What is agile coaching? What is expected from you as an agile coach? What you should provide your team? What are the different stances you should master? How to enhance your skills as a coach, mentor, and teacher.
7. What is Coaching?
• “Coaching is an artful conversation in
which the coach helps the coachee see
new perspectives and possibilities so
they can take the next step in their
personal and professional growth.”
8. What is Coaching?
• “In the context
of agile teams, coaching takes on the
dual flavor of coaching and mentoring.”
9. What is the expectations?
Do everything needed to take a team from point A to point B as well as enable them
to take the journey without you.
To move the team from
Group of people
working together
High performing self
organizing team
12. Coach as a role model
• How successful can you be teaching behaviors you do not exhibit?
• What behaviors do you think are most important to be an effective Agile Coach?
15. Teacher Stance
• Classroom situation with a diverse group
• Telling solutions or concrete facts
• Give Knowledge to a group or to an individual as a form of mentoring
16. Being Better Teacher
• Different people learn differently, be prepared to teach the same thing in multiple
ways.
• If comfortable, consider putting exercises before lecture – gives more freedom for
students to explore.
• Make room for practical – real world exercises – whenever possible. They are stickier
and help students apply subject in class.
• What else?
18. Mentor Stance
• Give advice but be aware of ownership.
• Telling solutions
• Give knowledge to an individual as a form of mentoring
19. Being Better Mentor
• Mentor only with permission
• Set a goal and choose a real problem
• Partner in solving the problem – consider pairing.
• Be prepared with references and more to read and study
• Ending with actions and checking in later
• What else?
21. Coaching Stance
• Guide instead of advice.
• Ask for solutions
• Extract Knowledge from individual or a group as a form of facilitation
22. Being a better coach
• Coach only with permission
• Self-aware
• Being Present
• Listening and Curious
• Open ended, powerful questions
• Giving and receiving feedback
After two minutes ask
What did you see?
What type of elephant was that?
What is the elephant color?
Which presepective did you see the elephant?
Did you name the elephant?
Is there anything else about that elephant?
Although we have the same input but we all preseve it in a different way.
What did you notice me do as a coach?
Introduce listening and how important it is.
Introduce presence and being “fully there” for the coachee.
What about repetition?