Beneficial Consulting Limited

Developing Agile Coaches, 14-week Training Program with Jon Ward
2023-06-12 10:00 - 2023-06-23 16:00 (Europe/London) | ONLINE
IMPORTANT
The Training Program will take place online. After registration, you will receive additional information on how to join the sessions.

Course Overview
This highly interactive fourteen-week program is designed to assist experienced Scrum Masters and Product Owners to become more effective as Agile Coaches enabling them to support multiple teams and teams of teams. This training activity employs an apprenticeship style of learning consisting of theory and supported practice.By design, this course encourages a deep understanding of Agile conventions and practices through the practical application of skills, observation, analysis of team behavior and performance, and undertaking a range of interventions based upon Agile wisdom.We have a structured curriculum so that there is a two-hour training module every week for fourteen weeks. The participants will be working with teams for the practical application of new and existing skills. In addition to interactive classroom sessions, there are significant elements of self-study, reading academic articles, referring to Agile wisdom, and instructional videos.This training is an in-depth capability development activity. Each week, working with learning buddies, participants will review their learning and plan practical interventions with their teams. The course involves blended learning and coaching practice, using intervention techniques, involving advanced Agile wisdom.
Course Content
The course starts with some self-awareness exercises, moving on to the creation of foundational knowledge of coaching Agile teams and then builds upon that knowledge in the subsequent training sessions and practical exercises.Most modules comprise behavioral analysis, team performance improvements, and intervention techniques based on The Agile Coaching Competency Framework. The training establishes the use of evidence-based coaching and coach’s performance improvement using techniques such as self-analysis and reflective practice.Related self-study sessions comprise the readings of papers, instructional videos, and practical exercises. This course provides a learning-by-doing experience. An amount of ad hoc support is also available for participants who encounter practical challenges when working with their teams.
Learning Objectives
This framework-agnostic course is intended to give individuals’ a clear, pragmatic understanding of the art of Agile coaching. It encourages coaches to become life-long learners aware of Agile innovations and current practice. It outlines how to inspire, train, and empower Agile practitioners as individuals, as teams, and as teams of teams.Throughout this program, individuals learn and practice progressively more complex skills increasing their Agile mastery, self-awareness, and behavioral understanding. Through reflective practice and working with their coaching buddy, they seek self-development and continuous improvement. A fundamental tenet of this course is seeking performance improvement of the coach and their teams. Following this course participants will be able to:• Understand a four-level coaching impact model; self, team, program, and enterprise in the context of defining a coach’s development path.• Be aware that Agile wisdom is vast, impossible for an individual to master its entirety. Knowing when to look for help when additional mastery is required.• The Coach as an Agile role model with the emotional intelligence able to enable, support, and develop single teams and teams of teams.• Be able to plan and coordinate big room planning events for Agile programs.• Understand how to use the techniques of team analysis, intervention planning, and reflective practice to improve coaching performance and prevent team performance plateaus.• Understand the techniques and skills needed to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within an Agile team.• Advise teams on the use of advanced Agile techniques using guided retrospectives.• Understand the approaches to Agile QA and be able to coach teams in their application at a foundational level.• Understand how value streams are used in Lean to define and evaluate opportunities to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Audience
This training is designed for individuals, senior executives, and Agile Coaches who wish to optimize and organize their Enterprise Agility design.
Pre-requisites
This course is for people who have experience in agile ways of working and who wish to improve as Agile coaches. Beyond this, there are no other pre-requisites.
Course Preparation
This course does not have any pre-course preparation.
Training Roadmap:

Download the Brochure

Reserve Your Spot

Agile Lineout, an Alternative to Scrum Webinar
2021-09-08 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
In this webinar, Jon Ward will outline a new way to plan and manage software and non-software Agile teams. All frameworks are not perfect and all have gaps. However, Jon found some constancy in the gaps his teams were finding. The result is a new way of mobilizing and engaging people in Agile ways of working.
It’s not Scrum, it’s not Kanban, it’s something new – a new way to Enterprise Agility.
—
About Jon Ward
Jon is a DA SSM and SPC who has over 20 years of technology and business change consultancy experience. Currently coaching a Business Agility program within a 5 000 people division of an international corporation, Jon has found some coaches need techniques to improve their performance. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published “Agile Coach’s Cookbook”. Jon describes himself as an Agile catalyst who is framework agnostic, which means that he helps organizations change themselves to produce improved bottom-line results by adopting Agile.
—
Thank you for your interest in our Webinar!
Please, visit the LinkedIn Event Page, so you can stay updated with the latest news, ask questions and collaborate with the other members. This is where THE LINK FOR THE WEBINAR WILL BE POSTED.
Looking forward to seeing you on the 8th of September!
The Beneficial Consulting Team

Agile Team Metrics - Radiators, Dashboards, Status Reports Webinar (Recording)
2021-07-01 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
Beyond the traditional Agile metrics of velocity and lead time, what metrics can be used to give a team indications of how effective or efficient they are? How does a team improve its performance using metrics? When should the team analyze its performance? Can progression metrics influence solution design? In this webinar, Jon Ward will suggest a range of metrics that a team may use to monitor and enhance its performance to create value.
—
About Jon Ward
Jon is a DA SSM and SPC who has over 20 years of technology and business change consultancy experience. Currently coaching a Business Agility program within a 5 000 people division of an international corporation, Jon has found some coaches need techniques to improve their performance. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published “Agile Coach’s Cookbook”. Jon describes himself as an Agile catalyst who is framework agnostic, which means that he helps organizations change themselves to produce improved bottom-line results by adopting Agile.
—
Thank you for your interest in our Webinar!
Please, visit the LinkedIn Event Page, so you can stay updated with the latest news, ask questions and collaborate with the other members. This is where THE LINK FOR THE WEBINAR WILL BE POSTED.
Looking forward to seeing you on the 8th of September!
The Beneficial Consulting Team

Designing Agile Teams Webinar (Recording)
2021-06-09 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
Much is spoken about Agile at Scale and Teams of Teams, but how do you design an Agile Team? What are the considerations for designing teams? What happens if a team is made up of people from several time zones? What are the alternative structures which can be employed?
In this webinar, Jon Ward will outline his experiences from working with multi-national teams in Banking and Telecoms sectors.
—
About Jon Ward
Jon is a DA SSM and SPC who has over 20 years of technology and business change consultancy experience. Currently coaching a Business Agility program within a 5 000 people division of an international corporation, Jon has found some coaches need techniques to improve their performance. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published “Agile Coach’s Cookbook”. Jon describes himself as an Agile catalyst who is framework agnostic, which means that he helps organizations change themselves to produce improved bottom-line results by adopting Agile.
—
Thank you for your interest in our Webinar!
Please, visit the LinkedIn Event Page, so you can stay updated with the latest news, ask questions and collaborate with the other members. This is where THE LINK FOR THE WEBINAR WILL BE POSTED.
Looking forward to seeing you on the 8th of September!
The Beneficial Consulting Team

Agile Lineout, A New Way to Enterprise Agility Webinar
2021-05-05 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
In this webinar, Jon Ward will outline a new way to plan and manage software and non-software Agile teams. All frameworks are not perfect and all have gaps. However, Jon found some constancy in the gaps his teams were finding. The result is a new way of mobilizing and engaging people in Agile ways of working.
It’s not Scrum, it’s not Kanban, it’s something new – a new way to Enterprise Agility.
—
About Jon Ward
Jon is a DA SSM and SPC who has over 20 years of technology and business change consultancy experience. Currently coaching a Business Agility program within a 5 000 people division of an international corporation, Jon has found some coaches need techniques to improve their performance. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published “Agile Coach’s Cookbook”. Jon describes himself as an Agile catalyst who is framework agnostic, which means that he helps organizations change themselves to produce improved bottom-line results by adopting Agile.
—
Thank you for your interest in our Webinar!
Please, visit the LinkedIn Event Page, so you can stay updated with the latest news, ask questions and collaborate with the other members. This is where THE LINK FOR THE WEBINAR WILL BE POSTED.
Looking forward to seeing you on the 5th of May!
The Beneficial Consulting Team

Purposeful Retrospectives Webinar with Jon Ward (Recording)
2021-04-14 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
Details
This webinar is the third in the series for Agile Coaches. When considering team performance, the Retrospective is probably the second most crucial Scrum event. Yet it is the event that often presents coaches with the most significant challenge.
Why? Is there something wrong with the way we approach the Retrospective? As defined by Scrum, is the event poorly designed?
This webinar will present a no-holds-barred review of the Retrospective. It will suggest alternative approaches designed to meet the Scrum Guides statement, “The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness”. Oh, and I expect readers to ask the most important Scrum event when considering team performance is Backlog Refinement!
About Jon Ward
Jon is a DA SSM and SPC who has over 20 years of technology and business change consultancy experience. Currently coaching a Business Agility program within a 5 000 people division of an international corporation, Jon has found some coaches need techniques to improve their performance. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published “Agile Coach’s Cookbook”. Jon describes himself as an Agile catalyst who is framework agnostic, which means that he helps organizations change themselves to produce improved bottom-line results by adopting Agile.
—
Thank you for your interest in our Webinar!
Please, visit the LinkedIn Event Page, to register for the event, stay updated with the latest news, ask questions and collaborate with the other members. This is where you will find THE LINK FOR THE WEBINAR.
Looking forward to seeing you on the 14th of April!

The Beneficial Consulting Team

Coaching Agile Interventions Webinar with Jon Ward (Recording)
2021-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
Details
In this webinar, Enterprise Coach, Jon Ward will outline how an Agile Coach mirrors a sports coach by using different intervention styles depending upon current team behavior, the team’s objectives, and the coach’s desired outcome.
Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches support Agile teams. The question is how they do this. What are the appropriate behaviors, the skills required, and what techniques can they use in an intervention with a team?
– We will outline the appropriate use of the intervention styles.
– When to use each style – based on the situation of your team.
– How to coach each style – the coaching stance, and questions used.
– The preparation required for a successful intervention.
– Measuring outcomes.
– Using the Deming cycle to improve future interventions.
We will consider if being a Servant Leader is “good enough” to develop high-performing teams. If not, what alternative coaching behaviors are appropriate?
About Jon Ward
Jon is a DA SSM and SPC who has over 20 years of technology and business change consultancy experience. Currently coaching a Business Agility program within a 5 000 people division of an international corporation, Jon has found some coaches need techniques to improve their performance. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published “Agile Coach’s Cookbook”. Jon describes himself as an Agile catalyst who is framework agnostic, which means that he helps organizations change themselves to produce improved bottom-line results by adopting Agile.
—
Thank you for your interest in our Webinar!
This event is in the past. You can watch the recording on YouTube.

The Beneficial Consulting Team

Agile Coaching for Performance Webinar with Jon Ward
2021-02-17 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
Details
Implementing Agile is not merely a matter of training! It’s also about the coaching and the support of management and teams while they apply their training, practicing, and learning new skills and behaviors.
Adopting Agile is a significant endeavor and typically coaching is undertaken while operational activities continue. It is, therefore, essential that a coach’s plan is seen in the light of minimizing the risk to current business operations. Using an evidence-based approach encourages the coach and the team to consider the science or the Agile wisdom on which they are planning to build their improvements. It clearly presents the reasons why the proposed actions will succeed.
In this webinar, Jon Ward will outline how individual coaches can improve their coaching skills and how teams of coaches can orchestrate their activities to magnify their impact. Based on principles from sports coaching, Jon’s materials will help coaches seeking relentless improvement of themselves!
About Jon Ward
Jon is a DA SSM and SPC who has over 20 years of technology and business change consultancy experience. Currently coaching a Business Agility program within a 5 000 people division of an international corporation, Jon has found some coaches need techniques to improve their performance. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published “Agile Coach’s Cookbook”. Jon describes himself as an Agile catalyst who is framework agnostic, which means that he helps organizations change themselves to produce improved bottom-line results by adopting Agile.

Thank you for your interest in our Webinar!
The Beneficial Consulting Team
