InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Companies look at agile coaches as agile experts to guide teams through agile working. But that is at odds with the deeper philosophy of true coaching. Calling out Agile Guide as a distinct role when moving into uncharted territory can be especially effective and allows true coaches to maximise their effectiveness too.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

How to be Even More Effective and Helpful as You Coach Your Team. If you’re a manager, you likely hear a lot about not only leading and organizing but also being a coach for your team. Today on Asking for a Friend I talk with Sara Canaday about tips from her new book “Coaching Essentials for Managers.”

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This article provides an introduction to group coaching and explains how it is different from individual coaching.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 29, 2021

This article explores probable sources of mental breakdowns and lack of motivation and confidence along with types of burnout and describes the role agile coaches and organizational leaders can therefore play in addressing burnout. Burnout is not only an individual issue, it happens in teams and organizations. By Anna Lavrova.

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CO2 Business Leadership

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Executive coaching has become a pivotal strategy for businesses aiming to navigate the complexities of modern leadership. Understanding the ROI of Executive Coaching is crucial for organizations committed to fostering growth, innovation, and sustainable success. What is ROI of Executive Coaching Mean?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 23, 2022

Having found what I thought was my calling as an agile coach, I took the tough decision to move sideways into Product Management in the hope of using what I’d learned to one day run my own department. I believed that coming from coaching would allow me to see things others could not and create something special.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. How to make coaching work for your sales team. In this TC+ article, contributor Kevin Varadian explains how to chart a sales coaching journey that boosts retention and increases revenue. How to make coaching work for your sales team.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 29, 2020

For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters. In this article we hear from someone living this new role, using Domain Oriented Testing on a daily basis to ensure acceptance tests have full story coverage, and unit tests verify business behavior, not implementation By Matt Stephens.

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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

The agile coaches are concerned with making the organization agile on a process level. And in some transformations, the team also has an agile technical coach who teaches the team new practices and techniques from Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and SRE. Start coaching your architects.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. In the article, Fisher includes sample questions “you will want to ask every VC you speak with,” along with other tips that will help “when they pop the valuation question.” Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Coaching is everywhere. This article explores the history of coaching through the ages. There are as many forms of coaching methodologies are there are coaches, so is there a “right” way? Or is the term “coaching” a generic word for one-to-one guidance, help or support?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 23, 2022

This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. By Philipp Gündisch, Vladyslav Ukis.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 12, 2022

This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits for organisations to have leadership roles that are focussed on technical enablement and support. By Nicky Wrightson.

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CO2 Business Leadership

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The benefits of executive coaching have become increasingly recognized as a cornerstone for leadership development and organizational success. This article delves into the profound impact of executive coaching, drawing on recent studies to highlight its multifaceted advantages. A 2002 study by C.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 5, 2023

As a person with autism or other neurodiversity, it’s important to get to know yourself really well. It’s even better if another person can get to know you from the inside-out. Dennie Declercq and his mom Ivette Marchand found a way to allow for open and vulnerable communication between them.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 4, 2021

Niall McShane has written a book Responsive Agile Coaching, aimed at people who are coaching individuals, teams and organisations in new ways of working to help guide others in adapting to changing circumstances and responding to new demands.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 4, 2021

Virtual coaching can help to improve group interaction or social dynamics in virtual settings where people work together remotely as a group or team. By William Rothwell, Cho Hyun Park.

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CO2 Business Leadership

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Executive coaching plays a pivotal role in guiding leaders to not just recognize, but also embrace their vulnerabilities. How Executive Coaching Helps: An executive coach can assist in reframing this mindset. By encouraging leaders to engage in reflective practices, coaches help them to understand the root of their fear.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2021

This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers. One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). By Emily Bache.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2023

Employees want frequent, personalized, one-on-one coaching, but managers are constrained by their already heavy burdens. New AI tools show promise to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of managerial coaching — but first, common sources of fear and mistrust must be overcome.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2023

Topics such as trauma-informed law, volleyball coaching, legal counseling, education, and social activism have arisen. Scientific and clinical understanding of how the human nervous system develops and works has increased tremendously. Its implications are so profound they radiate far beyond the field of psychology. By Anton Skornyakov

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 15, 2020

As a coach, what do you need to know to have more success, getting your foot in the door of a client company? What obstacles will you have to overcome?

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 30, 2020

Over the course of several years as an executive coach, I’ve been asked many times from company leaders for some pointers on how to take what they have learned in coaching back to coach their teams. Here’s the catch: they only ask for these pointers after a coaching series, making it relatively easy to help.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JULY 20, 2020

Ask a bunch of top executives who they believe is the best coach in the world, and they will likely reel off the names of ‘the usual suspects’ – you know, the ones that pay millions a year to their SEO-agency in order to occupy that cherished top spot on any of the most common coach-related web-searches. And, they’d all be wrong.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 4, 2019

A coach is not responsible for resolving conflict, the help the team keep conflict healthy and provide guidance and tools which enable positive outcomes By Deepti Sinha. Conflicts are not bad, it is the way we handle them that makes a difference. In a healthy team environment conflict can be a catalyst for creativity and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Too often, managers see coaching as a one-on-one practice.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 6, 2020

License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Helping CEOs Weather the Storms: Psychologist Coaches Wear 4 Hats are those of the author William H. With the sands beneath their feet shifting, there’s never been a more uncertain time to be a CEO. CEO turnover increased by 12.9%

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 28, 2023

In this article, Dietrich Moerman tells his own story about ADHD while working as a software developer and becoming a team lead, what he learned, and what he found to be working well to help people with ADHD and more to thrive in their teams and companies.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 20, 2021

Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. Test management is dead, it just really needs to evolve.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2024

Just as a soccer coach must simultaneously pursue both scoring and defending, leaders must constantly focus their attention on opportunities to create value — through innovation, risk-taking, and experimentation — and to protect value — by preserving and defending key aspects of their responsibilities. But how can leaders do this?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 6, 2021

Key topics from this report are testing careers, the impact of Covid-19, agile, DevOps and other methodologies, testing coaching & training, and automation and scripting. The 2021 State of Testing report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing.

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Agile42

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I wrote an article (08/2020) for the Coaching-Magazin Online about "Archetypes for change - Leadership coaching in complex times" and I'm happy to share the. Continue reading Archetypes for change – Leadership coaching in complex times at agile42.

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NeverFriday

JULY 31, 2016

A tech career coach can give you ideas and guide you to the next stage in your career. This is where a tech career coach comes in. Here are the top three reasons you need to hire a tech career coach. #1 A tech career coach can help you figure out how you can get from working on small projects to large projects.

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Accenture

JUNE 26, 2018

Where coaching used to be something you exclusively get from the outside of the organization, it is now crucial for organizations to develop an internal capacity to support, grow and sustain greater agility. And yet there are still many organizations still struggling with the idea of needing team coaches. Evolving to Agile Team Coach.

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Toptal

JANUARY 2, 2019

The role of Agile coach has been gaining popularity in recent years. In this article, we will talk about the different types of Agile coaches and their responsibilities. We will discuss how to effectively work with them as a project manager and give suggestions to PMs who want to become Agile coaches themselves.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 22, 2021

Our reader poll today asks: How effective are the leaders in your organization at coaching their team members? Extremely — They’re great coaches. Very — They do a solid job of coaching. Somewhat — Their coaching skills could use some improvement. Development requires coaching.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 10, 2020

Change is our work as agile coaches and leaders. As online collaboration technologies improve and we begin to understand how flexibility and choice become critical in distributed work, modeling and teaching experimentation is important for agile coaches all leaders. By Mark Kilby.

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