If you could open up the mind of an aglie coach as they work with a team, what would you find? How do they make sense of what's going on? How do they decide when to speak, what to say, what tools to use, when to stay silent?
How are we supposed to be the agile experts our clients think they need, and at the same time approach our teams with "beginner's mind". How do we excite in our teams a wonder at the magic that happens when agility is working really well, without agile "ideology" become yet another fixed mindset impeding their development?
This model is designed to help agile coaches navigate the natural tensions and paradoxes of our work.
Beyond the Codes_Repositioning towards sustainable development
Agile in Wonderland - A Developmental Stage Coaching Model
1. Metaphor1 Machine Family Living System Wonderland
Team Coaching Type 2 Skills Performance Development Transformation
Developmental Stage 3 Expert Achiever Catalyst Co-Creator
Organisational Stage 4 Orange Green Teal
What’s Going On? 1 Language of teams
Functional behaviours
Appreciate individuals
Build relational strengths
Develop strategic
purpose & identity
Innovate and change
Curiosity
Reflexivity
Agile Coaching
Competency Framework 5
Agile-Lean Practitioner
Teaching
Technical Mastery
Facilitating
Mentoring
Business Mastery Transformational Mastery
Agile Context Events & Metrics Collaboration, Conflict &
Trust
Systems Thinking &
Adaptation
Curiosity, Evolution &
Post-Agile
Ideological Orientation Functional: Trust me:
doing things this way
gets results
Humanistic: Collaboration
improves engagement
and wellbeing
Generative: Ideology
gives way to shared
values and meaning
Contested: Competing
value systems are
welcomed and explored
Agile in Wonderland Developmental Stage Coaching Model
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