The document outlines a presentation by Mahmoud Ghoz on various coaching stances within agile development, emphasizing the importance of effective coaching for team performance. It describes the roles of a coach, teacher, and mentor, highlighting the need for self-awareness, active listening, and the ability to facilitate growth. The session agenda includes exercises and discussions on how to guide teams towards sustainable agility.

1. Coaching
Stances
10 Mar. 2021
Mahmoud Ghoz

2. Presented
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Session Title
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5. Agenda
• Elephant exercise
• What is coaching?
• Teacher Stance
• Mentor Stance
• Coaching Stance

6. Elephant exercise
Close your eyes and think about
an elephant

7. Elephant exercise
Open your eyes and tell me
what do you notice?

8. 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.”

9. What is Coaching?
• “In the context
of agile teams, coaching takes on the
dual flavor of coaching and mentoring.”

10. 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

11. Past Future
Coaching, mentoring, consulting, And counseling

12. Coaching, Facilitation, Mentoring, and Training

13. 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?

14. Agenda
• Elephant exercise
• What is coaching?
• Teacher Stance
• Mentor Stance
• Coaching Stance

15. Teacher Stance
Why this stance is important?

16. 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

17. Teacher Stance
• 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
Why this stance is important?

19. Mentor Stance
• Give advice but be aware of ownership.
• Telling solutions
• Give knowledge to an individual as a form of mentoring

20. Mentor Stance
• 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
Why this stance is important?

22. Coaching Stance
• Guide instead of advice.
• Ask for solutions
• Extract Knowledge from individual or a group as a form of facilitation

23. Being a better coach
• Coach only with permission
• Self-aware
• Being Present
• Listening and Curious
• Open ended, powerful questions
• Giving and receiving feedback

24. Thank you
Mahmoud Ghoz

25. Q&A
Mahmoud Ghoz