October 14th, 2021
(Can't make it? Get a ticket anyway. There'll be replays ;-)
Keynote by Lyssa Adkins // 6 Sessions by Expert Coaches
If you’re like most agilists, you’re constantly looking to improve how you help others.
After all, helping others be their best is what you do, right?
And you know that to help others, YOU need to continue to learn and grow too.
Thankfully, there’s a TON of agile content available to you: Courses, Certifications, Books, Youtube Videos, Meetups, Facebook Groups, and Conferences just to name a few.
In fact, the list goes on and on…
Frankly, it can be a bit overwhelming.
In a sea of so many options, it can often feel like you’re treading water looking for the right thing to grab onto.
When you do finally find something, how do you know that the thing you reach for will help you and your team sail to success, or if it’ll just pull you under the next wave that comes by?
The truth is, without spending A LOT of time evaluating your options – time you probably don’t have – you’re likely to eventually grab onto the wrong thing. Grabbing onto just one wrong thing can drag you down, causing you weeks or months of frustration and pain.
But don’t worry…
There’s good news for passionate busy agilists like you…
Since early 2020 we’ve been hosting large online events to help agilists just like you improve their craft.
Tens of THOUSANDS of people have registered for our summits, and attended sessions by the biggest names in agile.
As the first to host large agile events online during the pandemic, we’ve gotten extremely good at creating an environment that builds community online.
People in our community love our events.
Our last 5-day event had a Net Promoter score of 75 (for reference, Apple Computer has a score of 47, and Starbucks has a 77).
Folks in our community leave our events happy, energized, and ready to take action.
Improving your coaching couldn’t be easier.
Just show up to our FREE event, and select the curated sessions that speak to you most.
You’ll leave with actionable steps you can put into practice right away.
This year, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in LIVE accountability triads 7 days after the event. As part of the Agile Virtual Summit community you can ensure YOU take action to improve your agile coaching.
If you want to feel refreshed and reconnected to your agile community, you're in the right place!
Best of all?
It's 100% FREE!
That’s right, we’re not charging for the LIVE 1-day summit, so it’s a no-brainer… grab your ticket now!
...An opening keynote by none other than Lyssa Adkins (author of Coaching Agile Teams, and co-founder of the Agile Coaching Institute).
...SEVEN world-class agile coaches, who's sessions will help you improve your coaching craft.
You’ll leave this bite-sized summit with the latest coaching tips, tricks and tools that you can use back at work right away. The summit may be short, but the value you get from these sessions will last you for years to come.
Feeling social? Join us for the optional Open Space on day two. Connect with other coaches from around the world, make new friends, and go deeper into the content from the summit together.
Feeling stuck? The Open Space is a fantastic place to get help with challenges you're facing at work, or to get a chance to help others with your knowledge and experience.
Keeping up with your professional development requirements can be hard. Attend the summit and earn continuing education credits (PDUs and SEUs) so your certifications don’t lapse.
Since this event is live, you’ll enjoy the opportunity to interact with speakers during Q&A in each session.
Lyssa Adkins believes that Agile is a brilliant, emergent response to help us thrive in our ever-increasingly complex, changeable and interconnected world.
Her current focus is coaching Leadership Teams to take up the Agile transformation that is theirs to do — on both a personal and group level.
For many years she has been a passionate contributor to the discipline and profession of Agile Coaching and has trained many thousands of agilists in the knowledge, skills, and mindsets needed to coach teams and organizations to get full benefits of Agile.
On November 10th, she'll be here to help YOU.
Don't miss her opening keynote What is the Agile Coach's DNA?
The #1 superskill you can develop to increase success, flow and satisfaction
How just showing up as yourself adds value
Exactly what makes someone a REAL Agile Coach
How to help a team go from tone-deaf group of people, to a pitch perfect high performing team (w/ the help of Whoopi Goldberg)
How to awaken the agile coach within (regardless of your title at work)
The 6 distinct vantage points in product leadership you can use to coach your product leaders
Thursday November 10, 2022 @ 9AM - 9:15AM PT (12PM - 12:15PM ET)
Thursday November 10, 2022 @ 9:15AM - 10:15AM PT (12:15PM - 1:15PM ET)
It’s time for us to express some of the advanced capabilities of our Agile Coaching DNA, to lift up our heads and see with new eyes the underlying patterns that either support or hinder our best efforts to help teams, value streams, and whole organizations change.
In this keynote, we will explore what it means to start working on the human systems level and stop getting trapped in the everyday ebb and flow of events, personalities, wins and challenges.
We will look at our role in transformations head-on as we will explore some bold questions:
Let Lyssa Adkins, Agility & Leadership Coach, take you on an exploration of adult human development, values memes, systems coaching and the essence of Agile to find answers to these questions.
Along the way, Lyssa will reveal one of the genes already in our DNA that we need to “upregulate” and make more active so that a key superskill can emerge.
No, the superskill is not listening.
It’s not even asking powerful questions.
Come to the keynote to find out what it is…what one superskill you can develop to increase success, flow and satisfaction. You just might be surprised!
Thursday November 10, 2022 @ 10:30AM - 11:15AM PT (1:30PM - 2:15PM ET)
As the world has become more technically enabled and automated, machines have taken over many transactional tasks humans once did. That same technology has created new opportunities and challenges that are most effectively solved by people working closely together with high levels of interdependence and creativity. Creating the conditions for this has proven equally desirable and elusive regardless of its growing criticality.
Yet, what if making simple changes to how we use language and what we focus on were able to shift the likelihood of inviting collaborations? What if we had proven ways to renew ourselves and others and thus be more resilient to the challenges we inevitably face? And what if those acts of renewal happen to enable us to learn and grow into new ways of thinking and behaving?
Eliciting the Positive Emotional Attractor (PEA) is an experiential talk drawing on research and techniques in cognitive science, psychology, organizational behavior, and more. Participants will be briefed on and invited to experience the PEA and corresponding Negative Emotional Attractor (NEA) directly. We will, together, discuss considerations for knowledge work, including ethics.
Thursday November 10, 2022 @ 10:30AM - 11:15AM PT (1:30PM - 2:15PM ET)
Many of us start our agile careers as scrum masters. Often, new scrum masters think their job is to make sure the team follows scrum practices and theory.
But this approach can quickly lead to teams falling into the trap of just going through the motions without seeing the performance improvements they should. And sadly, new scrum masters often can't figure out how to help.
What's missing in these cases?
Coaching.
In this session, Kadidra will share the "aha moment" that changed everything for her, and set her on the path from "just a scrum master" to "a coach".
It's a realization that can help you too.
If you find that you're just focusing on the Team level of things, and are concerned you're not actually helping the organization and individuals, this session is for you.
You'll leave this session with a plan for tapping into your inner agile coach so that you can stop longing for agile coaches at your organization to "save" you and your team. If you feel like you're just "going through the motions" and don't know how to make that shift from good to great, this session is for you.
After all, you are not "just a scrum master".
Thursday November 10, 2022 @ 10:30AM - 11:15AM PT (1:30PM - 2:15PM ET)
What makes someone a REAL Agile Coach?
Some people think that spending some money and a few days in a workshop does the trick. Then there are those that think Agile Coaching is all about the coaching stance.
Over 89,000 people on LinkedIn think they are Agile Coaches judging by the use of the title in their profiles.
But what separates all these Agile coaches from the professional Agile coach?
As Agile has become mainstream and one of the dominant ways of doing work, we are finding defining what an Agile Coach is has become a lot harder.
The Agile Coaching Growth Wheel is an open-source project of experienced Agilists seeking to “Professionalize the World of Agile Coaching”. This ongoing project seeks to define what are the competencies involved in Agile Coaching and give a common way of measuring those competencies.
Come learn about the wheel and how you can take a self-assessment to see where you are on the journey of Agile coaching.
Thursday November 10, 2022 @ 11:30AM - 12:15PM PT (2:30PM - 3:15PM ET)
If you’re a beginning scrum master or agile coach, and you’re wondering which steps to take to get your team to go from a group of individuals to a high performing team, this is the movie…euh…talk for you! Using the 1992 movie ‘Sister Act’ as a case study, Carmen will explain how our initially reluctant scrum master, Sister Mary Clarence (Whoopi Goldberg), takes on the challenge of coaching a struggling choir of nuns and what she does to guide them towards achieving a perfect harmony. Summarizing and highlighting the steps Sister Mary Clarence took to achieve a high performing choir, Carmen will explain why these steps could also work for any beginning scrum master or agile coach.
Thursday November 10, 2022 @ 11:30AM - 12:15PM PT (2:30PM - 3:15PM ET)
How can we support our product leaders in attending to the inherent complexities of their daily work and informed decision-making?
In this interactive talk, Anjali and Nadezhda will help you learn and experience the pulling forces and shapeshifting power of essential perspectives on product reality through the Product Leadership Stances™. With the help of six distinct lenses you will learn to recognize the key competencies and areas of focus needed by product leaders in different contexts.
Leave this session with a powerful model to help your Product Leaders make meaning of their role, guide them in their professional development, and creatively navigate their ever-changing product landscape.
Thursday November 10, 2022 @ 11:30AM - 12:15PM PT (2:30PM - 3:15PM ET)
This session will discuss how bringing yourself fully to work benefits you and your organization. There are three main components within this topic.
Andrea's goal is to lead with curiosity and empathy and to illuminate the beauty of being human, changing and truly being Agile.
Thursday November 10, 2022 @ 12:30PM - 1:15PM PT (3:30PM - 4:15PM ET)
Hi, I’m Adam.
You might know me from such hit YouTube videos as "Sh!t Bad Scrum Masters Say", my training materials like Build Your Own Scrum, or Recess (my retrospective-in-a-box).
If there's one thing I know, it's how to make learning about your team, your product, and yourself fun...
Which is why I've assembled this fantastic group of agilists for the Agile Virtual Summit, Coaching Edition.
Like you, I’m spread thin these days… but I’m setting aside 4 hours for some valuable agile goodness on November 10th.
Join us at the summit and have some fun.
Stay agile. Never change.
