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Empathy interviews for transformational coaching

Agile Alliance

The post Empathy interviews for transformational coaching first appeared on Agile Alliance. People Process agile coaching agile transformation Coaching empathy interviews Featured transformation

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Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative – Key Accomplishments & Highlights

Agile Alliance

The team working on the Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative has been working steadily over the last six months, and we have now published a draft Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching (Code) and a set of supporting Ethics Scenarios.

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History of Coaching – A True Insight into Coaching

Rapid BI

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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What’s the value proposition of coaches?  

Agile Alliance

Learn how to sell yourself to organizations that don't understand the value of coaches or that might be looking to do away with them when times are tough. The post What’s the value proposition of coaches?

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Design and Run Experiments That Actually Progress Your Business

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Experimenting as a way to explore new products, services, and business models can help eliminate the guesswork involved in building something your customers actually value. That said, it's often quite tricky to take your vision and figure out the first experiment to run. How do you get started? How can you ensure your experiments are well-designed? Join Nick Noreña, educator, entrepreneur, and currently an Innovation Coach at Kromatic, as he walks us through how we can figure out the right experiments to run for any product or service, and in organizations of all sizes.

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Coach Your Team and be Even More Effective and Helpful

Let's Grow Leaders

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. Developmental coaching is a vital approach to developing potential in your employees.

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Is an Agile Coach Camp for you?

Agile Alliance

The magic behind the format of a coach camp lies in the fact that the topics emerge from the attendees’ needs and curiosity, which adds deeper learning to the experience. The post Is an Agile Coach Camp for you?

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Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure

Agile Alliance

It's hard to practice coaching a team or an organization. without actually coaching a team or organization. So, we've created a set of "Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure" games similar to our other coaching games, but focused on teams and organizations. The post Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Reflect the Power of Self-Awareness in Leadership Coaching

Steve Farber

Read more The post Reflect the Power of Self-Awareness in Leadership Coaching first appeared on Steve Farber. Coaching Extreme Leadership Leadership Development Professional Development coaching extreme leadership leadership development mentoring

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How to Coach Employees to High Performance When Time is Limited

Let's Grow Leaders

When You Coach Employees, Make Every Conversation Count You want to coach employees to improve performance, but there’s just so little time. Make every coaching conversation count, by focusing on what each team member needs most.

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Get Better User Insights With Wasteless Validation

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant

Product teams tend to get ahead of themselves by rushing from idea straight to building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). How can a product manager slow their team down and prevent them from wasting valuable resources? Join Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant, as he introduces a new way of understanding MVPs and explores how you can approach validation without wasting the resources of your development team.

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The Agile Coaching DNA

Agile Alliance

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Agile Coach Camp Worldwide – Going Remote!

Agile Alliance

Agile Coach Camp Worldwide (ACC-WW) was no exception. The post Agile Coach Camp Worldwide – Going Remote! The Alliance agile coach camp worldwide eventsOur world became topsy-turvy because of the COVID pandemic.

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Identifying a Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching

Agile Alliance

The Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics initiative is developing a code of ethical conduct to raise coaching standards in Agile coaching and amplify the value of the profession. Process agile coaching Agile Coaching Ethics ethics

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5 Reasons Your Employees Ignore Your Coaching

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever had (what you thought was) a great coaching conversation—your employee seems to get it—but fifteen minutes later they’re back to their old habits? So you give them more coaching, this time “louder” either literally, or through progressive discipline. The post 5 Reasons Your Employees Ignore Your Coaching appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Winning Well coaching feedback performance management

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Potholes in your Roadmap and How to Fill Them

Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor

As a Product Manager, prioritizing work on your roadmap is an important part of your role. To answer roadmap questions, you're probably familiar with frameworks like RICE and Cost of Delay. But products are built by people, and people are messy - unlike these frameworks. Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Adviser, has identified potholes in your roadmap that are preventing you from planning as best as you can. She'll take you through all the opportunities to improve your organization's relationship to its roadmap that you may have missed along the way.

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Coaching Exploratory Testing

Agile Alliance

Coaching agile teams comes with many challenges - often centered around delivery. The post Coaching Exploratory Testing first appeared on Agile Alliance. Agile doesn't have room for manual testing - or at least you're going to hear that from some agile team members! There's a widespread misconception that manual testing is waste. As a result, tester team members often feel increased scrutiny during an agile … Continued.

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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. What Is Executive Coaching?

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Coaching Agreement as Creative Partnership

Agile Alliance

As an Agile coach, have you ever struggled with managing expectations of your role in the organization? The post Coaching Agreement as Creative Partnership first appeared on Agile Alliance. Has magic in any shape or form been implicitly included in your responsibilities or deliverables? People member

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How Leadership Team Coaching Benefits More Than Executives

N2Growth Blog

For that, executives can partner with an experienced leadership team coach. Performance coaching allows leaders to dive into their skills and work and find precise and nuanced ways to improve. What is leadership performance coaching? What does a good leadership coach do?

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Join Robin Zaragoza, product coach and CEO of The Product Refinery, as she shares tips on how to create a powerful Value Proposition that keeps your customer at the heart of your product development process.

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Coach the Coach Episode 2 – Building Relationships

scruminc

Coach the Coach Episode 2 - Building Relationships. To be effective, all coaches must develop a productive relationship with their team or teams. How Should Coaches Start Building Relationships. How to best do that varies from coach to coach.

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Different Types of Coaching

Rapid BI

Coaching has evolved into several very different directions and has become an absolute priority in each and every sphere of life for many people. Coaching has thus been categorized into specific varieties and there are definite coaches who handle their particular fields.

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The changing role of the Agile Coach – business agility requires different coaching

Agile Alliance

Striving for business agility requires a different approach from the agile coaches. I’ll share my experience of how this insight came to me and what this shift meant for us as agile coaches. In my organisation the agile coaches where organised in an CoE. The post The changing role of the Agile Coach – business agility requires different coaching first appeared on Agile Alliance. When organizations proceed on their agile journey their needs shift.

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Article: Group Coaching - Extending Growth Opportunity Beyond Individual Coaching

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article provides an introduction to group coaching and explains how it is different from individual coaching. Workshop Coaching Team Performance Coaching and Mentoring Teamwork Agile Self-organizing Team Collaboration Agile Conferences Communication Culture & Methods article

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Build a Successful and Results-Driven Sales Culture

Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies

Every business asks the same question: How can we increase revenue? Gary Galvin is here to answer that question. He will help you define metrics to drive success, empower your sales team, and create a culture driven by results and accountability; because when your team clearly understands what path they’re on and why they’re on it, they are that much more likely to achieve results.

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Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!

Xebia

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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Level Up Your Leadership with Executive Coaching

Steve Farber

without Phil Jackson coaching him on his journey toward achieving the highest pinnacles of success in the NBA? The post Level Up Your Leadership with Executive Coaching first appeared on Steve Farber. Would Michael Jordan be the G.O.A.T

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Why every good leader needs a coach?

CEO Insider

A google search with the term ‘Executive coaching’ returns 282 million hits, so the coaching industry is as strong as it has ever been. The post Why every good leader needs a coach?

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Article: What Kind of Coach Does Your Team Need?

InfoQ Culture Methods

Coaching is primarily client-driven, the client chooses the right coach for a particular need at a particular time. Agile Leadership Adopting Agile Coaching Teamwork Psychological Safety Coaching and Mentoring Culture & Methods article

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How to Successfully Coach Your Sales Team to Drive Efficiency

Speaker: Steve Benson, Founder and CEO, Badger Maps

A great sales team starts with a manager who’s a great coach. To stay competitive in today’s market, you need to implement a formal coaching approach that is aligned with your buyer’s journey and internal processes to drive results. Fortunately, Steve Benson is here to help you become that great coach.

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When it comes to being coached, what kind of coaching do you prefer to receive?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: When it comes to being coached, what kind of coaching do you prefer to receive? I want a coach who only asks questions and I come up with my own answers 4.52%. I want a coach who offers advice and suggestions on what the answer is 9.04%.

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Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method

Agile Alliance

The post Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method first appeared on Agile Alliance. Samman is a method for people who want to make a difference and improve the way software is built. The focus is specifically on technical practices and how people write code, and it's the best way I know to help software developers to adopt practices like TDD and Refactoring. member

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Every Team Needs A Coach

General Leadership

practice was what coaching. One of my favorites is from the Battle of Cowpens—a pivotal Revolutionary War battle in the South Carolina backcountry that showed how effective a leader can be when playing the role of a coach. The post Every Team Needs A Coach appeared first on General Leadership. Guest Posts coach example Jason Brown Team Wooden “Teaching the players during. was all about to me.“. John Wooden.

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Transition Coaching After Executive Search Placement Increases Success in India

N2Growth Blog

Executive coaching was nearly unheard of in India 15 or so years ago. Now there are thousands of certified executive coaches and multiple ICF chapters engaged in helping executives and their organizations succeed. By Kunal Jha & Kelli Vukelic.

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Driving Discovery and Experimentation in your Organization

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk, David Bland, Founder and CEO, Precoil, and Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product LLC

If you want to build what matters, you can't move forward blindly. But to make progress, you can't let things slow to a crawl while you focus resources on gathering data. This is where continuous discovery and experimentation come in. Join Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk), David Bland (Founder, Precoil), and Hope Gurion (Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product) in a panel discussion as they cover how - and why - to build a culture of discovery and experimentation in your organization.

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Article: Agile Coaches, Agile Guides and Other Family Members

InfoQ Culture Methods

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. Adopting Agile Coaching Culture & Methods article

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Exploring the Ethics of Agile Coaching

Agile Alliance

The post Exploring the Ethics of Agile Coaching first appeared on Agile Alliance. Have you ever been in a gnarly situation where you really struggled to make a decision? Should I go left or should I go right? Should I go over or should I go under?? Should I stay or should I go??? How the heck do you navigate these messed up situations?! And at the end … Continued. member

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Coaching: Leadership Skills Can Be Learned

CoachStation

Leadership coaching and mentoring can be the difference for managers. Related: Coaching Leaders – Learning to Lead CoachStation was created to assist in these exact scenarios. The post Coaching: Leadership Skills Can Be Learned appeared first on CoachStation.

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The Changing Role of the Agile Coach

Agile Alliance

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Bridging the Online and Offline: How to Apply Product Thinking to Expanding Your eCommerce Business

Speaker: John Cutler, Product Evangelist and Coach at Amplitude

In a post-COVID world, online retailers are forced to reevaluate their position and address the challenge of adopting new customer experiences. Even brick and mortar businesses are integrating more digital approaches to CX -- testing out loyalty programs and subscription-based models. Join John Cutler, Product Evangelist and Coach at Amplitude, for this enlightening discussion on the current state of the ecommerce landscape.