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Lead and Influence Organizational Maturity: Take the Kanban Coaching Course

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Learn How to Coach for Organizational Change Using the Kanban Method’s Evolutionary Change Approach

You learned what the Kanban Maturity Model is and how to build an Evolutionary Change Canvas. Your next step to becoming a coach is to learn how to utilize advanced concepts of change management and sociological concepts to address the underlying resistance common in many organizational cultures.

Get your copy of our new Kanban Coaching course flyer and find out if this is the right course for you and what you will leave with. 

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In our Kanban Coaching course you will learn how to:

  • Refine and iterate your Evolutionary Change Canvas to include aspects of your organizational culture including resistance by individuals and groups.
  • Understand and practice how to overcome change plateaus while avoiding the all-too-common aspects of overreaching when considering organizational change.
  • Practice the six escalating steps to increase the motivation for change.

Kanban Coaching Classes are starting in August! Find one near you or online.

FIND A KC CLASS

Students completing the coursework requirement of the Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP) credential (KSD, KSI, KMM, and KC courses) are eligible to take the KCP Exam to attain their KCP Credential. 

The KCP is an internationally recognized, advanced-level credential. Kanban Coaching Professionals are proven to hold a specific set of effective coaching tools to lead and evolve organizations to higher levels of maturity.

Kanban Coaching Professional Credential Updates

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Introducing the Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP) Credential Exam

Kanban University, in its constant pursuit of excellence for our students, is pleased to announce NEW advanced testing requirements for the Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP) Credential.

As we experience growth in the Kanban community, we are working to ensure that the quality and professionalism of the KCP Credential remains exemplary and consistent. For that reason, we are introducing a KCP exam to attain the Kanban Coaching Professional Credential (a one-time credential activation fee applies).

The KCP is an advanced-level credential. Successfully passing the KCP exam demonstrates not only full and comprehensive mastery of the Kanban Maturity Model and Kanban Coaching curriculum, but also the skill to lead and evolve an organization to higher levels of maturity. The public will be able to clearly recognize a KCP as an expert in their field and trust that they hold a specific set of effective coaching tools that lead to better business outcomes.

Taking the KCP exam is optional and not a mandatory part of class registration. Every student to complete the (newly renamed) Kanban Coaching course will still receive a certificate of completion from Kanban University.

KCPs certified before May 31, 2023 will NOT have to complete the exam to receive their credential.

New Kanban Coaching Professional Credential Requirements

  • Effective June 1, 2023.
  • Participants must complete the course requirements to become a Kanban Coaching Professional, including earning the KMP credential and attending both the Kanban Maturity Model course and the Kanban Coaching course (previously Kanban Coaching Practices).
  • Participants must successfully pass the Kanban Coaching Professional exam with a 75% passing score.
  • No fee is required for taking the exam. Each participant will be granted unlimited tries to pass the exam. If the participant does not achieve a passing score, there will be a 10-day waiting period between each attempt.
  • After receiving a passing score, participants who choose to activate their Kanban Coaching Professional Credential will be charged a one-time KCP credential Activation Fee of $250 USD (PPP adjustments may apply). This is an introductory rate effective through December 31, 2023. The credential fee will increase to the regular price of $500 on January 1, 2024 (price increase is subject to change).

Find upcoming Kanban Maturity Model and Kanban Coaching classes to start your path toward the KCP Credential.

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More Trainers and Languages Available for KCP Credential Classes

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More Trainers and Languages Available for Kanban Coaching Professional Credential Classes

When you achieve the Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP) credential, it demonstrates that you understand the Kanban Maturity Model playbook and can help evolve organizations to higher levels of maturity.

Now you have even more opportunities to continue your path in Kanban coaching proficiency. We are proud to introduce more approved trainers who teach the two classes required for the KCP – Kanban Maturity Model and Kanban Coaching Practices – and in more languages!

Check out the upcoming classes to find a trainer near you and to learn more about KMM and KCP.

Kanban Maturity Model

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Kanban Coaching Practices

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The Meaning of Kanban From the Inside

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Kanban from the inside! What does that mean?

Perhaps it’s about practicing Kanban and it is written by a practitioner? And that would be true!

Perhaps it’s about understanding Kanban and its community of followers from a community insider? And that would be true too!

Or perhaps it is about something deeper, something truly “from the inside”, from inside the author? Kanban from the heart? Kanban from the soul? Kanban expressed by a deeply spiritual person with a strong sense of self and a deeply held set of values?

Mike Burrows was an early adopter of Kanban and an early member of our online community. It helped him do his job. It helped his organization get work done, manage risk better and improve their performance. It was a solid and effective management technique. It was a useful professional tool for a middle manager with operational responsibilities.

In 2010, Mike Burrows attended the Kanban coaching masterclass and like others before him and who’ve come since he described it as “life changing.” He left with the ephinany that the Kanban guidance he’d been following was rooted in a set of values – values that I wasn’t communicating explicitly. They were values that resonated with someone who quietly follows his religious beliefs. In many ways a private person, Kanban had touched him in a way he didn’t expect.

Since then Mike has dedicated his professional career to the development of Kanban and significantly to makinge its underlying values explicit. Mike has helped to expand the “Why” of Kanban. He’s helped to humanize it and to explain how it represents “change that is humane.” He’s become a highly respected leader in our community. I’m proud to know him and proud to call him a colleague. It gives me great pleasure that we could publish his book, Kanban from the Inside. I know how much it all means to him.

Kanban from the Inside will help you understand why you should care about Kanban and how Kanban and its community care about you. It is also packed with much of the latest guidance, teaching tools, explanations and experience that otherwise you can only access through training classes.

Yes, Kanban is a useful management method for delivering creative and knowledge work services. Yes, Kanban is an effective way to drive improvement in an evolutionary way. Yes, the techniques in this book will help improve the operational performance of your business. Kanban is all of those things and Mike shows you how to make it happen. But let Mike take you further. Discover the soul of Kanban. Discover what is inside! Get Kanban from the Inside! It’s a great read and well worth your investment. Discover a new deeper way to connect with the concepts in the Kanban Method.

LeanKanban Training Roadmap 2015 Edition

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We’ve updated the LeanKanban Training Roadmap for 2015 following the introduction of the modular 5-day Enterprise Services Planning class.

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2015 Edition LeanKanban Training Roadmap

The new training roadmap includes the new Enterprise Services Planning classes but also introduces a new intermediate training class called “The Kanban Method.” People completing the Foundation Level “Getting Started with Kanban – Improving your Service Delivery” class together with the Advanced Practitioner Level “The Kanban Method – Success Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business” will receive the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential.

As has been the case for the past 3 years, Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) are free to offer a 1-day informational class tailored to specific audiences. These introductory classes are designed to deliver Kanban awareness. There is no set curriculum for these classes. AKTs are free to construct a curriculum that in their opinion is best tailored to their audience and delivers the right level of Kanban awareness based on the job function of the attendees. Certificates of attendance are issued.

The “Getting Started with Kanban” Foundation Level class is now standardized for all new AKTs. The curriculum is defined and trainers use the standard training materials issued from LeanKanban University. Trainers are permitted to customize the training by localizing it into their own language and by adding their own case study. This 2-day class is designed to teach the basic mechanics of Kanban and let participants experience Kanban in action through the getKanban game simulation and the STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach to Implementing Kanban) Method exercises for analysis, design and implementation of a kanban system and visual boards. Certificates of attendance are issued to all attendees who complete this 2-day class.

The new “The Kanban Method – Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business” class at the Advanced Practitioner Level is designed for people with basic knowledge and experience using Kanban. This class focuses on the 7 Kanban Cadences: Replenishment; Delivery Planning; Standup; Service Delivery Review; Operations Review; Risk Review; and Strategy Review. The objective of this class is to teach the full method and encourage deeper implementations. Candidates will learn how the Kanban Method provides an anti-fragile solution through its feedback mechanisms that are designed to respond to stressors by catalyzing improvements.

“The Kanban Method” class has a standardized curriculum and standard training materials. Trainers are permitted to localize the training materials into their local language. All AKTs can offer this advanced practitioner class.

Certificates of attendance are issued for each candidate completing the 2-day “The Kanban Method” class.

For those who complete both 2-day classes, “Getting Started with Kanban” and “The Kanban Method” they will be awarded the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential.

Three parallel tracks are then offered: Enterprise Services Planning; Kanban Coaching Masterclass; Kanban Train-the-trainer.

Enterprise Services Planning is designed for managers from line level to senior decision makers who must worry about enterprise scale concerns, customer satisfaction and fitness for purpose. Enterprise Services Planning is designed to delivery practical solutions for pragmatic practitioners.

The Kanban Coaching Masterclass is a step towards receiving the Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP) credential. KCPs must complete the masterclass, demonstrate at least 6 months Kanban coaching experience through a case study essay and a panel interview. The KCP track is designed for people who wish to lead or coach Kanban and Enterprise Services Planning initiatives with their employer or clients.

The Kanban Train-the-trainer is a class that teaches trainers how to deliver the Kanban training classes, “Getting Started with Kanban” and “The Kanban Method”. Attendees completing the train-the-trainer are awarded the Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) credential. Only AKTs are licensed to deliver official LeanKanban training.