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No Powerful Questions
Coaching

There Is No Spoon. There Are No Powerful Questions.

Asking powerful questions is more of a buzzword than a real skill agile and professional coaches use these days. In this video Alex Kudinov, PCC is digging into the source of the power behind questions a coach might ask and uncovers what is really going on.

Direct Communication in Coaching Sessions
Coaching

Direct Communication in Coaching

Many think that coaching is all about asking powerful questions. That is an incorrect assumption. Coach there to help the client in whichever way available to gain new awareness. Direct communication is the key.

Transformational Coaching Questions: Journey of personal growth and transformation
Coaching

Transformational Coaching Skills: Powerful Coaching Questions to Ask Clients

In transformational coaching, questions are powerful tools that unlock potential and guide clients toward self-discovery and achieving goals. By asking “What do you want your life to look like?” coaches help clients envision and create a future aligned with their deepest desires, ensuring the journey is as transformative as the destination.

Signal to noise ratio
Agile

Signal to Noise Ratio / Bottom Lining

A Few weeks ago while attending a Coaching Agile Teams class I heard one of the instructors (Lyssa Adkins) make a reference in passing to “signal to noise” ratio in reference to our ability to communicate with others.  Her comment intrigued me because I’d never heard that phrase before, so I started to do some investigation.

Signal-to-noise ratio (abbreviated SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.

Signal-to-noise ratio is sometimes used informally to refer to the ratio of useful  information to false or irrelevant information in a conversation or exchange. For example, in online communities, off-topic posts and spam are regarded as “noise” that interferes with the “signal” of appropriate discussion.

Helping people GROW
Coaching

Performance Coaching – Helping People GROW

As an agile coach I get the opportunity to have mentoring and coaching sessions with scrum masters who are in a rut.  They usually have tons of potential but don’t know how to take the next step forward.

In order to facilitate these conversations, I use the popular coaching model GROW.

G – Gather Data

R – Reality Check

O – Obstacles and Opportunities

W – Way Forward

Throughout the conversation I shift from a position of mentor to a position of coach in order to help the scrum master gain perspectives, come to conclusions, and create a plan to move forward.

Permission to Fail
Agile

Failure Must be an Option

I have heard people say all my life, “Failure is not an option,” and today, I would like to challenge this belief and say that in order to succeed, failure must be an option.

One of the things you learn when training to be a coach is the art of deep listening.  When practicing this art with a team, the coach is listening to people and hearing what they are saying.  You also listen to things like tone of voice because much information can be heard in what is not said.  Changes in tone, pace and volume when they speak and the inflection in their voice can give clues to what the speaker is thinking and feeling.

The coach is listening for things like passion and energy when people speak, they are listening for things that reveal the teams core values, strengths and areas of weakness or greatness where probing questions can begin to push them to new levels or wider areas of thinking.