How to Help Create Success for All Stakeholders
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A value coach is a person who understands how to help teams and organizations improve with the theories of Flow, Lean, and the Theory of Constraints while also understanding the basics of human learning and interaction. Coaches need to play an active role in helping teams improve. ‘Active,’ doesn’t mean they tell people what to do, which is not effective. This is not because people may resist when told to do something. Sometimes people want to be told what to do. But if you tell people what to do, they may do it without working through the details of what is involved. If they run into problems, they may not know what to do. This lack of understanding may have them abandon the suggestion. This creates the mantra of a coach as a guide.
This book The Amplio Learning Kata, is not about Amplio. It’s about being a coach who uses the ‘physics of flow’ to coach from. It provides many of the concepts the author, Al Shalloway, has learned as an experienced team and organization coach and consultant over the last 20+ years. It will jumpstart any coach to be better regardless of the Agile approach they are taking.
The book has the following sections:
- The disciplined way to talk to people
- Useful concepts for a professional coach to know
- Coaching for improvement
- Consultants corner
- Advice on solving common challenges with Scrum
Much of this book comprises Amplio University’s Coaching, Consulting, and Training Curriculum.
Introduction and Organization of the Book
What is an effective coach
Guidebook 1: Coaching Craftsmanship
Introduction
Section 1. Core concepts of Flow, Lean, and the theory of constraints.
Amplio Foundations – Standing on the shoulders of Giants
Section 3: The Way of Being
Runways and relationships
Be prepared for identities to surface
An observation about psychological safety
You are walking into past conversations
People don’t listen to you, they listen to their listening
Listing without filters
Blind spots
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Don’t conflate ideas