9 Steps To Master Facilitation Skills
Part 1 of my seven part training series on Foundational Scrum Master skills
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Now that back-to-school is out of the way, I'm taking things up a notch.
Over the next 2+ months, I am going to share a multi-post in-depth series on skills necessary to become a Foundational Scrum Master.
The series is based on the LinkedIn post I published a couple of weeks ago called 3 Levels of Expertise in Scrum Masters — and brings me one step closer to my goal of giving every aspiring Scrum Master a handy guide to develop “real professional skills” required to become a Foundational Scrum Master.
Even if you’re not aspiring to be a Scrum Master, you’ll find inspiration, new ideas and perspectives to look at these skills from a different angle.
Here’s what’s in store:
Part 1: 9 Steps to master facilitation skills ←Current post
Part 2: Coaching Model and Mindset For Scrum Masters
Part 3: How to approach and resolve team conflicts
Part 4: How to skillfully communicate with your team
Part 5: Backlog management skills
Part 6: High-performing team-building skills
Part 7: Skills to manage stakeholders
You will find stories and lessons never shared in generic certification courses — a ton of tactical and actionable advice you can use to fill your pool of skills.
I am excited to hear what you think and evolve this work together.
Let’s start with Part 1: 9 Steps to master facilitation skills.
A huge thank you to Roger Schwarz (Author, The Skilled Facilitator), Priya Parker (Author, The Art of Gathering), Sharon Bowman (Author, Training from the Back of the Room), Esther Derby (Author Agile Retrospectives), Michael Wilkinson (Author, The Secrets of Facilitation), Harrison Owen (Author, Open Space Technology), Brian Stanfield (Author, The Art of Focused Conversation), Jean Tabaka (Author, Collaboration Explained), Sam Kaner (Author, Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making), Marsha Acker (Author, The Art & Science of Facilitation), Ingrid Bens (Author, Facilitating with Ease) for the books I consulted to write this post.