Book description
Coach Individuals, Teams, and Organizations to Greater Success with Agile
As Agilists work to increase an organization's Agility, they will run into major obstacles with mindset shifts, moving to self-organization, and organizational adoption. Over the past decade, more Agilists have been using Professional Coaching to help individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole uncover these obstacles and move forward faster.
In Professional Coaching for Agilists, Damon Poole and Gillian Lee draw on their experience with thousands of Agile coaches and practitioners to show you how to use Professional Coaching to accelerate your Agile adoption. The authors' approach of "learning by doing" teaches by using well-honed exercises, real-life stories, and example coaching conversations.
This guide is framework-independent and has been designed for Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, and any Agilist involved in Agile adoption. It teaches high-value coaching skills, step by step, from "coaching by objective" to managing mutually successful engagements.
Leverage coaching to create aha moments that lead to real change
Learn dozens of coaching techniques and more than a hundred powerful questions
Help people uncover blind spots and assess their opportunities more clearly
Offer your expertise while maintaining your coaching mindset
Help people improve performance by connecting them with their values, goals, and strengths
Blend professional coaching with group facilitation so both work better
Become a great coach by making coaching a natural extension of who you are
The coaching exercises and resources in the appendices are available as free downloads. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1 Basics of Professional Coaching
- 2 Professional Coaching in Depth
- 3 Acting as a Mirror
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4 Offering Expertise
- Resisting the Urge to Provide Unsolicited Expertise
- Handling Explicit Requests for Expertise
- Sharing the “Minimum Viable” Amount of Expertise
- We All Have Blind Spots
- Applying a Coaching Mindset to Teaching
- Creating a Self-Serve Knowledge-Sharing Environment
- Guidelines for Sharing Feedback and Expertise
- Additional Considerations for Sharing Feedback and Expertise
- Receiving Feedback as a Coach
- Chapter Summary
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5 Coaching toward Performance
- Connecting People with Their Best Selves
- Shifting from Obstacles to Goals
- Providing Feedback on the Coachee’s Journey
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Rewiring Our Thought Patterns
- What We Do Now Is How We’ve Succeeded So Far
- Coaching Technique: Reinterpreting
- Coaching Technique: Reevaluating
- Coaching Technique: Repatterning
- Coaching Technique: Reflection
- The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Rewiring
- More Opportunities for the Coachee to Rewire Their Thought Patterns
- Opportunities for Coachee Self-Improvement
- Team Self-Coaching
- Supporting Coachee Improvement Efforts
- Chapter Summary
- 6 Being the Best Coach You Can Be
- 7 Leveraging Group Facilitation
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8 The Coaching Engagement
- Discovering the Work That Needs Doing
- Doing the Work
- Measuring Agility
- What’s Your Coaching Engagement Model?
- Coaching Contrasted with Other Services
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The Coaching Agreement for the Coaching Engagement
- Creating a Coaching Agreement
- Creating a Coaching Agreement with a Team
- Creating a Coaching Agreement with Leadership
- Creating a Coaching Agreement in the Moment
- Coaching Behaviors That Require a Coaching Agreement
- Turning Verbal Agreements into Written Agreements
- The Path to Creating a Coaching Agreement
- Chapter Summary
- Appendix A: Exercises
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Appendix B: References
- Our Coaching Principles
- Coaching Objectives
- Behaviors to Do and Avoid
- Professional Coaching Starting Reference
- Guidelines for Creating Powerful Questions
- Additional Powerful Questions
- Guidelines for Sharing Feedback and Expertise
- Guidelines for Staying in the Coaching Mode as Much as Possible
- Example Descriptions of an Agile Coach and Professional Coaching
- Example Coaching Agreements—For Individuals, Teams, and Organizations
- Example Service Offerings
- Coaching Techniques
- Recommended Resources
- Index
Product information
- Title: Professional Coaching for Agilists
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2021
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780136741817
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