowledge and skills to unleash your facilitation potentials
• Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace
• Stand out in your industry as an advanced member of the globally recognized community
• Support your teams and organizations advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional
• Deep dive of an in-demand skill that goes beyond technique alone and explores the mindset of a facilitator
• Live, immersive facilitation practice
  
• Membership with the Scrum Alliance

At the Enterprise Coaching Institute, we deliver our training programs based on the most recent neuroscience insights on adult learning.
In summary, this means trusting that we accompany mature and self-responsible people, and we offer them alternating learning formats that ideally complement each other according to the latest findings in adult education:

Simulation sessions:
We all have many challenges and experiences from real work situation. Role plays give opportunities to participants to work with real life challenges by acting into the situation and learn about insights to facilitate .

Group work:
We are all different - different mental models, different experiences, different backgrounds, different culture and different challenges. Through group work, participants get to work with theory to practices, and advance together through collaborative learning.

Practice facilitation in real work environment:
Learning is in its full power when it is applied in real work environment, reflected and improved. 
Participants will design facilitation plan, faclitate in real work situations, and come back for further learning and reflection. Participants can select from a list of popular Agile and Scrum related events to practice with. Commonly, participants practice their faclitation learning with the following topics: 
Product backlog refinement

• Sprint planning with multiple teams
• Sprint review with multiple teams and multiple stakeholders
• Sprint retrospective of different teams and at scale
• Organization level retrospective
• ScrumMaster community related
• Product Owner community related
• Story mapping workshop
• Product visioning workshop
• Product strategy related workshops
• Product roadmap planning sessions
• Stakeholder alignment workshop
• Leadership learning related
• Value stream mapping workshop
• OKR workshop
• and more...
  

• Facilitation Fundamentals
• Facilitation Essentials
  • Emotional Intelligence and Facilitation
  • Facilitating through conflicts
  • Fostering and Repairing Psychological Safety

• Facilitation Stages
  • Assessing Group’s Context and Needs
  • Designing Facilitation Plan
  • Forwarding the Action
• Orientation of A Facilitator
  • Facilitating from front, side, back and inside
• Meta skills
• Deep democracy
• Co-facilitation
  • Designing co-facilitation plan
  • Co-facilitation in action
• Facilitation Practice and Advancement

We offer the program in the following Languages: