4. How Jiu Jitsu
made me a better
Coach
- Martin Kearns – Chief Digital Officer –
Innodev

5. A little bit of my past

6. For a long time I felt stupid !

7. The impact Dementia has had on my life

8. Getting a Big Head
What makes a black-belt agilist
is not someone who can
regurgitate what other people
have written about, but
someone who can invent new
ideas in the same family, and
then work through to success.
And that is why I introduce
Martin as a black-belt agilist.
Dr. Alistair Cockburn.

9. Karate and Kids

10. I was hot back then
You simply MUST get better at the boring
logistics side of things. Start looking at a
watch again!!!
That former athlete who can't bear to see
a watch nonsense is the biggest load of
crap I've ever heard.
If, during a retro, someone fed a similar
excuse to you as a reason not to respond
to repeated feedback, you'd be all over
them like a rash!!!
(and you know who wrote this...with love).

11. Try Something Different

13. Self Awareness
Is my responsibility
and I need to manage
keeping it.
Have a more open mind
on how to look.
Past mistakes are poor indicators for
what the future holds and what we
need to look out for.
Build some
Good Habits
Habit grow fast
when repeated in a
predictable way.
I need to
monitor
Build the picture on
how I present myself
Stop looking
for a finish
line
Understand the
complexity of the
problem and
environmental
shifts.
Exec Summary Report

14. Don’t allow coaching to become a habit
Shape a new habit mindfully to build
the behaviours required for coaching.

15. This is the face of failure

16. I need to
monitor
Build the picture on
how I present myself

17. Once a habit is in
place it is
effortless to
maintain.
Habits Conserve our Self Control
Effortless
No DecisionRecurrent

18. Build self-awareness into a Mental Model
What is
essential to me
to remember ?
Have an
Intent
What’s the
point
Keep to
core
values
How is what I
am
introducing
going to help
me see
differently ?
How does this
reflect who I
want to be ?

19. Customer Perceptions
I want to focus on the Customer opportunities that are presenting
themselves to me in my role and how agile methods and my mindset
being aligned to turn opportunity into value.
Coach’s Observation
As a relationship matures, coaches will gain greater insight into the
coachee’s learning cycle and how to monitor progress against ambition.
Sometimes different approaches can be the next best step.
Other Perspectives
There is a vast number of reference points for transformation work.
At times there is a need for a coachee to anchor the conversation in
data or surface new perspective by answering tailored open questions.
Other
Perspectives
Coach’s
Observation
Customer
Perception
Challenging
the System
Challenging the System
Ultimately the goal of transformation is to provide value to the
customer, relating change to performance and address the
fundamental constraints / impediments / velocity requires focus and
active measurement.
Build a Coaching Compass

20. Build some
Good Habits
Habit grow fast
when repeated in a
predictable way.

21. Rolling with a Brown Belt

22. My Bad Habit : Procrastinating
When to start
Unfixed HabitFixed Habit
Waiting for the
”right” time is
usually just
justifying a delay
Is this really a problem ?
Am I Conscious ?
Yes No
Requires more focus
and energy in
decision making and
adjustment
By continuously doing with consistency
and repetition I will reach a point where
no decision is needed. This has become
natural and is comforting to who I am.

23. It still feels like this

24. Self Awareness
Is my responsibility
and I need to manage
keeping it.

25. I think to often as coaches / leaders we
sweep past mistakes under the carpet,
deflecting to things we didn’t know at the
time.
Convinced we will get it right this time,
without ever learning what we are doing
wrong. Re-creating the problems of our past.

26. 6
3
2
1
5
4
Look at the big picture
through the lens of small
steps will give me the
motivation to keep going
Many tools are
required to
maintain a
growth mindset.
Don’t become
prescriptive in
how to change.
Tell people about
what you have
learned and are
willing to try.
Knowledge helps
us understand
what works for us
Self-Encouragement
is better that Self-
Blame
Direct Feedback
needs to be heard
no followed
blindly
Create your own space
Build your
awareness

28. Stop looking for that finish line

29. Stop looking
for a finish
line
Understand the
complexity of the
problem and
environmental
shifts.

31. When we Coach
Each time we must navigate
unchartered paths filled with social
rules we don’t understand.
Common Sense
Cause us to put to much faith in
how to solve a problem and we
reframe to suit our dominant logic
Emergence
Collective understanding creeps up
on you over time by retaining a
holistic picture to the problem.
There is no common sense to Coaching
Problem
Commitment
Competence
Contradictory
Beliefs
System
Conditions

32. Under an illusion of understanding we will
develop a lacking in the motivation
required to address the problem.

33. Maintain a Coaching Performance Log
http://ipcco.co/employee-coaching-log-template/
Our mindset when dealing with complexity we have a tendency to
ignore certain type of factors that turn out be important.

35. Have a more open
mind on how to look.
Past mistakes are poor
indicators for what the future
holds and what we need to look
out for.

37. No method will ever be replicated as told. However attention to
detail in learning is helpful if you want to implement effectively.

38. Rolling to the holistic flow of learning
Macro: Chaining, traps, strategy
MICRO: METHOD, DETAIL, TECHNIQUE
Learning technique is nothing like practice
Implementing under the stress of a situation is the key to building resilience

39. The micro / macro roll to coaching
Macro: Organisation Problem
MICRO: INDIVIDUAL PROBLEM
Learning the methods and/or reasoning of the person
Does not mean that the understanding of Culture, Social Dynamics,
Meme of groups can be inferred.

40. Whatever liberates our spirit whilst on the path to mastery
over ourselves is constructive and must be embraced.

41. References for my Keynote