The Art of Changing | Confessions of a Pragmatic Intellectual's Mind on The Constant in Life, Change!
I officially finished my ORSC training in 2021, a journey I started in 2020, and became an ORSC trained coach. This badge represents 84+ hours of advanced systems coaching training, as well as 84 CCE units. A little about ORSC: ORSC stands for Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching. ORSC is an integrated and robust coaching…
As a result of taking both the Kanban Maturity Model and Kanban Coaching Practices courses, I am now officially a KCP, a Kanban Coach Professional. You can learn more about this path by checking out the Kanban Coaching Practice at Kanban University. Learning Objectives
I took a full-week course in the summer of 2020 with David J Anderson, one of the main guys behind the Kanban movement in the knowledge work domain, on Kanban Coaching Practices. KCP course will teach coaching tools and techniques to be successful in leading significant evolutionary change initiatives with the goal of achieving higher maturity…
I took a full-week course in the summer of 2020 with David J Anderson, the guy behind the Kanban movement, on Kanban Maturity Model. I took this course as the newer version of KMM has about to come out, and I was lucky to learn that firsthand from one of the authors. Kanban Maturity Model…
I took part in a two-day course with Michele Madore on Coaching Integral Agile Transitions Class. I received ICP-CAT designation from ICAgile after the course presenting validated learning through a written test. The ICP-CAT is the second of two knowledge-based certifications on the Enterprise Coaching for Agility Track. This certification focuses on the field of…
It was a great experience and an honor to present for the audience of Toronto Agile Conference 2019. My talk was on powerful questions, a continuation of what I presented at Big Apple Scrum Day. I changed it to address the requirements of the conference, the layout of the room and based on the feedback…
As a coach, you know of some coaching techniques and tools. It’s easy to get lost in all of the toolkits you have and try to pick one up to use amongst many. That’s one of the coaching anti-patterns that I typically see; get lost in the moment, and not being your authentic self. The coach tries…
No matter how good you are (as a coach), or how much your client is capable in his or her field, make sure you are not assuming anything (or to start many important things). Always ask yourself (as a coach) what you are referring to is a fact or an assumption. If you don’t have…
I talked on one of my favorite topics, Coaching for the Torontonians in an event organized by Envision Agile. The audience was a group of Agile enthusiasts. The organizers were present at one of my prior coaching talks, reached out and asked me to give a talk at their event, and I gladly accepted it. This time, I…
I ran a coaching program at Points. This mini-coaching program, which I called it Simple Coaching Program was mainly designed for Scrum Masters. However, Scrum Master Managers, Development Leads, and Project Managers joined the program as well. The Simple Coaching Program consisted of the following topics: Coaching (Simple Coaching Model) Conflict and how we deal with…