Walking Their Talk, Sustainability, Inspiration
Robert Galen
Sustainability

I saw this wonderfully courageous and informative post by Sabine Canditt the other day where she wrote about Sustainable Scrum. 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sustainable-scrum-responsible-choice-sabine-canditt-x0gef

After just completing a The Week program facilitated by the amazing Ann-Marie Kong, it touched my heart.

That said, I wanted to highlight one comment reaction/interaction between Sabine and Erich Bühler 

Erich said—

Thank you for bringing this approach into the world! Scrum does provide an iterative approach for teams to create value, but its scope is limited to the product level and struggles with dynamics across the whole organization for several reasons.
Without updating the underlying business and financial model at a strategic level, Scrum alone cannot transform organization-wide sustainability.

Sustainability
Short-takes, Inspiration
Robert Galen
Sandy’s Take
Sandy’s Take
Short-takes, Personal Thoughts
Robert Galen
The Human Aspects of Agile Coaching
The Human Aspects of Agile Coaching
Coaching, ACGW, Personal Thoughts
Robert Galen
Keys to Building your Coaching Relationships

I talk a lot about the first step in coaching any client (individual, system, team, etc.) is to build a relationship, gain empathy and understanding, and then gain an idea of where/how to help initially. So, do NOT start to coach until you’ve done some relationship-building. 

But what does a coaching relationship, or a professional relationship in general, look like? What are aspects of that? Here are a few things that come to my mind—

  • Making + taking the time.

  • Explaining what you do—what is Agile Coaching.

  • Building some empathy; walking in their shoes; understanding where they are coming from.

  • Meeting them where they are.

  • Listening; reflective listening; building metaphors together.

  • Connecting with their language, not yours.

Keys to Building your Coaching Relationships
Personal Thoughts, Short-takes
Robert Galen
Privilege Awareness

I recently replied to a LinkedIn post by David Pereira. It was a wonderful post, and I applaud David’s boldness and courage in sharing it. 

Here’s a post comment from Stefan Wolpers—

While I agree fully with your personal stance regarding professionalism, David Pereira, some people will shy away, given the current economic climate. Some of the previously aggravated people may seek an opportunity to settle scores.

And here’s my comment—

I love the clarity (No BS) here. Clarity for David and clarity for those who want to work with and who don't want to work with him.
That said, David has the unique privilege that allows him to adopt this clarity. Many don't.

This post is not about David per se. Instead, he inspired me to write it.

Privilege Awareness

Coaching Presence

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Mindset of the Agile Coach as…

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Mindset of the Agile Coach as…

Self-Mastery is the hub of the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel. As such, it serves as a central connection to all of the competencies with the Wheel. In other words, each competency has self-mastery as a foundational layer when operating within that competency. 

That being said, when I think of Self-Mastery within the context of the ACGW, I also think about the unique mindset that each competency requires. It’s not one mindset across all competencies but unique aspects that emerge for each competency.

Below, I wanted to explore what I think of as essential mindset aspects for each of the primary coaching competencies—

Self-Mastery

  • Checking ego lessness

  • Checking coachability

  • Checking self-awareness

  • Checking community engagement

  • Checking self-care

  • Checking your continuous growth

  • Showing Up – Realizing that every other stance is grounded by YOU.

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An Agile Coaching Conversation

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An Agile Coaching Conversation

I recently saw a post on LinkedIn from Oluf Nissen that made me pause and reflect. I captured a link to it and have revisited it every few days to check in on the ongoing comments.

Sometimes the stream of comments is the most valuable part of the “conversation.” Of note, Lyssa Adkins, Damon Poole, and Michael Spayd weighed in with comments.

Here’s the original post:

I came across an old video with Lyssa Adkins a few days ago, where I noticed and was reminded of the idea that professional coaching is probably mostly a "spice" for the work of agile coaches. It's a surprising reminder, given the amount of posts here on LinkedIn that encourage us to deepen our coaching skills and almost make it sound like you can't help people if you don't have incredible depth in coaching. I don't know what to make of that yet.

Michael Spayd weighed in with this comment: