Amplio Leader Development Program

The Amplio System

The Amplio system is a combination of a well-defined success strategy, a decision-guiding platform, and utilizes a modern training approach.

Amplio Success Strategy. Identify what success means to your stakeholders and create the value to achieve it.

1. Amplio GPS guides consultants to identify the challenges an organization is having and create an improvement backlog to eliminate them.
2. Collaboration boards that facilitate teamwork, decision-making, and education.
3. The Amplio Pattern Language provides roles, events, artifacts, and rules so people do not need to reinvent the wheel.

Decision guiding and learning platform. Learn patterns of cause-and-effect to accelerate value creation for stakeholders.

4. Accelerator patterns are approaches for thinking slow and then taking fast actions. They improve the velocity of making good decisions by looking at past solutions and using known principles and practices.
5. A platform built for extension so that you can fill in any special needs.

Modern Learning Methods raise the effectiveness of content delivery and implementation.

6. In the workplace learning with Learning Journeys
7. Thinking strategies are mini lessons to teach how to accomplish a required goal. While they are about educating concepts, they are organized around what needs to be accomplished.
8. Knowledge checklists which act as learning paths.

Redefining what a. coach is.

Many Agile coaches today have devolved to be mere facilitators of a guide ensuring certain activities take place. But we need coaches who can see a better way to do work and who can guide their teams forward. All Amplio learning journeys come from instilling a powerful attitude in the coaches being trained as well as what’s needed to accomplish this.

In a nutshell, coaches should:

1. be a visionary
2. take responsibility
3. have rational optimism
4. have humility
5. have empath and compassion
6. act congruently, with integrity and authenticity
7. take a systems-thinking attitude.

They also need to have the following capabilities:

1. Know how to get clarity on what success means
2. Have a deep understanding of what makes workflows effective
3. Have an understanding of how people learn
4. Be able to convey concepts to different roles
5. Effectively interact with learners to enhance their personal effectiveness
6. Have appropriate tools and methods to help people work together effectively

You can read more about both the attitudes and capabilities of coaches here.

Program Details

The minimum starting program is described here. Additional people can be added to it based on a per-person basis.

Three experienced consultants participate in the Amplio Consultant Educators learning journey and the Amplio Value Coach learning journey. These create the core of the center of excellence. They will provide guidance to the rest of the participants as well as consultants and coaches not in the program.

Three solid team leads / Scrum Masters participate in the Amplio Value coach learning journey. This provides them with expertise in proactive coaching.

Widespread use of collaboration boards

This coaching will be about setting up and improving the center of excellence.  In addition, several collaboration boards normally reserved for ACEs can be used by any participant in the program. This enables a consistent offering across the organization.

Kickoff consulting included.

As part of the program, Al Shalloway will work with the company to help set up the Center of Excellence. Approximate 3-4 hours.

For every three ACEs in the program, the participating organization gets one free hour of consulting hour by Al Shalloway a month.

Growing your own competency

Part of the program is growing management and coaches. The ADLP creates a center for excellence and can be tailored to your needs.

The one hour a month should be about the COE since the Dr Is In will handle any questions.

Pricing

Benefits of the program

Near term benefits

• Six or more of your people get cutting-edge training as well as the benefits of using several collaboration boards with their teams.
• Creation of a center of excellence for your organization.
• Creation of a fit-for-purpose approach instead of out-of-the-box frameworks that don’t fully apply to your organization.

Intermediate benefits

• Year-long support by a thought leader in most every category of Agile methods.
• Use the COE to provide coaching to other coaches not in the program.

Long term benefits

• Create your own internal training program both for your staff and to provide to clients.
• Integrate thinking strategies into your consulting work.
• Work with Success Engineering to create internal training programs for your clients.

Benefit of the Benefits

• Increase the morale of your teams by not forcing them to follow frameworks that don’t quite fit.
• Retain your best people by providing them growth opportunities
• Accelerate the delivery of the right value to your clients.
• Lower the high-cost of training.
• Enable your team coaches to help 2-3 teams instead of the typical level of one.

Amplio virtual collaboration boards

Virtual collaboration boards on Miro are more important than ever. While most people use them as virtual whiteboards, their potential impact is great. One or more boards are used each session. Each board is oriented toward identifying challenges and showing how to solve challenges. Here are 4 virtual collaboration board examples: