How do you approach first contact with a team you are about to coach? This is the question I will be posing in this interactive workshop session.

Through role play and discussion we’ll cover the typical responses you might encounter, including apprehension and fear, curiosity and even bravado.

You don’t have to be a coach to attend this session. It’s for anyone interested in how to succeed in first contact with a new team.

We’ll cover top tips for starting out right, and setting a path for a successful support role.

As Agile Practitioners we use experiments and retrospectives to gain insight into new and better ways of doing things. Change is at the heart of how we work, but how equipped are we to implement change?

The Change Management world is just beginning to recognise how useful Agile can be in supporting change. It’s time we in the Agile world looked to how Change Management can support us embed new ways of working.

Change resistance is one of the most difficult things we encounter. Rossabeth Moss Kantor, a change guru and Professor at Harvard Business School explains that “resistance to change manifests itself in many ways, from foot-dragging and inertia to petty sabotage to outright rebellions”.

In a world where the change that accompanies innovation is inevitable, overcoming resistance to change becomes imperative. Agile provides us with an approach to change that supports the way we need to work in the future.

Come along to this talk to:

• Understand why people resist change
• Learn how to use Agile techniques to overcome change resistance
• Increase your confidence in managing change associated with Agile ways of working