Coaching for Transformation: Sustaining Change Microcredential Course with Certification

Build the skills to lead meaningful agile change that reshapes culture, structure, and outcomes.

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    Prerequisites

    Coaching for Transformation is a great course for anyone who wants to level up their impact. While some familiarity with agile principles is helpful, this course is ideal for a wide range of professionals, including agile coaches, scrum masters, product owners, project and product managers, and team leaders, who want to enhance their ability to support transformation.

    What You Will Learn

    • Ability to apply change management principles within agile transformation initiatives.
    • Skills to analyze organizations as complex, interconnected systems.
    • Techniques to assess and influence organizational culture effectively.
    • Strategies to redesign structures and policies that enable agility.
    • Practical approaches to shift leadership behaviors toward collaboration and autonomy.
    • Methods to foster innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
    • Tools to map current and future organizational states for transformation planning.
    • Coaching techniques that build internal capability and long-term sustainability.
    • Understanding of value-stream thinking and adaptive funding approaches.
    • Confidence to guide teams and leaders in sustaining agile practices beyond initial change efforts.

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    Go beyond just videos and learn hands-on with guided exercises, projects, assignments and more.

    World-Class Instructors

    Course instructors and designers from top businesses including Google, Amazon, Twitter and IBM.

    Real-World Learning

    Get an intimate, insider look at companies in the field through real-world case studies.

    Industry-Vetted Curriculum

    Curriculum primed for industry relevance and developed with guidance from industry advisory boards.

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    Curriculum

    In this module, you will explore the fundamentals of change management and its role in facilitating agile transformations.

    Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
    • Define basic concepts in change management and their application to agile transformations.
    • Identify common challenges associated with change management in agile settings.
    • Describe how transparency, inspection, and adaptation can support change.
    • Identify methods to map the current and future states of the organization.
    • Describe the importance of defining and measuring success in the context of agile transformation.

    In this module, you will examine the principles of holistic and systemic change, focusing on how agile principles can be applied to understand and transform interconnected systems.

    Upon completion of this module you will be able to:
    • Identify how a holistic agile approach supports the complexity and uncertainty of work.
    • Identify different stakeholder groups impacted by agile adoption and their potential concerns.
    • Describe how organizational change necessitates examining the structure, mindsets, practices, and culture of the organization.
    • Explain how practices and behaviors need to shift from predict and plan to inspect and adapt, from command and control to alignment and autonomy, and from imposing change to co-creating change.

    In this module, you will discover how organizational culture shapes and supports agile transformation.

    Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
    • Describe how culture is primarily a reflection of our mindsets, structure, practices, and historical events, and how these elements interact to shape the overall organizational environment.
    • Describe how agile principles change an organization’s approach to delivering value.
    • Identify ways to build an innovation culture that encourages diversity of people and opinions, debate over no debate, and the discomfort of trying something new.
    • Identify guidelines to map an organization's culture.

    In this module, you will explore how organizational structures and policies can be designed to support agile methodologies. 

    Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
    • Analyze the pros and cons of a matrix structure versus a product/service-based structure within an organization.
    • Outline the evolution of organizational structure from matrix and siloed departments to an end-to-end value stream delivery network.
    • Identify how finance needs to shift its funding approach from traditional cost accounting to throughput accounting and funding value streams.
    • Identify how HR needs to transition from rigid, company-biased policies to more flexible, employee-focused ones.
    • Recognize the impact of different team boundaries (structures, policies, metrics) on desired behaviors.

    In this module, you will learn how to apply agile practices to navigate and manage complex systems.

    Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
    • Identify how practices need to shift from predicting and planning to inspecting and adapting.
    • Identify ways to develop your own solutions by grasping the underlying principles instead of imitating others or their approaches without understanding.
    • Show how leadership behaviors need to shift from imposing decisions to co-creating solutions with their teams for greater engagement and collaboration.
    • Illustrate ways communities of practice anchor and grow the change.

    In this module, you will develop coaching strategies that empower teams and leaders to sustain agile practices.

    Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
    • Describe the importance of fostering competence in others and identify different methods to accomplish this.
    • Identify strategies to facilitate client ownership of their learning and development journey.
    • List guidelines to empower the client organization to build internal capacity to manage and sustain CoPs.

    In this module, you will analyze a comprehensive case study using principles from change management, agile methodologies, organizational culture, and systemic transformation, applying these insights to navigate and resolve complex challenges in real-world scenarios.

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    upGrad KnowledgeHut is a Scrum Alliance Licensed Training Partner (LTP), meaning every course is officially authorized, led by a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and meets rigorous global standards. You get hands-on workshops, real-world simulations, access to a thriving global agile community and a certificate recognized by employers worldwide.

    About Course

    A Microcredential course is a short, focused training program designed to help learners quickly gain specialized skills or knowledge in a specific subject area. These courses provide practical, industry-relevant learning that can be completed in a flexible and efficient format.

    Microcredentials are a valuable way to continuously build new skills without committing to long-term certification or degree programs. They allow individuals and teams to stay current with evolving industry trends and technologies.

    Microcredential courses focus on developing targeted expertise in specific areas, helping you build skills that can be applied immediately in your professional role.

    Learners can choose formats that fit their schedules, including live instructor-led sessions or on-demand learning options.

    Yes. Microcredential courses are typically more affordable than traditional certifications or degree programs, making them an accessible option for professional development.

    Most Microcredentials can be completed in just a few hours, allowing you to gain new competencies quickly rather than over weeks, months, or years.

    Yes. These credentials are validated by Scrum Alliance, a globally recognized credentialing body, providing credibility and professional recognition.

    Microcredential courses emphasize real-world application, enabling learners to immediately use new skills and knowledge in their work.

    Yes. Microcredentials are stackable, meaning you can combine multiple courses to create a broader, more comprehensive learning pathway.

    Yes, it does! In the unlikely event that you are not satisfied with the course, and you wish to withdraw within the first seven days, we’ll issue a 100% refund. Refer to our Online Self-Paced Courses Refund Policy for more details.

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    Yes, our online course is designed to give you flexibility to skill up as per your convenience. The course is delivered in a Self-Paced mode so that you can balance your work and learning as per your schedule.

    Yes! Upon passing this online course, you will receive a signed certificate of completion from KnowledgeHut. Thousands of KnowledgeHut alumni use their course certificate to demonstrate skills to employers and their networks.

    More than the certificate, however, you will get to showcase your newly acquired skills by working on real-world projects and adding these to your portfolio. KnowledgeHut’s online courses is well-regarded by industry experts, who contribute to our curriculum and use our tech programs to train their own teams.

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    ValidityLifetime validityTwo years (needs renewal)
    FocusHighly specific skill/topicFoundational expertise, comprehensive
    DurationUp to 8 hoursMulti-day intensive
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