AGILE PEOPLE TRAINER (APT) 

As an Agile People Trainer, you are running your training sessions, public or in-house, always as an individual, from your own independent company, consulting firm, or employee of a company offering the courses.

• Please note that both we (Agile People) and our certification partner ICAgile only enter into an agreement individually with the authorized trainer, not with any organizational entity.
• The license to use the Content, therefore, follows the authorized trainer, not f.ex. the company backing them

As an Agile People Trainer, you are knowledgeable about adult learning methods, a skilled trainer and facilitator, and have background and experience in Agile and/or HR and Leadership roles. In addition, you have skills in coaching, facilitation, mentoring, and teaching.

You also wish to continually develop yourself, learn more about yourself and other people and deepen your skills in the organizational area. Therefore, you are always looking for ways to understand and improve, particularly your sharing your experience and competence.

To become an Agile People Trainer

Step 1: Attend the course(s) you wish to teach as a participant yourself.

• This is a non-negotiable criterion to be eligible for becoming an Agile People Trainer
• View the course options via our “Become a Coach | Trainer” page on our website

Step 2: Authorizing and Subscribing to your course(s) as an Agile People Trainer.

You will go through our onboarding and authorization process, which includes attending a virtual session (or equivalent) led by a member of the Agile People Core team.  In this session, you will showcase your skills in training and facilitation, as well as your understanding of the course content, structure and flow from a trainer perspective.

Upon completing this authorization, and pending you’re signing the license agreement and subscribing to your first course, you will be approved as an Agile People Trainer

A further option is to become an ICAgile Authorized Instructor.

The Agile People Authorized ICAgile Instructor is an add-on to being an Agile People Trainer.  In addition to being an APT, you will have completed a further authorization process hosted by ICAgile.

Upon approval, you have met ICAgiles requirements for being able to run your courses as ICAgile certification course, and providing your participants with ICAgiles certifications.

Please note that issuing certificates to your participants is dependent on the participant completing a certification assignment, and is optional for each participant.

The ICAgile Option itself is optional for you as a trainer and requires an additional one-time investment plus participation in their authorization process.

Step 3: Scheduling and Delivery of your Courses.

Upon activation as Agile People Trainer,  Agile People will provide you with access to training content and exercises, tools for scheduling courses, delivering courses in an online format, handling participants and events, and marketing support.

• Online Delivery is contingent on being authorized for online delivery and paying for our Online Delivery Subscription

Terms and conditions for operating as an Agile People Trainer

The approach and method to prepare and develop yourself as APT are for you to choose. As a basis, you are strongly advised to co-train with an experienced APT at least once to gain experience.

We expect you to read suggested literature, attend multiple events or sessions by different APTs, and attend online events organized by Agile People.

As an APT you have the right to participate in events or sessions by any other APT for free (for mutual learning and improvement). Still, the other APTs can set a limit to the number of available seats, and probably require some compensation to cover the costs of catering and Content.

USAGE OF CONTENT BY APT

Agile People will provide you with Content for all public courses using the brand name Agile People.

• This Content is exclusively collected and developed by Agile People and supplied and maintained by our content creators and translators. The Content provided by Agile People, including any copyrights and trademarks, is the property of Agile People
• Agile People guarantees that we hold the exclusive rights to provide you with a license to use the brand contents. We strive to continuously improve the courses and related Content for the entire community and therefore, we highly appreciate your ongoing active feedback and examples of improvements and collaboration, and reflections on versions with which you experiment.
• The use of the Content is valid as long as the date of the event you schedule is in a period that you, as an APT, have an active subscription

APT has no right to use/transfer any Content into a new “form/brand” without written consent. Any attempt in this direction might be a breach of this agreement and the copyright of the Content, and Agile People might file for violation of this agreement in a court of law.

See also Termination of agreement.

DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT

The Content is made available in PowerPoint original versions for delivery in person. There is also an option to deliver the Content via Online delivery *

• See more under Online Delivery

The book “Agile People – a Radical Approach to HR and Managers (That Leads to Motivated Employees)” is a part of the course and needs to be distributed to the course participants in a book or digital version.

Original (editable) brand materials are only available for APTs and are not allowed to be made available to others. Agile People grants APTs permission to distribute read-only (PDF) versions of the Content to participants.

• If APTs distribute digital versions to participants, APT should always create a PDF handout with two or more slides per page. This is to minimize the risk for unauthorized usage of the Content. If this procedure is unclear, inquire from the Agile People team how to create this.

CERTIFICATION OF ATTENDEES

In return for each evaluation form in our Tools, the participants of an event will receive a Certificate of Participation. In addition, you are expected to confirm that the participant has fulfilled the training via our Tools.

If you, as an APT, have become an authorized instructor by ICAgile, then your attendees can receive a certificate from ICAgile. You are responsible for ensuring that the attendee has demonstrated enough knowledge to pass the certification.

This demonstration of learning is done by completing a Certification Assignment, as approved by the trainer for the course.

• The certification assignment can be started during the training and completed after the training is finalized. The assignment can be performed individually or in a team of attendees who have attended the same training event.
• In addition to payment for the certificates in the Agile People webshop, you are required to send a list of the attendees that should receive a certificate to [email protected]).

• As an APT, you can personalize and customize the Content you use with your examples and knowledge to a certain extent. You are only authorized to change the version that you have a subscription on. You are not allowed to transfer the Content to another media or distribution type. (f.ex. your own private LMS)

  We have two categories of events, a) branded events (meetups, shorter seminars, webinars, etc.) and b) training events and workshops. For the participants to be certified, then min. 80% of that training needs to use the accredited Content from Agile People and ICAgile.

  • ICAgile Certification Courses: If the training you provide is labelled as certification training from ICAgile, they need to meet the Learning Outcomes provided by ICAgile. Our standard Content for the ICAgile accredited courses satisfies these learning outcomes.

  If you change the Content to more than “80%”, you need to send in your new version to [email protected] to provide us with the opportunity to review and comment on whether or not the Content still complies with the learning outcomes. Again, this needs to happen before the course start.

  Agile People also has an opportunity to get new good ideas, and we will ask for permission to use the provided Content in future versions.

  When you add Content, you are responsible for guaranteeing that your customizations do not infringe upon the rights of third parties.

TRANSLATIONS

• Agile People, together with APTs and skilled translators, do new versions in local languages. All of these translations are more or less a translated version of the Agile People Original English version.

  The translated original versions are intended to provide participants from different countries with a similar course experience. This is of particular interest when working with organizations that have employees in other countries. For this reason, we urge you to customize the Content to an absolute minimum

ICAGILE

• Agile People is a member organization of ICAgile, and we are regularly contributing to ICAgile tracks and helping out in the development of the learning outcomes.

  ICAgile charges Agile People for accrediting courses, for authorizing trainers to become ICAgile Instructors, and for issuing each ICAgile certificate to participants, as well as a yearly fee for membership and support.

  Agile People handles the administration of each of these steps and pays and collects the fees for services that fall on the ICAgile Instructor. Authorizations and certification fees are charged via Agile People, and we, in turn, pay these fees to ICAgile on behalf of the ICAgile Instructor.

  For providing this service, AP charges a small administrative fee. For category three countries, we do not add any extra administrative costs for participant fees. Therefore, a change in price (up or down) from ICAgile will directly impact the cost to our trainers.

MANAGING OF TRAINING EVENTS

• As an APT, you are responsible for scheduling events or sessions, their quality, the selection of business partners for logistics, locations, etc.

  You are required to use our Tool(s) for setting up and presenting your events. You are also free to promote your events via other platforms, however, to ensure that your events are visible via our website, you are always required to set up the event using the tools provided by Agile People.

  This is a better solution for the end customer as all training are gathered in one place, and customers get a better overview and can buy the best possible option for them. If a customer finds better-suited training (time-wise, language etc), all of us gain from this.

  Should you wish to co-train with another person, the other person also needs to have signed, separately, the same version of the agreement with Agile People AB. You will act as the primary contact for all your scheduled events and sessions. To keep all marketing channels up to date for potential customers, you need to inform Agile People (agilepeople.com) of new events or courses, changes, or cancellations.

  PRICING OF EVENTS BY TRAINERS

  You or your organizing business partners will determine the pricing of events and sessions organized under the brand name Agile People. Agile People provides APTs with a list of recommended prices in three country categories.

  We request that you please align with the others operating in the same market (country) or similar. The alignment of prices will make sure that the whole Agile People Community experiences good business. As a standard, you can always check prices on agilepeople.com. For pricing on Online Public training, see under Online Training above.

  IN-COMPANY (Private) EVENTS

  You can use the Content in the private event(s) or session(s), and this usage is included in the running fee structure. However, if the sessions you provide are labelled as certification sessions from ICAgile, you need to register them in our Tools as private events, including participants.

  PROMOTION OF CONTENT AND EVENTS

  The monthly (yearly) fee covers the listings of all your events and sessions on agilepeople.com, including their dates and locations. The fee also includes the worldwide marketing of the brand.

  All public training, workshops, public events, and sessions offered under the brand name “Agile People” need to be listed on the Agile People website and marketed via channels available to Agile People.

  Direct sales and marketing for your training, workshops, events, or sessions are the primary responsibility of you and your organizing business partners. However, as we stated initially, Agile People will help market any event through different channels. The idea is that a strong brand in Agile People will make every APT successful.

  PARTICIPANTS OF EVENTS

  You agree to provide Agile People with the email addresses of participants of public events. Agile People reserve the right to use such email addresses to conduct evaluations of events and sessions. In addition, agile People can approach these attendees to welcome them into the AP community and for overall messages regarding new interesting information that concern training and development.

  AP will act in accordance with GDPR laws in requiring consent from signed-in visitors to our website and systems – as the APT you may need to notify your attendees that this consent is required.

  In the case of private events and meetings, supplying attendees’ email addresses is optional, except when they need to be certified by ICAgile or Agile People or gain access to the Agile People Campus LMS system.

  EVALUATION BY PARTICIPANTS

  Agile People reserves the right to calculate average evaluation scores of events and sessions. You agree to the publication of these ratings, where this is deemed necessary or beneficial.

  Agile People will make sure that all evaluations and ratings are shared with you. If the evaluation forms indicate that the quality of an event or session offered by you was insufficient, you will be asked and supported to improve the quality of your training.

  Agile People reserves the right to terminate this agreement when quality remains poor over three out of five consecutive training events. No refund of any fees will apply in this case.

COLLABORATION BETWEEN TRAINERS

• We highly value active participation in our network. If you do training sessions, we strongly recommend that you co-train at least two classes/year of any of the main Products.

  You will have access to a platform for communication amongst trainers about the brand content, events, and sessions, where products and experiences can be discussed, and personal contributions can be shared.

LIMITATION OF THIS AGREEMENT

Only individuals can become an APT. Therefore, an APT license can not be awarded to business entities such as publishers, training companies, or event organizers.