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    Scrum Alliance - Certified Agile Facilitator CAF

    Scrum Alliance Certification
    Unlock the power of group collaboration with our Certified Facilitation Course. Whether you're new to facilitation or looking to deepen your practice, this course equips you with practical tools, frameworks, and confidence to lead engaging, effective sessions.

    Two Day Course
    This immersive, certified 2-day workshop is designed to elevate your facilitation capabilities while nurturing emotional intelligence and strengthening core human skills.

    Through interactive exercises, you'll gain hands-on experience, refine your skills, and enhance emotional intelligence while practicing facilitation in a supportive, feedback-rich environment.

    Led by Stuart Young, a leading visual practitioner and expert in facilitation, this workshop includes unique visual thinking techniques to enhance your facilitation toolkit and empower your practice.

    Throughout the course all participants will have the opportunity to demonstrate their facilitation skills in a safe and fun environment, offering opportunities for feedback and growth.

    Key areas

    Setting the Stage
    Understanding the Group’s Context and Needs
    Agile Framework Values and Principles
    The Orientation of a Facilitator-From the Front
    Visual Thinking Skills Deep Dive
    The Orientation of a Facilitator-From the Back
    The Orientation of a Facilitator-From the Inside
    Co-Facilitation
    Facilitating Through Conflict
    Forwarding the Action

    Scrum Alliance - Certified Agile Facilitator CAF Training Information

    • What you'll come away with
    • After successfully completing the course you will be designated as a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner.
    • You will be equipped to operate effectively with a deeper entrepreneurial mindset in a more Agile product-based organisation. Driven by a better understanding of propositions competitors and product outcomes and metrics supported by results driven techniques and informed by insights while better understanding your business customers and stakeholders.
    • You will be able to:
    • Recognise organisational context that allow you to grow as a great Product Owner
    • Understand that benefits of considering the product owner as an entrepreneur and owner of a microenterprise
    • Use techniques to alleviate stakeholder conflicts and improve collaboration
    • Use a range of techniques for engaging with stakeholders to improve communication
    • Apply techniques to design and implement a product team immersion plan
    • Understand and apply a business model for a product idea
    • Develop a deeper understanding of product propositions
    • Use techniques to better understand competitor analysis and product propositions forecasts
    • Understand beyond budgeting techniques and how they differ from traditional budgeting
    • Use cost of delay and return on investment to deliver better value to customers
    • Visualise and communicate product and feature ideas and assumptions
    • Why this course?
    • Deepen your knowledge of how to become an even better product owner through wider organisational context and business acumen and business agility.
    • Become a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner.
    • Gain the best next level Scrum Professional - Product Owner accreditation to complete the triad of certifications being one of the most recognised and in demand from employers and recruiters.
    • Take a significant step in your agile journey to Certified Team Coach® or Certified Enterprise Coach®
    • What you'll come away with:
    • After validation with your coach you’ll come away as a Certified Agile Facilitator (CAF). As a facilitator you’ll have grown in confidence and knowledge and will be able to facilitate groups more effectively.
    • You’ll be able to:
    • Define facilitation and recognise when the stance is appropriate.
    • Practice effective facilitation.
    • Contract with stakeholders for group facilitation.
    • Design a facilitated session for team forming conflict psychological safety designing agreements and any other context of your choice.
    • Assess any environmental contexts and group norms that will impact the desired participation from the group.
    • Foster psychological safety in a session and repair safety when broken.
    • Hold the group's agenda during a session.
    • Demonstrate ethical facilitation.
    • Establish your facilitation presence before during and after a session.
    • Explain how a facilitator facilitates from the front side back and inside.
    • Bring skills such as listening powerful questions and feedback to your facilitation.
    • Develop your emotional intelligence as a facilitator.
    • Develop strategies to work with conflict.
    • Integrate the practice of reflection into your practice.
    • What the course includes:
    • High-quality instruction from our Certified Scrum Trainers® and Certified Agile Coaches® with many years of experience facilitating groups.
    • One coaching session to reflect on your practice
    • Course materials.
    • Certified Agile Facilitator certification on successful completion.
    • 2 years’ membership of the Scrum Alliance worth $100.
    • Contributes to evidence of facilitation experience when you apply to become a CEC or CTC.
    • Access to exclusive resources.
    • 14 Category B Professional Development Units (PDUs) can be claimed for this course.
    • 20 Scrum Education Units® (SEU's).
    • 16 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours and CPD certificate.

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    • Scrum Alliance - Certified Agile Facilitator CAF Prerequisites

      Who is this course suitable for?
      This course is ideal for leaders, managers, and coaches who want to enhance their facilitation skills to run more effective meetings and workshops, particularly in remote, hybrid, or dynamic environments. It’s also suitable for professionals looking to foster collaboration, manage challenges, and achieve better outcomes in group settings.

    • Scrum Alliance - Certified Agile Facilitator CAF Training Delivery Method

      Live Instructor Led Virtual

    • Scrum Alliance - Certified Agile Facilitator CAF Outline

      The Facilitator Stance

      Facilitation Mindset

      The Facilitation Arc

      Designing Facilitated Sessions

      Reflective Practice

      The Environment

      Psychological Safety

      Facilitation Stances

      Powerful Questions

      Listening

      Using Feedback

      Emotional Intelligence

      Conflict

      Lots and lots of reflection