How can the coachee and agile coach find realistic goals for successful agile coaching?
The coachee is in a professional situation where they are seeking advice. New challenges, coupled with specific questions, are leading them to consult an Agile Coach. Typically, the coachee is well-read, has acquired extensive agile knowledge through training and further education, and has already gained concrete experience in a professional context. Experience shows that setting up ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives is quick and easy. And some successes are quickly apparent. Yet, only the ideal and tireless interplay of experimentation, feedback, and improvement by each individual, the team, and the organization brings lasting success. The coachee finds themselves confronted with diverse and complex questions and now wants to get the most out of Agile Coaching for themselves and their environment. How can this be achieved?
How can the coachee and agile coach find realistic goals for successful agile coaching?
It sounds simple: It's the one specific question about personal influence in a concrete situation in everyday work life. Nothing more and nothing less. The coach's task is to identify this right at the beginning of the coaching process and to remove any unnecessary baggage.
The advantages of starting in small steps are obvious to me: Focusing on the concrete, which can be identified and examined within a coaching session. Time remains for reflecting on the actions taken and developing new courses of action. Trying out new interventions immediately upon returning to the professional situation allows the coachee to experience immediate initial successes.
It's not as trivial as it might sound. Initial successes require hard work. The coachee already demonstrates skills such as self-reflection, expanding their scope of action, and a sense of responsibility for results. They also show the courage to try new things and an openness to innovative solutions. If this is achieved with a seemingly 'small' concrete question, it can be continuously and iteratively expanded. This gives the coachee the space and energy to venture into further topics and to grow and impact beyond their own team and into the organization as a whole. It's a solid start to a self-determined, exciting, and energetic journey toward unexpected moments of agile professional success.
What is your opinion? How can the coachee and agile coach find realistic goals for successful agile coaching?
