This document discusses using agile thinking and principles in life coaching. It provides quotes and images related to concepts like goals, beliefs, attitudes, empowering vs limiting language, and powerful questions. Life coaching using agile techniques focuses on taking challenges in small chunks, questioning assumptions, and continually learning and improving through experiments and iterations. The overall message is that agile principles can be applied beyond software development to help people achieve goals and get better at life.

1. Agile Coaching? Sure thing!
What about Life Coaching
in Agile Thinking?
REA Group
02/08/2013 | LAST Melbourne
@realestate_au
Victoria Schiffer @Erdbeervogel

2. “You don’t have to be
sick to become better!”
(Michael Josephson)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/ (Tambako the Jaguar)

3. “The devil you
know is better
than the devil you
don't know!”
“But is there a
devil at all on the
new road?”
Joseph O’Connor
& Andrea Lages

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/9352616577 (Tambako the Jaguar)
Support

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnuckx/8076464389 (Gnuckx)
forward
move

6. goals
“Setting a negative goal is like
going shopping with a list of things
that you do not want to buy.” Joseph O’Connor
& Andrea Lages
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smitty/199457812 (smitty42)

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/8456219474 (CarbonNYC)
The only person you should try to be better
than, is the person you were yesterday. (Unknown)
You!

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmab2003/4277896845/ (TMAB2003)
It’s
You!
about

9. Filter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinpoh/4545094285 (kevinpoh)

10. Beliefs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baileysjunk/3631094798 (BaileyRaeWeaver)
“What the thinker thinks,
the prover proves!”(Robert Anton Wilson)

11. “Life is
10% How
You Make
It and
90% How
you Take
It“
(Irving Berlin)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mabahamo/4751785617
(Manuel Bahamondez H)
Choice
Attitude

12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/peter-trimming/6611749509 (Peter G Trimming)
Pull,
not push

13. ‘But’ is the
great eraser.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snakebiteheart-/6847637842 (SnakeBite Heart)

14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluehillranch/6420193921 (305 Seahill)
Empowering
Limiting

15. Pressure Words
Abstract Words
shouldmust have to
need to
ought to
failure
relationship
stress
want to
don’t want to
Choice
frustration
success
Unconsidered
Opinions
better
obviously
clearly
worse
Overgeneralizations
never
nobody always
can’t
can
everybody
Beliefs

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/criminalintent/5229017560 (Lars Plougmann)
“Life begins at the end of
your comfort zone.”
(Neale Donald Walsch, Autor)

17. There is a solution to every problem.
(NLP Presupposition)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eriwst/2421129047 (eriwst)

18. Anything can be
accomplished
when the task is
taken in small
enough chunks.
(NLP Presupposition)

19. You cannot not
communicate
(NLP Presupposition)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcel030nl/2556824810 (Marcel030NL)

20. The Meaning of Your Communication
is the response you get
(NLP Presupposition)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markusthorsen/3091394736 (markusthorsen)

21. “I didn't fail the test, I
just found 100 ways to
do it wrong.“
(Benjamin Franklin)
Failure
Feedback
is only
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeparker/1393311040 (Michael H Parker)

22. http://www.flickr.com/photos/56380734@N05/5914710795 (Comrade Foot Jens Rost)
Every behaviour has a positive
intention.
(NLP Presupposition)

23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/laserstars/908946494 (jpctalbot)
“You have
not yet
reached
the limit of
what you
are capable
of.”
Ability
Joseph O’Connor
& Andrea Lages

24. Get your
out of the way!http://www.flickr.com/photos/angeldye/7967897282 (angeldye)

25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparetomato/2641110677 (sparetomato)
“Most people do not listen with the intent
to understand; they listen with the
intent to reply.” (Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

26. silence!
courage for
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulholloway/2104762221 (Paul Holloway)

27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcleod/7004084690 (Scott McLeod)
“Question everything.
Learn something.
Answer nothing.” (Euripides)

28. Powerful
Questions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hygienematters/5452837491 (SCA Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget)
What...? How...? When...?
Why...?

29. Fresh
Perspective
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathias-erhart/280056079 (mathias-erhart)
What If...?

30. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakecaptive/3205277810(@boetter)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/-followthemusic-/7185470025(LaurenFinkelPhotography)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/popculturegeek/4878889504 (Pop Culture Geek)
challenge free
take
Joseph O’Connor, & Andrea Lages

31. http://www.flickr.com/photos/visualpunch/8745184787 (visualpun.ch)

32. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/6861256042 (kevin dooley)
Meetings

33. Decision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inafrenzy/5787848646 (InaFrenzy)
making

34. Performance
Reviews
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeontheedge/6871511101 (Marshall Astor - Food Fetishist)

35. Conversationhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gibbons/1400055656 (Esther Gibbons)

36. Difficult Situationshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/31762350@N03/4090808706 (al_bee)

37. Different people, great variety
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nagarjun/6387774307 (Nagarjun)

38. Learninghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/telachhe/3342173731 (Tela Chhe)

39. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jayneandd/4451411132 (jayneandd)
Success

40. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kheelcenter/5279692906/ von Kheel Center, Cornell University
Happy Team

41. http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchy/30217136/ (Francois Schnell)
What are you
going to do as
a first step?

42. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lennox_mcdough/4057851723(lennox_mcdough)
Experiments

43. “Triumph is just a little
umph added to try.” (Tim Owens)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stannate/3912535987 (stannate)

44. disclosed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjfnjy/5249145754 (Ken and Nyetta)
“Coaching with NLP: How to be a Master Coach” by Joseph O’Connor, & Andrea Lages
www.goodreads.com/book/show/258916.Coaching_with_NLP
TED Talk: “Your body language shapes who you are” by Amy Cuddy
www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
www.agilemanifesto.org
What The Thinker Thinks, The Prover Proves - 140 sec session, Stoos Connect NL 2013
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4GLy_zJjcI
“Your Attitude Determines Whether Or Not You’ll Succeed”
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/attitude-determines-success-2013-1
“Strengthsfinder 2.0” by Tom Rath
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56454.StrengthsFinder_2_0
Secrets

45. Thank you :)
Iteration Manager
& Life Coaching
Student
02/08/2013 | LAST Melbourne
@Erdbeervogel
linkedin.com/in/victoriaschiffer
German for “Strawberry-Bird”, hence the avatar
Victoria Schiffer