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Coaching for You, Your Team and Your Org

Our goal in coaching is aimed at helping others get better at what they do.

Why “player directed sport” Metaphor is Useful

In a "player directed sport" the performance or outcome of the event is dependent on the player in the game. Coaching in this context is aimed at helping the player or team achieve maximum performance for rapid decision making. We don’t want a deficet in your skills, simply because we left. Our goal is to leave real skills in place that can continue to be applied when we are gone.

Our Distinction between Coaching, Consulting and Training

Coaching, helping others get better so that when we leave there is little loss if any of applied skills.

Consulting, we do this for our advanced services and this is what we call “putting our boots on the ground”. Our goal in consulting is to engage longer term and help with needs in product development.

Training is a basic staple; we talk about the ideas in a class room setting that provides enough time for students to actively and safely explore how they are reacting and thinking through the complex tapestry of social cooperative product development. Our goal is to provide enough skills so that they can return to work and begin applying what they have learned.

 

Seminars

Seminars Details

We offer seminars and executive briefings on agile software development.
•    Introduction to Scrum
•    Leading the Change to Agile in a Lean Six Sigma Organization
•    Agile Use Cases
•    Introduction to Agile Thinking
•    and more...

These are content filled seminars and are the pedigrees of the same high quality seminars we deliver at conferences nationwide.

Formats
•    Excutive Briefing
•    Lunch&Learns
•    Introductory
•    Key Notes
•    Select User Groups

Delivery Mechanisms

If this is delivered presented to a large audience (50+) then it would be classic presentation with light Q&A encouraged throughout.

 

Our preference is to break this up into small group discussions (5-7 at a table) and then shift back to larger group summary. This format allows participants to personalize the information presented with a stronger feeling of value. One presenter can orchestrate this well only for groups less than 45. 

 

Ideal, would be to add a co-presenter for delivery. Then we would demonstrate agile behaviors through an interactive dialog and we could handle a larger number of people with small group discussion break out  and large group summary (60-70 folks with small group discussions and large group sumamry).

 

Groups larger than 70+ would be done via a lively interactive dialog with the  two presenters and light Q&A from the audience.

Coaching Services

•    Scrum Adoption
•    Intentional Change
•    Analysis
•    Facilitation
•    Retrospectives
•    Agile Transitions
Each coaching enagagement requires a certain amount of hand crafting please Contact Us for more.