The Art of Changing | Confessions of a Pragmatic Intellectual's Mind on The Constant in Life, Change!
I had the pleasure to meet one of the greatest coaches in the world, Michael Bungay Stanier. As the second greatest coach in the world, as per introduction & here, he used some spectacular techniques in facilitating the session with at least 200 people. I am sharing some of them here with you. First of…
I was shouting “do not give out the solution”! The worst part was that I shouted right at the beginning of the meeting. I felt like I was derailing the meeting even before it even started and I wasn’t very happy about it. Before getting into what happened consequently to make me do this, let…
Have you ever encountered situations in which you’ve been asked to coach people whom are not coachable? What would you do in those situations? What are the options that you might have? There are not too many options. There are these actions you might take into consideration: Just Give up, ignore the un-coachable. This is…
This year I decided to take part in Agile Coach Camp Canada West edition (as well as East). It was a unique experience. The format as always was an open space format. It began on Friday, June 17th and ended on Sunday, June 19th. In this Agile Coach Camp, I talked on two Topics and co-hosted on…
I attended “Certified LeSS Practitioner” course instructed by Craig Larman offered by Bertieg in April 2016. I also received “Certified LeSS Practitioner” designation from LeSS; as a result of successfully completing the course and its requirements. You can find more details about this course at https://less.works/course-details/certified-less-practitioner-toronto-122 The topics covered in “Certified LeSS Practitioner” are: LeSS Overview LeSS…
I attended and successfully completed “Facilitation Skills for the Agile Workplace” course instructed by Sue Johnston offered from Its Understood in February/March 2016. I also successfully received “ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)” certificate from ICAgile; as a result of successfully completing the course and its requirements. You can find more details about…
It was a very unhappy time when I had to run a retrospective for a team that their Scrum Master let go the day before. I had to show up and run the retro. It wasn’t that easy to talk to people about what has happened and brought up the discussion. What I decided to do…
I attended and successfully completed “Coaching Agile Teams 3.0” course instructed by Lyssa Adkins and Dr. Michael Hamman offered from Agile Coaching Institute in June 2015. I also successfully received “ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)” certificate from ICAgile; as a result of successfully completing the course and its requirements. The topics covered in…
I was listening to an interview with a well known DJ years ago. The interviewer has asked the DJ what kind of music would he enjoy listening to. The DJ responded that he wouldn’t enjoy listening to music anymore. He used to enjoy music before becoming a DJ. Now that he became a DJ, he…