This document discusses how understanding psychology can help someone become an effective agile coach. It explains that agile transformation requires engaging stakeholders effectively, building high-performing teams, and minimizing conflicts, which psychology can aid with. Understanding what drives human behavior and how to influence it allows agile coaches to better communicate, understand coworkers, and build relationships. Applying psychological concepts like empathy mapping and examining cognitive biases can help coaches influence executives and drive organizational change. In summary, studying psychology provides insights into human motivation and behavior that can improve an agile coach's ability to transform organizations and build successful products and teams.

1. AGILE COACH AS A PSYCHOLOGIST OR
BECOMING A PSYCHOLOGIST
Chandan lal patary

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What comes to our mind?
“Coaching requires a special relationship and an extraordinary conversation in which
people explore ways they can create significant change in their work, careers, or lives”

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6. What Problem we are solving?
• Agile Transforming and Sustain the organizational change effort for long term
• Build right products which generates revenues
• Engaging all the right stakeholders in the most effective, efficient manner
(knowing who to involve, when and how)
• Keeping teams in-sync and updated on what they are planning, building, testing
and releasing
• Sustaining high performance among team members
• Minimized conflicts among team members including distributed6

7. Organizational psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. In
Immunity to Change, they write,
“. . . the change challenges that today’s leaders and their
subordinates face are not, for the most part, a problem
of will.
The problem is the inability to close the gap between
what we genuinely, even passionately, want and what we
are able to do. Closing this gap is a central learning
problem of the twenty-first century.”
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8. How do we connect with these people?
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11. How do we build awesome products?
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12.  Psychology studies people—
who and what they are
 Why they act and think the
way they do and how someone
can improve himself or herself
 Allows people to understand
more about how the body and
mind work together
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15. Executive coaching: How do you influence
them?
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16. How to coach Executives?
Their beliefs are the
result of years of
experience and
objective analysis of
the information they
had available.
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17. Michael Specter talks about “truth” and “facts in his TED talk
from 2010 like this:
“People wrap themselves in their beliefs, and
they do it so tightly that you cannot set them
free. Not even the truth will set them free. And
And listen, everyone is entitled to their opinion,
opinion, they are even entitled to their opinion
opinion on progress […], but you are not
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18. Why Psychology?
• What drives people? And how can you influence human
behavior?
• Psychology makes it easier to live with others by understanding
them more and working with their behavior.
• A greater understanding of how humans think and behave will
help people communicate better.
• By understanding more about yourself and your personality, you
can gain more self-confidence.
• Will be able to understand your coworkers more and stand a better
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22. Empathy map
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24. • Whatever I am saying , you will
not agree , until you apply it
and get benefit
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25. • Festinger concluded that cognitive dissonance, or at least the avoidance of
it, makes a man of strong conviction unlikely to change his opinion in the
face of contradiction; he is immune to evidence and rational argument.
• As Festinger explains: “Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him
facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to
see your point.”
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35. Positive Psychology
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36. • A scientific examination of human
behavior in relation to the work
setting, I/O psychology seeks
to boost productivity and
efficiency in the workplace while
maximizing the well-being of
employees.
• Subjects such as worker
attitudes, employee behaviors and
motivations as well as leadership are
among the routines.
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37. Key takeaway
 Start the journey with your interesting spot and practice in Psychology
 Agile Transformation is all about people, apply psychology to discover
people
 Coach build mastery on people
 Software solution development is by the people for the people
 More we know about the people , we can achieve better agility, People drive
the agility
 Apply tools from the psychology and see the benefits
 Psychological knowledge is every day's need, it helps to build piece at home
also!
Buddha’s quote from 2,600 years ago: “The mind is everything. What you
become.”
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39. CHANDAN: YOU ARE OUT!!!
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