InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

You may have heard about coaching and wondered what it entails and how you might incorporate it into your role. Do you need to have “coach” as part of your job description in order to use coaching skills? This article defines coaching and shows how anybody can use it in their role.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 24, 2022

Coaching is primarily client-driven, the client chooses the right coach for a particular need at a particular time.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2021

This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers. One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). By Emily Bache.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 29, 2021

This article explores probable sources of mental breakdowns and lack of motivation and confidence along with types of burnout and describes the role agile coaches and organizational leaders can therefore play in addressing burnout. Burnout is not only an individual issue, it happens in teams and organizations. By Anna Lavrova.

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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

The agile coaches are concerned with making the organization agile on a process level. And in some transformations, the team also has an agile technical coach who teaches the team new practices and techniques from Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and SRE. Start coaching your architects.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Barbara Cooper, former CIO at Toyota Motor North America and one of the top CIO coaches in America, argues that the ignorance gap is more like an ignorance grand canyon. There is a huge understanding gap regarding who IT is and what IT does.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 30, 2020

Over the course of several years as an executive coach, I’ve been asked many times from company leaders for some pointers on how to take what they have learned in coaching back to coach their teams. Here’s the catch: they only ask for these pointers after a coaching series, making it relatively easy to help.

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NeverFriday

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In this podcast episode we talk about how a team lead should be a coach and mentor to the team. I talk about a few scenarios and about the contrasts between the “coach” and “fixer” mindsets that leaders can adapt. Today I wanted to address coaching for team leads. Or a coach? Transcript.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 4, 2021

Virtual coaching can help to improve group interaction or social dynamics in virtual settings where people work together remotely as a group or team. By William Rothwell, Cho Hyun Park.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JULY 20, 2020

Ask a bunch of top executives who they believe is the best coach in the world, and they will likely reel off the names of ‘the usual suspects’ – you know, the ones that pay millions a year to their SEO-agency in order to occupy that cherished top spot on any of the most common coach-related web-searches. And, they’d all be wrong.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 12, 2022

This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits for organisations to have leadership roles that are focussed on technical enablement and support. By Nicky Wrightson.

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CO2 Business Leadership

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Executive coaching has become a pivotal strategy for businesses aiming to navigate the complexities of modern leadership. Understanding the ROI of Executive Coaching is crucial for organizations committed to fostering growth, innovation, and sustainable success. What is ROI of Executive Coaching Mean?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we take a deeper look at the practice and purpose of agile coaching. We find out why interactions are the most essential focus in agile coaching - and also the basis of learning and professional development for the agile coaches themselves.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 23, 2022

Having found what I thought was my calling as an agile coach, I took the tough decision to move sideways into Product Management in the hope of using what I’d learned to one day run my own department. I believed that coming from coaching would allow me to see things others could not and create something special.

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Coaching is everywhere. This article explores the history of coaching through the ages. There are as many forms of coaching methodologies are there are coaches, so is there a “right” way? Or is the term “coaching” a generic word for one-to-one guidance, help or support?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Alon Laniado founded tech-enabled human services startups Fitmate Coach and PathMotion. Utilizing AI and other automation tools to enhance the delivery of human services can make exclusive services like career coaching available to more people. Previously, he was a Bain & Co. strategy consultant and a U.K.

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Agile42

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Welcome to our comprehensive nine-part series exploring the multifaceted world of coaching in agile environments. We’ll be publishing a new article every two weeks, diving deep into the nuances, challenges, and best practices of agile coaching. Enjoy reading! Enjoy reading!

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CEO Insider

JUNE 6, 2020

License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Helping CEOs Weather the Storms: Psychologist Coaches Wear 4 Hats are those of the author William H. With the sands beneath their feet shifting, there’s never been a more uncertain time to be a CEO. CEO turnover increased by 12.9%

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With over two decades in technology and leadership roles, Sewell, whose identity has been anonymized for this article, was confident her skills and experiences would transfer but felt that her resume might not stand out for industries outside the public sector.

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Toptal

JANUARY 2, 2019

The role of Agile coach has been gaining popularity in recent years. In this article, we will talk about the different types of Agile coaches and their responsibilities. We will discuss how to effectively work with them as a project manager and give suggestions to PMs who want to become Agile coaches themselves.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

And to ensure a strong bench of leaders, Neudesic makes a conscious effort to identify high performers and give them hands-on leadership training through coaching and by exposing them to cross-functional teams and projects. “But for practical learning of the same technologies, we rely on the internal learning academy we’ve established.”

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 23, 2022

This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. By Philipp Gündisch, Vladyslav Ukis.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Use the final section of this article to find one new person to provide positive leadership influence. Mentors, coaches, sponsors and others can bring new perspectives, questions and resources. Consulting and Coaching. Today, you can hire coaches and consultants for reasonable rates. Not if you valued your time.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This article explores four key areas that can help a change consultant succeed when dealing with toxic people. Psychopathic or narcissistic toxic employees can slow down the adoption of change in the company. Many of the techniques or practices you use with healthy people do not work well with psychopaths or narcissists. By Erich Bühler.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 15, 2024

I won’t cover all of Prompty’s features in this article. The writing coach enters the room. The writing coach even correctly detected a mistake and then rewrote the abstract with only a tiny change. This article is part of XPRT.#17. Next to that, Prompty comes with a rich dev and test experience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Dulski explained that there are some tools for managers, like surveys from Gallup and Glint, and there are training options, like executive coaches. “I was lucky enough to have the benefit of getting executive coaches or being sent to training, and those felt like being taught how to fish,” said Dulski.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

ChatGPT correctly, in my view said it could help by enhancing job opportunities and workforce training, including personalized job coaching and interview prep. What are 10 empathic ways generative AI could help them in their day-to-day lives? Notably, a Google search confirms that practice interviewing is recommended by the U.S.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 10, 2020

Change is our work as agile coaches and leaders. As online collaboration technologies improve and we begin to understand how flexibility and choice become critical in distributed work, modeling and teaching experimentation is important for agile coaches all leaders. By Mark Kilby.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 4, 2021

This article shares how Padawans and Jedis can inspire and teach us how to help people of a wide variety of backgrounds, ages, and experience levels to observe and understand failures in production. It covers practical lessons learned and shares how you can create and rollout a program for SRE Apprentices within your organization.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 5, 2023

As a person with autism or other neurodiversity, it’s important to get to know yourself really well. It’s even better if another person can get to know you from the inside-out. Dennie Declercq and his mom Ivette Marchand found a way to allow for open and vulnerable communication between them.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

How to make coaching work for your sales team. In this TC+ article, contributor Kevin Varadian explains how to chart a sales coaching journey that boosts retention and increases revenue. In this TC+ article, contributor Kevin Varadian explains how to chart a sales coaching journey that boosts retention and increases revenue.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

However, so many of the articles from the first half of the year are so timely now, we wanted to give you a chance to read any you may have missed. This leadership blog from 2014 continues to be our most-read leadership article. Read the article here. Most Popular Leadership Blog Articles. Read more here.

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Agile Alliance

MAY 8, 2019

This article is specifically targeted toward RTE’s, Product Management, and coaches that are currently engaged in establishing a program level workflow (Kanban) that prioritizes the highest valued features as candidates for the Program Increment (PI) Planning event.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The winner will receive a feature article on TechCrunch.com, one-year free subscription to Extra Crunch and a free Founder Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt this fall. Apply here by June 7th. Ten founders will pitch onstage for five minutes, followed by a five-minute Q&A with an esteemed panel of VC judges. The Training. Qualifications.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 22, 2021

Our reader poll today asks: How effective are the leaders in your organization at coaching their team members? Extremely — They’re great coaches. Very — They do a solid job of coaching. Somewhat — Their coaching skills could use some improvement. Development requires coaching.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 1, 2015

I had just been promoted to manager and head swim team coach of our neighborhood pool. But then, my assistant coach, John, who had gotten in the water with the kids to show them it couldn’t be THAT cold, pulled himself out the pool and came running over. The head coach of our rival swim team. The phone rang. It was Peter.

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