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Agile Coaching as a Path toward a Deeper Meaning of Work and Life
In this article, we take a deeper look at the practice and purpose of agile coaching. We find out why interactions are the most essential focus in agile coaching - and also the basis of learning and professional development for the agile coaches themselves. We also learn how focusing on our existing strengths and situations can help us discover our authentic purpose in work and life.
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How Emotional Connections Can Drive Change: Applying Fearless Change Patterns
When trying to bring innovation into an organization, communication is important. It is vital to share information in a clear and logical way, but it is just as important to understand and accept how people are feeling about the innovation. To do this, leaders can make use of strategies that help them create an emotional connection.
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Autism at the Workplace: Autism Coaching as a Methodology
As a person with autism or other neurodiversity, it’s important to get to know yourself really well. It’s even better if another person can get to know you from the inside-out. Dennie Declercq and his mom Ivette Marchand found a way to allow for open and vulnerable communication between them. They made Declercq’s life-manual, which enables him to be happy and productive as a software developer.
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Using Trauma-Informed Approaches in Agile Environments
Scientific and clinical understanding of how the human nervous system develops and works has increased tremendously. Its implications are so profound they radiate far beyond the field of psychology. Topics such as trauma-informed law, volleyball coaching, legal counseling, education, and social activism have arisen. It is time to consider how it affects working in an agile tech environment.
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Increasing Team and Individual Motivation with the Motivational Diagnostic
Being motivated can make a positive difference to both our engagement and our success in the workplace. The same is true of teams - a motivated team is much more likely to be engaged at work and achieve results. The motivation diagnostic tool helps people understand more about how motivated they feel, and the factors that are contributing towards that motivation or demotivation.
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Group Coaching - Extending Growth Opportunity beyond Individual Coaching
This article provides an introduction to group coaching and explains how it is different from individual coaching. It sheds light on the benefits of using group coaching, skills that coaches would need and the challenges they would face, with an example scenario using one of the group coaching techniques, and describes the context in which such a technique can be used.
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Going from Architect to Architecting: the Evolution of a Key Role
This article explores the cultural change of moving towards shared architecture, and the role that the architect has evolved into; from one with an air of authority and singular vision, to one in which system design issues are surfaced, which require team-wide input to resolve. Teams being coached and guided towards shared ownership might be struggling with the paradigm shift of ownership.
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Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization
Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently. This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization.
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Transitioning into the Staff+ Engineer Role - from Player to Coach
This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits organisations get by having leadership roles that are focused on technical enablement and support.
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What Kind of Coach Does Your Team Need?
Coaching is primarily client-driven; the client chooses the right coach for a particular need at a particular time. However, the team may first need to understand what coaching is before deciding what kind of coach they need, and why they need it. This article examines the role that a coach can play in establishing, maintaining and nurturing a safe space for teams to grow and achieve their goals.
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How to Run Your Product Department Like a Coach
Having found what I thought was my calling as an agile coach, I took the tough decision to move sideways into Product Management in the hopes of using what I’d learned to one day run my own department. I believed that coming from coaching would allow me to see things others could not and create something special. Time will tell if I have succeeded. This is the story of where I am so far.
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Agile Coaches, Agile Guides and Other Family Members
Companies look at agile coaches as agile experts to guide teams through agile working. But that is at odds with the deeper philosophy of true coaching. Perhaps they should be engaging agile guides instead. Calling out Agile Guide as a distinct role when moving into uncharted territory can be especially effective and allows true coaches to maximise their effectiveness too.