The document discusses different stances that coaches can take, including the traditional coaching stance of believing the solution lies within the client. It also discusses stances from sports coaching like telling, showing, teaching, selling, training, and coaching. Additional stances discussed include those from interactions like consulting, mentoring, and coaching where there are deltas in knowledge, experience, and process mastery. The document advocates that coaches have flexibility in their stances and considers stances for different types of coaching like XP, Kanban, Scrum, and SAFe. It also discusses the internal stance of different coaching approaches and having the right stance for each situation and client.
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Stances of Coaching - OOP2018
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Stances Of Coaching
More than just "the coaching stance“
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Function
Process
Process
Elementary Process
Elementary Process
Elementary Process
Elementary Process
SUBJECT AREA 1
NTT1
NTT2
NTT-A
NTT-B
NTT-D
NTT-C
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~2011
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2008
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P
olving
eadership
roblem
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Caveat:
“All Models Are Wrong –
But Some Are Useful”
— George E. P. Box
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What Kind Of Coach?
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XP-Coach
Agile-Coach
Kanban-Coach
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…partnering with clients in a
thought-provoking and creative
process that inspires them to
maximize their personal and
professional potential.
Professional
Coaching
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THE COACHING STANCE
• The solution lies within the
client
• Coach and client are at an
equal level (peers)
• The coach is not the one to
find the solution
• The client is the expert for
them self
• The coach offers a container
without judgement
• Coach and client work with
with an open outcome
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WHAT OTHER
STANCES?
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THE STANCES OF THE
SPORTS COACH
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Sports analogies Inspired
by discussions with
Dan Brown
at the #KLR16
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STANCES OF THE SPORTS-COACH
Tell
Show
Teach
Sell
Train
Coach
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(!)
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TELL
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SHOW
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TEACH
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TRAIN
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SELL
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COACH (!)
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COACHING STANCES
• Coaching ⩯ Professional Coaching
• THE coaching stance (solution lies within the client etc.)
• Coaching ⩯ Sports Coaching
• Several stances for the coach – One of them is similar to the
stance the coach assumes in Professional Coaching
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∆
INTERACTION STANCES
(INCLUDING COACHING)
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Consulting
Mentoring
Coaching
➙ Delta in knowledge
➙ Delta in experience
➙ Delta in process-mastery
(coaching-process)
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Introducing Sustaining
A personal point of view
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Introducing Sustaining
A personal point of view
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FOR KANBAN THERE IS
ST AT I K
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/statik-systems-thinking-approach-implementing-kanban-david-anderson
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STATIK
Systems
Thinking
Approach
To
Introducing
Kanban
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/statik-systems-thinking-approach-implementing-kanban-david-anderson
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STATIK
• Understand what makes the service fit for purpose for the customer
• Understand sources of dissatisfaction with the current system
• Analyze demand
• Analyze capability
• Model workflow
• Discover classes of service
• Design the Kanban system
• Socialize the design and negotiate implementation
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/statik-systems-thinking-approach-implementing-kanban-david-anderson
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Introducing Sustaining
Evolution
[of the underlying system(s)]
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STANCES OF THE SPORTS-COACH
Tell
Show
Teach
Sell
Train
Coach
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(!)
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HOW ABOUT XP-COACHING?
• Planning Game
• Small Releases
• Metaphor
• Simple Design
• Testing
• Refactoring
• Pairing
• Collective Ownership
• Continuous Integration
• 40 hour week
• On-Site Customer
• Coding Standards
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EVOLVING KANBAN SYSTEMS
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Tell Show Teach Sell Train Coach
Visualize X X X X X
Limit WIP X X X
Manage flow X X X
Explicit policies X X X X
Feedback loops – X X X
Scientific method – X X X X
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INTERNAL STANCE OF THE COACH
• For example:
• Co-active coaching (e.g. H. Kimsey-House et.al)
• Systemic coaching (e.g. P.W. Gester)
• Solution focused coaching (e.g. Steve de Shazer)
• Provocative coaching (e.g. Frank Farelly)
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AN EXAMPLE…
• What’s the optimal WIP-Limit?
• For what purpose (aka why) do you want to know the
optimal WIP-limit?
• How does the optimal WIP-limit affect the system?
• How would you recognize that you have found the optimal
WIP-limit
• Why should you need a WIP-limit at all?
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INTERNAL STANCE OF THE COACH
TECHNIQUE OF THE COACH
• For example:
• Co-active coaching (e.g. H. Kimsey-House et.al.)
• Systemic coaching (e.g. P.W. Gester)
• Solution focused coaching (e.g. Steve de Shazer)
• Provocative coaching (e.g. Frank Farelly)
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It’s not the coach who
gets the gold medal!
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COACHING AGREEMENT
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“It is only possible to coach a
client who wants to be coached”
Part of the coaching agreement is
the client’s commitment to work
on their defined goals
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What Kind Of Coach?
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AGILE COACHING COMPETENCY
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Agile-Lean Practitioner Professional
Coaching
Teaching
Mentoring
Technical
Mastery
Business
Mastery
Transformation
Mastery
Applies Agile practices,
lives Agile values Partnering with clients in a
creative process that inspires their
personal and professional potential (from ICF)
Facilitating
Source:
Agile Coaching Competency Model
http://agilecoachinginstitute.com/agile-coaching-resources/
Instructing others in
specific knowledge,
skills and perspective
Sharing knowledge, skills &
perspectives that foster the
personal and professional
growth of someone else
Technical expertise
as a software
craftsperson
Expert at
business-value-
driven innovation
and product
development
Expertise as an
organizational development
and change catalyst
A neutral process holder who guides groups
through processes that help them come
to solutions and make decisions
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COACHING STANCES
Tell
Show
Teach
Sell
Train
Coach
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(!)
The solution lies within
the client
The client is the expert
for them self
Coach and client work
together on an open
outcome
∆Consulting
Mentoring
Coaching
➙ Delta in knowledge
➙ Delta in experience
➙ Delta in process-mastery
(coaching-process)
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
&
HAVE FUN COACHING OUT THERE
–
YOUR WAY!
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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• If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact me via e-mail
at: mm@michaelmahlberg.com
• You can also find me onTwitter as MMahlberg
• I blog on http://agile-aspects.michaelmahlberg.com
• My homepage is http://www.michaelmahlberg.de