Soft Skills for ScrumMasters Online Training

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UPDATED: September 24, 2017

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This project management training course prepares Scrum Masters to refine their Scrum skills as they learn to build effective teams. You’ll also develop essential soft skills and interpersonal techniques to foster a productive team environment, enhance collaboration, and keep projects on track.

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What you'll learn

Effective teams
Questioning and listening skills
Facilitating scrum events
Running great meetings
Preparing training sessions
Creating an environment for continual improvement
Disrupting, influencing, and motivating

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What will you learn in this soft skills training for ScrumMasters?

You'll learn the intangible, hard-to-define parts of a ScrumMaster's job that elevate an okay manager to a truly terrific ScrumMaster. Inside this soft skills course you'll find tips and guidance in asking insightful questions, performing active listening, running great meetings, and how to empower teams to solve their own problems.

Who should take this soft skills for ScrumMasters course?

Although this soft skills course is intended for ScrumMasters, anyone who shepherds teams through projects could benefit. The soft skills that ScrumMasters should cultivate – like active listening, provoking questioning, and effective team building – are skills that anyone who has to manage the output of groups of people can benefit from.

Is this training in soft skills for ScrumMasters associated with any certifications?

Not directly, no, this course doesn't align directly with a certification or exam's objectives. Certification exams struggle to test whether or not a person actually has soft skills like creative problem solving or the ability to influence and motivate team members. This course delivers important skills that defy examinations.

What certification should you consider after taking this course in soft skills for ScrumMasters?

If you need a Scrum or Agile-related certification after you take this course, you have a lot of competing options. Scrum Alliance offers certifications for ScrumMasters, product owners and developers, and Scrum.org offers the famous Professional Scrum Master cert in three tiers: PSM I, PSM II and PSM III.

Why should you take this soft skills training for ScrumMasters?

This course in all the soft skills that a ScrumMaster should have reveals that the tenets of Agile meetings are easy to understand and difficult to implement. Learning these soft skills will help you think like a ScrumMaster and form teams that support themselves and succeed on their own initiative.

Who is this for?

This soft skills training is considered foundational Scrum training, which means it was designed for new and experienced ScrumMasters.

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Study plan

Download the free Soft Skills for ScrumMasters Online Training study plan to complete this course in about 2 hours.

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