Personal Thoughts
Robert Galen
We've Moved
We've Moved
Walking Their Talk, Sustainability, Inspiration
Robert Galen
Sustainability

I saw this wonderfully courageous and informative post by Sabine Canditt the other day where she wrote about Sustainable Scrum. 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sustainable-scrum-responsible-choice-sabine-canditt-x0gef

After just completing a The Week program facilitated by the amazing Ann-Marie Kong, it touched my heart.

That said, I wanted to highlight one comment reaction/interaction between Sabine and Erich Bühler 

Erich said—

Thank you for bringing this approach into the world! Scrum does provide an iterative approach for teams to create value, but its scope is limited to the product level and struggles with dynamics across the whole organization for several reasons.
Without updating the underlying business and financial model at a strategic level, Scrum alone cannot transform organization-wide sustainability.

Sustainability
Short-takes, Inspiration
Robert Galen
Sandy’s Take
Sandy’s Take
Short-takes, Personal Thoughts
Robert Galen
The Human Aspects of Agile Coaching
The Human Aspects of Agile Coaching
Coaching, ACGW, Personal Thoughts
Robert Galen
Keys to Building your Coaching Relationships

I talk a lot about the first step in coaching any client (individual, system, team, etc.) is to build a relationship, gain empathy and understanding, and then gain an idea of where/how to help initially. So, do NOT start to coach until you’ve done some relationship-building. 

But what does a coaching relationship, or a professional relationship in general, look like? What are aspects of that? Here are a few things that come to my mind—

  • Making + taking the time.

  • Explaining what you do—what is Agile Coaching.

  • Building some empathy; walking in their shoes; understanding where they are coming from.

  • Meeting them where they are.

  • Listening; reflective listening; building metaphors together.

  • Connecting with their language, not yours.

Keys to Building your Coaching Relationships

Personal Priorities

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Spending Your Own Life’s Energy

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Oluf Nissen posted the following on LinkedIn:

I think I've figured out why I have a certain distaste for both consulting companies and American-style capitalism. Both are essentially about not spending your own life energy to get a "return", but benefiting from others' life energy being spent continuously for your "return" or reusing life energy spent by someone else in the past. It's sort of the ultimate inequity. And both are essentially lazy. And don't get me wrong, I love lazy. Just not this kind. Expressing this distaste has limited my career options in the past. So, this is quite risky for me to put out there. 

And I thought I’d share it as a thought experiment for everyone.

I’ve been mulling it over ever since I read the post. It’s made me think of:

  • Where am I spending my life’s energy?

  • Am I getting the returns I expected from those investments?

  • Am I using/reusing others’ life energy without care, awareness, intention, or appreciation?

  • Do I need to increase, decrease, or renew any of the above?

I think these thoughts align with a post I did a while back about bullets. You might want to read that one as well.

Wrapping Up

Where are you spending your life’s energy and are you being lazy with others’ energy?

Stay agile (and energetic) my friends,

Bob.