Coaching when they will do the wrong thing

My last couple of articles have been about presenting ideas so that people listen to what you are saying. But what happens if you explain something to people and then they decide to do the wrong thing anyway? Of course it is possible that you were wrong and that they are right. But what if […]

Notes from the secret agile playbook, creating a coaching agreement

I have been working with some good coaches recently, but the were not very comfortable with the agile paperwork and coaching bureaucracy areas of coaching.

When you lack evidence (or have too much)

I have been writing a couple of articles about presenting new ideas in workshops. But sometimes you want to make a point, but you lack the evidence to back it up. And sometimes you have heaps of points to make, full of evidence and highly relevant learning, but all the evidence will actually get in […]

Rough example of a coaching contract

I promised a couple of people that I would provide a sample coaching contract, along the lines of what I use when I am engaged in agile coaching. so here is one I prepared earlier, aligned to coaching a specific person. coaching contract example

Introducing ideas when you need more credibility

In my last post I talked about about presenting new ideas to people. But sometimes you need to be a little bit more convincing – Especially if you do not yet have credibility with the group or if your idea might by challenging what people currently think. Let’s say for example, that you are telling […]

Facilitation tip – introducing new ideas

I gave a friend some feedback on his facilitation style recently. I suggested the he “introduce new ideas really well and stuff.” Great advice, but perhaps not very specific or useful. Then I ran a facilitation related course and gave people feedback on, among other things, presenting ideas to the team. There seemed to be […]

My keynote at the Melbourne BA development day

I went to the IIBA professional day in Melbourne and I gave the morning keynote for the day. There were about 270 business analysts their to learn about all things BA. I thought I would publish the talk because a couple of people asked me about the content. Apparently there is still some confusion about […]