This document describes an Agile Open Space meetup for empowering self-organizing teams through coaching. The meetup covers leadership, coaching, and facilitation skills for team empowerment. It outlines an introduction to coaching and similarities/differences between coaching and other roles. The meetup agenda includes coaching sessions on setting goals and addressing barriers, with a focus on limiting beliefs and behaviors. The goal is to help coachees create a learning plan with experiments and community support.

1. Agile Open Space
Empowering Self-Organizing
Teams: Basics of Coaching
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2. Why are we here? Empowering
Self-Organizing Teams
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Leadership Skills. Who are you? How do you
show up in the team? What influence do you have
on other team members?
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Coaching Skills. How can you empower others?
How can you help them learn and grow?
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Facilitation Skills. How can you read
interpersonal dynamics and team behaviour? How
can you intervene in the team to nurture
creativity and collaboration?
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4. Introduction to Coaching
• What is coaching and what is not
coaching?
• What are “typical” elements of a
coaching conversation?
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5. What are the
similarities & differences between?
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Coaching and mentoring?
Coaching and therapy?
Coaching and teaching?
Coaching and parenting?
Coaching and conversation with a good
friend?
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7. A Five-Domain Coaching Model
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8. Session 1:
Current Reality and Desired Future
Options
Obstacles
What’s the
ideal
situation?
Way Forward
What’s the
current
situation?
Reality
Assessment of
reality (facts)
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Goal
Envision the
desired future
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9. Session structure
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5 min Introduction
40 min Coaching Session
10 min Team Retrospective (write on big post-it)
5 min General Retrospective (with everybody)
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Form groups of 6-8 people
1 coachee
2 coaches
3-5 observers (write notes, use timeouts)
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10. Session 2: What’s in the way?
Options
Obstacles
Explore gaps and
barriers
What are (all)
the different
barriers?
Way Forward
What are the
most limiting
barriers?
(prioritize)
Reality
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11. Session 3: Discover Hidden Potentials
Options
Obstacles
Explore gaps and
barriers
What are the
personal barriers:
Way Forward
limiting beliefs, fear
and patterns of
behavior?
Reality
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12. Co-Create Awareness
Fear
Limiting beliefs
Patterns of behaviour
“I’m afraid that…”
“He won’t, I can’t…”
“I/we normally…”
Remind coachee that
feeling fear doesn’t
mean that something
is dangerous.
Clarify assumptions,
invite doubt and
question beliefs.
(one at a time)
Make coachee see
(and feel) the
consequences of
his/her (habitual)
behaviour.
Have you felt (this)
fear before?
What happened?
How did you deal with
it?
How does it feel like
to trust someone?
To trust yourself?
How can you be sure?
What are the facts?
What are different
interpretations of
these facts?
What are counter
examples?
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What will be the
consequences if you
continue with this
behaviour?
For yourself?
For Tom and Mary?
Tomorrow?
In 10 years?
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13. Session 4: Create a Learning Plan
Options
Create learning
experiments
(kaizen)
What are
appropriate
learning steps?
Obstacles
Way Forward
Integrate
practice and
support
How can coachee
gain support
from practice and
community?
Reality
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14. Conclusions
• Wrap-up, comments, insights – in the “park”
• Future events:
Coaching Retreat, Boston, March 15th
Coaching Skills, Seedbox, April 26th
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