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5 and 10 finger voting
I previously looked at the “MVP” of democracy – voting with a thumb. Now I am looking at the concepts of 5 finger voting and 10 finger voting.
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Thumb based voting
Not everything in coaching is based on complex psychology and systems thinking. Sometimes you just want want a quick way to make a group decision, assess data or gather people’s reactions to an idea. One of the quickest ways to assess an idea is to ask for a show of hands. I leaned this one…
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Jason’s coaching journey. The mysterious cheat sheet
The mysterious cheat sheet In this long read, we continue to learn about Jason and his experience as an agile coach. In this episode Jason and Sonja stumble on some useful tips for coaches when they stumble on a coaching cheat sheet left behind by one of the ancient coaches and they learn some great…
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Jason’s coaching journey – the struggling coaches
Some context before we start This is the second in a series of long articles about Jason, who is an agile coach. In the last episode, Jason was coaching away happily when suddenly it all came crashing down. In this episode we look at how he reacts and how his friend Sonja tries to help…
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Jason’s coaching journey episode one. The big slap
The great thing about agile coaching is that you are helping people to help themselves. So if you get some traction, then people usually enjoy the journey and start to build momentum. Then they help themselves (with your support) and you can clearly see the value of your effort. But it is not always as…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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
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Introducing ideas when you need more credibility
In my last post I talked about presenting new ideas to people in workshops . 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…
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