Ready to Coach: Self-paced

Our “Ready to Coach: Self-paced” course is for individual learners looking to grasp dojo concepts and coaching techniques. This program requires an estimated 15-20 hours of work. Students have 6-months to complete the program at their own pace.

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Learning Outcomes

Build the confidence and capability you need to be successful in dojo coaching. Learn from a pioneer in the approach.

Adopt the dojo coach’s mindset—principles, traits, modes of engagement, and the coaching behaviors that lead to successful coaching engagements.
Join and contribute to dojo initiatives, develop learning playbooks, and build shared visual representations of a team’s workflow, product architecture, and deployment pipelines.
Fluently interact with the stages of the dojo team experience: onboarding, framing, discovery, iteration, exit, and post-dojo support.
Employ the facilitation playbook common to dojo challenges—framing, planning, mob programming, sharing, reflection, and more.

Curriculum

Proceed at a pace comfortable to you.

1. A Message From Your Instructor
2. How to Use This Course
3. Course Resources & Requirements
4. Resource: Dojo Coach's Playbook
1. Objectives
1. Introduction
2. What's a dojo?
3. Why do dojos work?
4. Dojos in the Industry
5. Dojo Principles
1. The Dojo Coach's Mindset
2. Traits of Successful Dojo Coaches
3. Key Coaching Activities
4. Types of Coaches
5. The Rewards and Challenges of Dojo Coaching
6. Managing Work-in-Progress & Sustainable Pace
1. Objectives
1. Introduction
2. Lead Generation
3. Intake
4. 6-week Challenge
5. Post-challenge Support
1. Introduction
2. The Challenge Playbook
3. Designing Your Own Playbooks
4. Good Practice and Playbooks
5. Resource: "Google Ventures Design Sprint" Example Playbook
6. Resource: "Adopt TDD" Example Playbook
7. Exercise: Select a Playbook Idea & Learning Objective
1. Objectives
1. Intake
2. Consultation
3. Framing
4. Now / Not Yet Decisions
5. Resource: Challenge Frame Mural Example
6. Exercise: Adding Purposes & Success Measures to Your Playbook
1. Objectives
1. Introduction
2. Discovery & Mapping
3. Plan
4. Do
5. Share
6. Reflect
7. Exit & Post-dojo Support
8. Exercise: Preconditions & Related Playbooks
9. Exercise: Your Playbook Origin Story
1. Objectives
1. Introduction
2. Organizing Tools & Events
3. Team-based Coaching
4. Onboarding Coaches
5. Partnering with Leaders
6. Resource: Dojo Team Board
7. Exercise: Planning & Sequencing First Plays

About this course

$3,000.00
54 lessons
3.5 hours of video content
6-months of access
80+ Page Coaching Playbook

BY THE NUMBERS

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Fortune 500 companies have fielded a dojo program	Of our students recommend this course to a colleague	Dojo coaches we've trained and mentored

“Working with Dave and his team and taking the 'Ready to Coach' program has been such a huge return on investment for our team at Kaiser Permanente! I would definitely encourage anyone interested in enrolling in this program to do so. You’ll really enjoy the curriculum, videos, written material, and expert coaching by Dave Laribee and team!”

Steven Archer — Coaching Leader, Kaiser Permanente

“The playbook is world-class. Not only is it full of plays we can use in the game of immersive learning, but it also exposes a structure that we can all reuse to refine our own plays, and plays with other ensembles of coaches and learners. People are looking for "new ways of working", but don't know how to get there. This course provides a new way of learning to get to those new ways of working.”

Michael R. Wolf — Agile Coach & ScrumMaster

“If I were a learner with the goal of becoming a Dojo Coach, this course is so incredibly valuable and absolutely critical. There are a ton of highly transferable coaching nuggets that can kickstart the dojo experience for a coach and the team.”

Rita Emmons — Managing Director, Cprime

A COMPLETE TOOLBOX

Beyond instructional videos and exercises, you'll get all the tools and access they need for success in the dojo.

Access to our online community of working dojo coaches and fellow students on Slack.
80+ Page "Dojo Coach’s Playbook" PDF - Containing dozens of plays, checklists, facilitation guides, resource bundles, etc.
Digital whiteboard examples for framing, dojo team organization, playbooks, and more.
Invitations to our monthly online AMA sessions with seasoned dojo coaches.
Ongoing access to course content for 6-months.
Blockchain-backed certification ready to share on LinkedIn.

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