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Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers

TechCrunch

The startup has built an AI relationship coach to help people grow and foster real-life connections by offering advice and answers to relationship questions. While combating loneliness is a great mission — and some groups of people may be more open to chat with a bot than a human — this feels like it has the potential to go so wrong so fast.

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Article: Virtual Group Coaching: How to Improve Group Relationships in Remote Work Settings

InfoQ Culture Methods

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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Medley, the coaching platform for personal and professional development, gets $3.7M led by a16z

TechCrunch

Medley , the group coaching platform that focuses on both personal and professional development, announced the close of a $3.7 The platform launched back in July of 2020 with the goal of facilitating small group discussions led by a professional development coach. million seed round led by a16z today. ”

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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. These capabilities are more focused on the social domain than the technical.

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Spain’s Rosita Longevity, an app that helps seniors be more active, is headed to Florida

TechCrunch

Hearts Radiant , a Spanish startup that’s building a “longevity coach” for seniors — with the goal of extending quality of life through app-based personalized coaching designed to combat and even prevent frailty — has closed a seed round of funding as it gears up to launch in the U.S.,

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Networking tips for IT leaders: A guide to building connections

CIO

The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself. Joe Topinka, a career coach with CIO Mentor in Charlotte, NC, says he was not originally a big fan of networking. “My

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CSM certification: Costs, requirements, and all you need to know

CIO

The course provides a full overview of how to organize and support a Scrum team, and covers learning objectives including scope, Lean, agile, coaching, and service to the development team, product owner, and organization. Applicants must attend a CSM course, spread across two days in person or four online, taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer.

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