2. In 2019, a crack agile coaching unit was sent to prison for a
project crime they didn't commit.
These coaches promptly learnt some new techniques to
support teams with.
Today, still wanted by the Project Managers they survive as
Agile coaches of fortune.
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you
can find them...
6. LANDS WORK
Purpose: To increase awareness of the
diversity in the team, promoting empathy
Who: Developers and Testers or Leaders &
Team Members
Technique: Topic In the middle, a land per area, explore
each others lands, create a combined land
7. PRACTICE
• Pick a coach
• Decide the Topic
• Name the Lands
• Coach the people in the land
what it is like
• Explore the Lands
• Go to the combined land
• Agree some actions
8. The Hot Seat
Purpose: Helps generate multiple valuable
questions for the group member. Helps the
other group members appreciate the value
of questions rather than advice.
Who: Anyone
Technique: Seeker in the middle, team
seated in circle around them. Outline
Problem. Team asks question in turn
9. PRACTICE
• Pick someone who has a need
• Form a circle around that person
• Coachee outlines problem & writes
questions down
• Each member of the team asks a
question, building upon each other.
(Coachee does not have to answer)
• What question made the most impact?
10. INFORMAL CONSTELLATION
Purpose: To see and measure
progress on a topic and to give
people a voice quickly
Who: Can be used from 5 to 500
people to get feedback on a topic
Technique: Topic in the middle
3 Questions (Establishing, Unfolding, Resolving)
13. PRACTICE
Resolving Question
How active would you like to be in team coaching?
Polling
Why are you standing where you’re standing, and
what’s that like?”
What is stopping you moving to the second
position?
In groups discuss what is team coaching? 2 minutes discussion
How is it different to one on one coaching?
Develop a climate of psychological safety, conducive to collective learning. Team members learn to have open dialogue, to share concerns and fears and to work with constructive, empathetic challenge. As a result they build deeper levels of trust and higher quality of collaboration.
Gain greater clarity, coherence and consistency around priorities – what’s most important for the team to achieve collectively. One of the signs that a team is successful in this is that individuals routinely put the team priorities ahead of their own personal task priorities.
Better understand the processes that underlie how the team works, and identify ways to improve these. Team coaching helps the team question and validate its own assumptions, with the result that radically new ways of working frequently emerge
Manage all three types of conflict (task, process and relationship) constructively – so that conflict becomes a driver of performance, rather than a barrier.
Understand and value the contribution each member can make at their best, and how to support each other in creating circumstances, where they can play to their strengths
Explore the team culture and help it evolve in line with changing environment, while still enabling everyone to retain their personal authenticity
Increase the level of creativity and innovation
Manage its reputation within and outside the organization
Improve the effectiveness of communication, both between team members and with external stakeholders
Have a stronger sense of shared purpose
Become more resilient to setbacks
Adjust its temporal orientation (achieving a better balance between attention to the past, present, near future and long-term future)