This is the slide deck that was used to present at the Agile Bristol and Bath meetup group, the Cheltenham Geek Nights meetup group and the Bristol and Bath Coaching Group.

1. Hiya!
Mike Roberts

2. A little Contracting
• There will be moments that I ask you to work together
• The more you put in the more you get out.
• It is up to you how much you share or don’t share.

3. First a bit about me:
Been working in IT for 20 years.
I have a technical background
Certified agile scrum master and product owner
I have implemented agile scrum into large organisations
I have managed large teams
I have managed small teams.
Been a scrum master.
Implemented DevOps
I am currently a EMEA program manager.
Leadership coaching
Career coaching
Team coaching
I am also a certified business and personal coach.
Which is actually what brings me here today…..

4. Today I want to :
- Ask are all coaches the same?
- Highlight transferable coaching skills
- Leave you with some tools to play with
So today I invite you to ….

5. Be more coach…
Mike Roberts

6. There appears to be some confusion between what is a professional
coach and what is a domain specific coach. Or sometimes people
haven’t even thought that there is a difference.

7. Agree on
your
definition
of a coach.

8. Domain specific
(Agile coach)
Professional
Coach
The traits / Behaviour of a coach?

9. Domain specific
(Agile coach)
Professional Coach
(Life Coach)
• Works with a development team
• Part of an organisation
• Listens
• Mentors
• Instructs
• Empowers others
• Specialist
• Action orientated
• Technical background
• Reflective
• Implements change
• Business focus
• Asks questions
• Listens
• Works mainly 1-2-1
• Asks questions
• Stays in the not knowing
• Empowers others
• Action orientated
• Behavioural psychology
• Strong emotional intelligence
• Counselling
• Avoids instruction
• Unconditional Positive Regard
• Reflective
• Beliefs
• Focus on the individual
• Client led sessions

10. Domain specific
(Agile coach)
Professional Coach
• Works with a development team
• Part of an organisation
• Listens
• Mentors
• Instructs
• Empowers others
• Specialist
• Action orientated
• Technical background
• Reflective
• Implements change
• Business focus
• Asks questions
• Listens
• Works mainly 1-2-1
• Asks questions
• Stays in the not knowing
• Empowers others
• Action orientated
• Behavioural psychology
• Strong emotional intelligence
• Counselling
• Avoids instruction
• Unconditional Positive Regard
• Reflective
• Beliefs
• Focus on the individual
• Client led sessions

11. CHOOSE YOUR OWN PATH!
Your choice about how you
pursue coaching
It doesn’t have to be so binary
of course.
Many coaching skills are
transferable and will continue
to support you on whatever
path you choose.

12. “Coaching is unlocking people’s potential to
maximize their own performance. It is helping
them to learn rather than teaching them.”
“The word originates from Greek mythology,
in which it is reported that Odysseus, when
setting out for Troy, entrusted his house and
the education of his son Telemachus to his
friend, Mentor. “Tell him all you know,”
Odysseus said, and thus unwittingly set some
limits to mentoring.”

14. Be more
coach.
ICF defines coaching as
partnering with clients in a
thought-provoking and creative
process that inspires them to
maximize their personal and
professional potential.

15. Coaching Skills

16. Be more
coach.
listening

17. Under your seat – there is a note.
If you have a note, then you are the listener.
If there is no note, then you are the talker.
Pair a talker with a listener.
In your pairs, as the talker - talk about something you have been
proud of, something you have accomplished.
As the listener follow the instructions on the note.
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18. Do you want to swap
the roles?

19. Listen:
Listen with encouragement
Ask powerful questions.
Clarifying questions.

20. There is no note this time, no tricks.
Practise your listening skills.
In your pairs, as the talker talk about something you have been proud
of, something you have accomplished.
As the listener this time listen. Actively. Don’t interrupt.
At the end of the 2 minutes. Take 1 minute to replay the
conversation back to the talker. Then Swap roles.
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21. The quality of your attention
determines the quality of other
people’s thinking.
In the presence of the question,
the mind thinks again.
Thinking for yourself is the
thing on which everything else
depends.

22. Be more
coach.
give recognition
and praise

23. Developmental needs
Mia Kellmer Pringle

24. Praise: The Magic
Ingredient in all
Relationships
Praise for doing and praise for being
5 positive : 1 negative ratio

25. Be more
coach.
be curious

26. In pairs.
Talker: Are you proud of someone, family, friend,
colleague, why – tell the story to your listener?
Listener: be curious about why this was a proud
moment? Practise your curiosity.
Swap roles.
3 minutes each.
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27. Summary
and next
steps
• Improve and practise
your listening
• Recognise
achievements and
praise people for
them.

28. Thank you

30. The Wheel of anything
Zeus and Skiffington
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Empathy Influence
Technical
Listening
Mentoring
Conflict
resolution
Agile
knowledge
Collaboration
5 minutes