The ScrumMaster is responsible for coaching their team and the surrounding organization. Unfortunately, professional coaching is typically taught in the context of one-on-one conversations. This leaves the ScrumMaster ill-equipped to serve their team from a coaching stance. Without a solid approach for coaching teams, it’s all too easy for a ScrumMaster to slip from coaching into consulting - and start telling people what to do. Understanding how to take a coaching stance in group settings will grow your ability as a ScrumMaster to foster continuous improvement in your team - taking your ScrumMastering from good to great.

So how does one effectively engage groups from a coaching stance? In this workshop, you will practice coaching techniques that can be used with groups of any size. You’ll leave with a few simple tips on how to leverage any coaching model you are already familiar with when coaching large groups and the confidence to catalyze lasting change in your organization.

Get ready to level-up your coaching with a new superpower!

All ScrumMasters yearn for their teams to become more effective agilists. It’s common for this yearning to turn into frustration when working with people who just don't get it. Before we know it, we’re speaking disparagingly about who we’re there to help - throwing our hands in the air, giving up and being unhappy in our roles as ScrumMaster.

News flash! ScrumMasters will, by definition, ALWAYS be in situations where the people around them haven’t mastered Scrum. When that stops being true, you’ll just be moved to another team that does need your help.

Come to this session if you want to learn how to enjoy every day of your amazing journey, develop compassion for your team, link the work you’re doing now back to your life’s purpose and rediscover that spark for your role as an agile change agent.

Let me guess - you’re in an agile coaching engagement right now with no clear agenda or timeline for the coaching. You hang out at the back of team meetings and try to add value by interrupting with powerful questions. There's no apparent rhyme or reason to your interventions and the team is making little progress. You’re kind of just...there. After a while, no one really knows why, and everyone, including yourself, wonders when you’ll leave.

Sound familiar? Don’t worry! This unfortunate occurrence is extremely common for new and experienced agile coaches alike. In this session, you will learn to identify your current coaching approach and how to use systems entry to break out of unhelpful patterns once and for all.