Empathetic Coaching

by | Sep 16, 2014 | Exploration, Patterns

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Martin Burns
EMEA Director, Digital Advisory & Consulting Services at HCL Enterprise Studio
Previously: Leader of software delivery portfolios in large scale orgs.
Specialism: Transforming complex delivery organisations to be more Lean/Agile.
Mindset: Continuous Improvement Obsessive
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As a community, we claim to value people, yet our practise often conflicts with this. We need to be far better at being empathetic and showing it in our actions as well as our words. So often, people in our community – from a right and proper instinct and...

Beginners’ Patterns: Coaching with Empathy, Patience and Respect

by | Aug 29, 2014 | Learning, Patterns

Beginners’ Patterns: Coaching with Empathy, Patience and Respect
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Martin Burns
EMEA Director, Digital Advisory & Consulting Services at HCL Enterprise Studio
Previously: Leader of software delivery portfolios in large scale orgs.
Specialism: Transforming complex delivery organisations to be more Lean/Agile.
Mindset: Continuous Improvement Obsessive
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Beginners’ Patterns are generally ineffective for delivery, but excellent for learning, and building a foundation for far more effective ones. Leapfrogging the beginners’ patterns for evolved ones is rarely effective for building a sustainable capability....

Improvement Kata improved?

by | May 14, 2014 | Blog, Patterns

Emil Vikström
Emil Vikström
Agile management consultant at Avega Group
I work as advisor and coach to leaders and development teams.

My specialities are efficiency in IT, leadership, management innovation and people development
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Toyota Kata or Improvement Kata including the Coaching Kata can be said to be a method to coach people into discovering solutions for themselves rather than getting the final answer from someone else, like a manager. This way the organizational capacity for...