An ICP ACC Certification is a recognition of your aptitude and skill and a way for you to validate your skills and serve your community. This certification is not a substitute for formal education; it’s a way for you to express your strengths and accomplishments, provide proof of your skill and knowledge base, and demonstrate your ability to communicate and collaborate effectively.
ICP ACC certification is the next step in the agile coaching journey and is often the capstone experience for agile coaching certification. It is designed to solidify the skill set and add additional value for the trainer and trainee and verify that you have the skills and knowledge needed to deliver agile coaching. You will also have a solid foundation in agile principles, and the ability to use these principles to coach users in any way they see fit. Thus, below are some of the skills you will develop through ICP ACC Certifications.
Coach’s responsibilities and abilities
While ICP ACC allows you to focus on coaching, you are still responsible for keeping your users safe, including teaching them the rules of no-party games and ensuring they are safe, while also considering the role you play in creating an inclusive environment. An agile coach’s responsibilities include the following, ensuring that the agile coaching style, atmosphere, and processes are inclusive, respectful, and non-judgmental. Provide coaching support, training, and guidance to teams and individuals.
Creating a positive team environment
Agile coaches focus on setting the team culture, strategy, and processes, and will provide support as they are needed. They will actively encourage their users to help shape the team culture, strategy, and processes. They will be comfortable being a coach but also be able to provide guidance and support to the team if they choose to do so and articulate the value of coaching. They will be able to assess the team. Thus, ICP ACC certification will allow you to set up a productive team environment.
Setting boundaries
Agile coaches will understand the difference between coaching and mentoring and will set boundaries to ensure that they are not crossing the line into mentoring, which would limit their ability to provide coaching. They will understand that coaching involves providing support, training, and guidance to teams and individuals, while also keeping the lines of communication open so that the user can reach them when additional support is needed. They will also be able to articulate the value of coaching and when to provide it, but also know when to back off so that the user can seek out other support if needed.
As an agile coach, ICP ACC membership will allow you to open the doors to significant opportunities. It has also been rewarding to build your skill base and to demonstrate the value of knowledge and experience. This certification will provide you with opportunities to work with agile coaches as well as maintain your agile skills and capabilities and allow you to continue to grow and learn in your agile coaching practice.
It is designed to solidify the skill set and add additional value for the trainer and trainee and verify that you have the skills and knowledge needed to deliver agile coaching.
So, to be a good teacher it’s essential to use certain teaching strategies that bring great results to be successful. And these strategies and skills can be acquired through ICP ACC certification.
