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Chief Editor of The Outsourcing Journal interviews two tech entrepreneurs about how to build and manage effectively remote Agile software development teams. 

Intersog Podcast #2: How To Staff and Manage Effectively Your External Agile Team

In this podcast Dr John McGurk, CIPD Adviser on Learning, and Talent Development, Peter Butler, Director of Learning at BT, Nicky Taylor, Learning and Development at Ginsters and Alan Fletcher, Business Development Manager for KMI, discuss the latest trends in learning and development.

Podcast 42: Pushing the boundaries of learning and development

Is learning and development mostly about science or is it more of a strategic business discipline? Three experts with differing perspectives discuss:  Dr Itiel Dror, Principal Consultant, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bill Parsons, VP for HR at ARM Holdings UK, and Vice President L & D at the CIPD and Martyn Sloman , L&TD academic, consultant and practitioner 

Podcast 66: Learning and development: Science or strategic business disciline

Recent research shows that just 7% of L&D professionals evaluate the impact of learning initiatives on the wider business but in these uncertain and evolving times it’s essential that L&D becomes all about alignment; with both business aims and with evolving ways of learning.

But what does alignment actually look like? In this podcast we speak to three experts to gain their insight. Laura Overton, founder of Towards Maturity, discusses what is holding alignment up and what L&D should really be measuring to assess value, while Julian Stodd, Founder and Captain at SeaSalt Learning describes the new world of learning, of social and community, and why L&D need to act as agile facilitators not controllers of learning. Andrew Jacobs, Talent Management and Organisational Development Manager at London Borough of Lewisham, agrees with the importance of embracing new ways of learning but stresses the need to challenge the use of certain methods and technology to ensure it’s what is needed for the business. Andrew also discusses his experience of stripping back his L&D offering to truly align with what people want and what they’re already using.

Do you feel that more needs to be done to align L&D with business objectives in your organisation? How are you embracing evolving learning methods? Join in the discussion on Twitter @CIPD using the hashtag #cipdpodcasts. 


Podcast 103: Aligning L&D With Business Objectives and emerging practices

Agile in Wonderland: Designing for an agile client with an offsite UX team

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest and leading organizational coach Bob Costello—a Senior Agile Coach with the Eliassen Group—for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Bob offers over 20 years experience in the software industry and has held leadership positions in both software startups and large organizations. He has a background in software development, product management, and engineering. For the last 8 years Bob has been helping organizations, both at the team and leadership levels, to make the transition to agile. Bob excels at helping organizations achieve both their business and organizational goals of an agile change program, with leadership coaching, team coaching and change management. He has a rich background of experience with IBM Design Studio, BlueCollar Objects, Akkolade Consulting, Valtech, ACS, CGI-AMS, BEA Systems, Deloitte, Next Software and more.

In this episode Bob shares his journey over the last 20 years rising up through the ranks in the software development industry to becoming an agile leadership and team coach. Themes covered in the podcast include: working at NEXT Software with Steve Jobs; The Agile Manifesto; the changing operating context that catalyzed the agile movement; agile principles and practices; coaching agile mindsets vs. process; “being” vs. “doing” agile; using situational leadership for coaching agile leaders and teams; shared leadership in agile teams; the 4 SCRUM ceremonies; managing your role as an agile team coach; team maturity and development; agile teams as learning teams and more. Bob also shares some great stories coaching agile teams as well as recommendations on books and team coach training programs that focus on agile.

All team coaches including both generalist practitioners as well as specialists in coaching agile teams will find Bob’s insights and lessons learned well worth the listen. This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

053: Bob Costello: Coaching Agile Teams: From Being a Group to Becoming an Agile Team

In this episode we hear from Andy Lancaster, Head of L&D Content, CIPD and Nicola Josephs, Senior Executive Advisor, CEB on the challenges and opportunities facing L&D professionals now, and in the future. We also chat with Derek Bruce, Head of International Development, ABN AMRO and Alexandra Bode-Tunji, Programme Lead - Skills and Capabilities, TFL about how their organisations are preparing their employees for the future.

Podcast 117: Future L&D

The Refined Consultant Ep. 11 - Maturing Agile At The Team Level Podcast

An excellent indicator of a good Agile team is their High Performance.  This is very closely linked to the Happiness levels in the Team.  So what makes a Happy Agile team?

The Happy Agilist Podcast

What makes a happy agile team?

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Part 2 Helping Housing Associations www.Gabriel-Star.co.uk

Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Part 2 by Patrick Lencioni www.Gabriel-Star.co.uk

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Part 4 www.Gabriel-Star.co.uk Helping Housing Associations since 2011

What can sailing on a tall ship teach us about increasing our leadership agility and building high performing teams? How can we as coaches and team coaches challenge both ourselves as well as our clients to bring more wholeness and purpose into modern organizations? Would reconnecting more closely with nature reinvigorate individual, team and organizational learning and performance and take us to new levels? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast to explore these and other compelling questions.

In this episode, host Dr. Krister Lowe is joined by two colleagues and friends Eric Kohner--a master coach, a senior faculty member at the Coaches Training Institute and a pioneer in coach training and leadership development--and Pim Harder--an individual, team and systems coach who has been a pioneer in bringing coaching to the education and law enforcement sectors in the Netherlands.

On the show Eric, Pim and Krister share stories, insights and lessons learned from The Nautilus Experience--a recent leadership and team coach training program that they facilitated on the Wylde Swan tall ship as part of the England to Portugal leg of the 2017 Transatlantic Tall Ships Race and Regatta. Themes explored in the episode include: 1) Eric, Pim and Krister's 1-year journey in becoming a team and conceiving and delivering The Nautilus Program; 2) challenging the leadership and team coaching industry to engage the full human being through the 5 Knowledge Center framework including the Head (Reason), Heart (Emotion), Gut (Intuition), Groin (Passion), and Hands (Action); 3) the role of Nature as a 6th and unifying Knowledge Center; 3) stories of delivering the program on the Wylde Swan tall ship over the course of 2 weeks; 4) the story of how the program became called "The Nautilus Experience"; 5) insights about going through the stages of Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing as both a facilitation team as well as a learning community; and more. The Guys share more about the future of The Nautilus Experience as well as resources where listeners can learn more: www.TeamCoachingZone.com/Nautilus

Tune in and get inspired to take your team coaching practice to the next level!

Exploring the Art & Science of Team Coaching

077: The Nautilus Experience: A LeaderSHIP & Team Coaching Voyage on the High Seas

In his best-selling book, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge outlines the concept of the ‘learning organisation’. These organisations would be agile, innovative and highly competitive. They would emphasise continual learning and work from a shared vision for all employees. Senge was certainly ahead of his time and 27 years after publication, organisations are still seeking (and often struggling) to embody these ideas. 

In this episode we discuss new research from Towards Maturity into the New Learning Organisation, and we chat to learning professionals from Virgin Media, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and British Heart Foundation to find what becoming a learning organisation has meant for them and what steps they’ve taken to put learning at the heart of their business.

Podcast 126: Learning to learn - a new take on Senge's learning organisation

Living by the Laws of Creation

Could there really be a single misunderstanding of how creation works that keeps us from what we want? Dominic has been coaching for eleven years, and in this extended episode shares how he has created a very successful coaching practice, without plans or complex strategies, by simply using what appear to be the laws of creation.

Here’s a little more about Dominic:

Dominic Scaffidi’s purpose is to “awaken greatness.”  As a certified executive coach, he fulfils this purpose by partnering with individuals to point them back toward the unlimited potential and possibility of who they really are. By accessing their own innate wisdom, clients are supported to take on important professional and personal goals.  

In 2008, following a 20-year corporate career, Dominic founded HR Possibilities to provide three core services:  
1) Individual Executive Coaching for senior leaders, entrepreneurs and high performing individuals.
2) Team Coaching for senior executive teams 
3) Training for leaders and people managers to learn “how to be a Great Coach rather than a good boss.”

Dominic has worked with leading edge, global organizations across a variety of industries. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialed through the International Coach Federation and has been awarded two Prism awards for excellence in coaching within organizations. He is also grounded in the Three Principles and certified as a transformative coach through Michael Neill’s coach academy.

You can find out more about Dominic at
https://www.hrpossibilities.com
and
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominicscaffidi

The Coaching Life Podcast

067 Dominic Scaffidi - Living by the Laws of Creation

Alistair Cockburn gets us thinking about how agile methods are spreading, even to non-software teams like sales. Further, we bring in the idea of Wardley Mapping to see how, ironically, this very spread can lead to the conclusion that agile development is headed for the dustbin, but conclude (phew!) that agile methods have a healthy future.

Apologies for a minor audio problem about 12 minutes in.

SHOW LINKS:

- Alistair Cockburn says Agile isn't dead: https://heartofagile.com/agile-is-not-dead-quite-the-opposite/

- Moore, Crossing the Chasm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

- Sheridan, Joy, Inc.: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joy-Inc-Built-Workplace-People/dp/1591847125

- Wardley Maps: https://www.slideshare.net/swardley/an-introduction-to-wardley-maps

- Previous episode on Agile beyond software: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/agile-outside-software-teams

- Heresy.io: https://heresy.io/ 

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Agile is Dead, Long Live Agile

This is part of the LEAN Classics Collection… a series of monumental business books recognized as part of the vital foundation for continuous improvement. This is achieved by the elimination of waste along with improvement in quality, efficiency, safety, and creativity… creating the greatest productivity and value for businesses, workers, and ultimately the customers.

This simple manual is a shining example of LEAN management and productivity as exemplified in TPS (The Toyota Production System). The concepts from this groundbreaking manual helped put Toyota on the international map by building a new and improved reputation for efficiency, quality, and integrity. These concepts can be applied to nearly all forms of business, production, and management.

1973 - Toyota Production System - Handbook

I’m very excited to be joined in this episode on The Team Coaching Zone by Andres Roberts, the founder of the Bio-Leadership Project and co-founder of Way of Nature. Andres’ TEDx talk How Would Nature Change Leadership? – quickly made its way onto the global TED platform within weeks of giving the talk. Andres is on a mission to reinvent leadership to be more like nature. He believes we are at ‘sliding doors’ moment in time, in which humanity has the challenge and the opportunity to rewrite the rules of collective progress in history. He argues rather than battling with the old operating systems, making nature our guide might be the most important innovation of our times. Andres left the world of big organisations early on in his career. He has worked and learnt with elders and teachers from around the world, as well as first class partners in organisational learning and development. Andres works with institutions such as Patagonia, the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Amani Institute.

In episode #124 I begin by asking Andres to share his earliest memories of being in nature. We also venture into:
*What inspired Andres to make leadership and nature his life’s work
*The Bio-Leadership project as a global movement for change
*Three threads woven into the Bio-Leadership philosophy
*How some companies are applying the model to reinvent their future
*How it could inform Team Coaches grappling with a transformation agenda

From Team Coach to Changemaker

124: Andres Roberts: What Can Nature Teach Us About Coaching Teams?

In Episode #125 of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast I’m joined by a dynamic duo team – Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour, co-authors of Building Top Performing Teams A practical guide to team coaching to improve collaboration and drive organizational success (Kogan Page).
Lucy is Director of Performance Edge and a board member of the UK International Coaching Federation. During her 30 year corporate career Lucy worked at board level and as an HR Director in retail and airlines and led award-winning teams. Paul combines a global client base with practitioner research in human collaboration, team coaching and conflict resolution. His interest in the psychology of teams began during a successful 20-year career as a senior leader in Kerry Group PLC, one of the world’s largest food and ingredients businesses. Both Lucy and Paul are lead tutors on Team Coaching at Henley Business School.
In this episode we focus on ways of being as a Team Coach including:
– a framework to explore your Being as a Team Coach
– the importance of contracting as a means to unleashing creativity
– tools to bring out the collective wisdom of teams
– how to get beyond your own story and self-limiting mindset
– discovering your signature as a Team Coach
Find out more on Lucy and Paul here:
Lucy linkedin.com/in/lucywiddowson
Paul linkedin.com/in/pauljbarbour
Find Building Top Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organizational Success (Kogan Page, January 2021). on Amazon, Google Books and Apple Books.

125: Lucy Widdowson and Paul J. Barbour: Building Top Performing Teams

I am delighted to share this latest Episode #127 of the Team Coaching Zone in which I interview Linda Berlot, CEO of Berlot Group in Dubai. In this episode we explore what is it like coaching C-Suite leaders as a team? What golden nuggets would you want to have as a team coach walking into this arena for the first time? Especially coaching a multicultural leadership team?

Linda and her colleagues at Berlot Group provide professional and expert team coaching solutions to C-Suite leadership teams across the Middle East, and Internationally. Linda is also a CRRGlobal partner - and owner of the ACTP coach training school licensed to deliver ICF accredited ORSC Coaching core curriculum programs in the region.

Other aspects of team coaching we explore are:
- Coaching a leadership team as a system
- Helping leaders become more Relationship Systems intelligent
- Linda's litmus test for coaching with a worldview

You can reach Linda Berlot here:
www.berlotgroup.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-berlot-pcc-orscc-1aaa387/

127: Linda Berlot: Coaching Across Cultures in the C-Suite

Krister Lowe, PhD is an Organizational Psychologist, a Leadership and Team Coach, and the Host of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Lowe is a specialist in team coaching, conflict resolution and performance management and has more than fifteen years of experience consulting to diverse organizations in more than 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. His coaching, consulting, facilitation and training interventions have reached more than 20,000 people globally. He has expertise in a number of sectors including: international organizations, professional services, financial services, foundations, pharmaceuticals and education. Krister holds both a Master of Arts Degree and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. He has completed a number of additional training and certification programs including the Coaches Training Institute Coach Training Program; the Team Advantage Team Coach Training Program; the Certificate in Conflict Resolution from the ICCCR at Columbia University; New York State Mediation Certification; NBI Thinking Preferences Certification; and the LeaderNation 360 Feedback Certification.