Lean-Agile Straight Talk

Bringing Your Internal Coaching to the Next Level

10.18.2016 - By Jim TrottPlay

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Bringing Your Internal Coaching to the Next Level Steve Thomas and Jim Trott talk about internal coaching in Lean-Agile transformations: why coaches are needed, what is involved, the difference between internal and external coaches, who makes good coaches, can manager make good coaches, how to develop internal coaches, coaching as a career, and metrics to use. This topic had a lot of interest and we could only cover some of the many questions we received. For more information, go to www.NetObjectives.com and search for "coaching academy" or use the forums on portal.netobjectives.com to ask questions.  Note, you will have to register on the portal to do so. Music used in this podcast: “And So It Begins” and “Easy Lemon” by Kevin MacLeod © Incompetech Inc. Blog Type: Podcast   Transcript Introduction Steve Thomas and Jim Trott talk about internal coaching in Lean-Agile transformations. View Full Transcript Jim Trott: It's October 18th, 2016, this show Bringing Your Internal Coaching to the Next Level. [background music] Jim: Hello and welcome to another edition of "Lean Agile Straight Talk," a regular podcast series from Net Objectives. I'm your host, Jim Trott. In this show Steve Thomas discusses what is involved in bringing internal coaching in a lean agile transformation up to the next level. Why coaches are needed? What's involved? The difference between internal and external coaches? Who makes good coaches? What's involved in developing internal coaches using matrics and so on? We had lots of questions from the audience, so clearly this is a topic of interest to many people who are engaged in a lean agile transformation. We need to visit this topic again. Before we get started, I want to remind you that you can explore more about this topic by jumping over to the resources section of www.netobjectives.com. I suggest you search for Coaching Academy. There's a lot of good resources on there about this topic area. At Net Objectives, we're committed to discovering effective software development methods so that we can assist organizations in becoming more successful. We combine our experience to continuously extend the capability of what is possible in creating effective software development organizations. We provide these approaches to our clients and the community in general so that we can assist people in achieving their goals in making their organizations more successful. We'd welcome the chance to work with you. We're always learning and invite you to join in. Visit us at www.netobjectives.com. Please subscribe to the Lean Agile Straight Talk Podcast on iTunes and rate the show. That really helps. Let's keep the conversation going. Today's presenter is Steve Thomas. Steve is a certified Scrum Master and product owner, and an Agile and Lean coach. He is an experienced facilitator of Agile transformations in large organizations and in all phases of the software development life cycle. In addition, he has been a CMMI authorized instructor. One of Steve's passions is to work with cross functional teams, managers and organizations to establish work environments where collaboration blossoms, and productivity and results sharply rise. He brings systems thinking, Lean and Agile principles in a pragmatic outlook to this work. The general topic today is on bringing your internal coaching to the next level. Let me set the stage. Almost all medium to large size organizations that are trying to make a Lean or Agile transformation must develop an internal coaching capability. Relying on external coaches is just too expensive and it's not tuned enough to the needs of the organization. Organizations have a clear need to leverage some of their internal talent and people to coach the organization through the transition and into the next stage of transformation. In most transformation journeys, we're going to start with bringing in some trainers or coaches to help the organization understand the basics. Once the transformation journey's

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