The Artistry of Coaching Up

🎙 Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches - are you wanting to build impactful relationships with senior executives that you’re coaching ?Our latest episode of The Delivery Space podcast is a prime opportunity to pick up some super useful coaching tips!Sharon Williams and I had a delightful chat with Bob Galen 🇺🇦, Author of Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond, to discuss:⭐️The Artistry of Coaching Up⭐️Bob is an Agile leader, coach, author, speaker, and community builder.He has a knack for turning around struggling organisations, teams, and products in a sustainable and productive way. Bob is also a proven team builder and a servant-leader.For ~20 years, he’s been focused on leveraging agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. While not being a silver bullet, these methods simply work better than anything he’s tried.Bob is also a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) providing agile team coaching & training with a focus on Scrum+XP, Lean and Kanban practices.Our conversation included:🎯 Tips for building relationships with the exec so you can appreciate their vision, challenges and the organisation through their eyes. (09:42)🎯For those Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters who don’t necessarily have a management background, what steps they can take to advise senior executives when coaching up.(12:42)🎯 The push and pull elements of the coaching relationship (17:45)🎯 How reframing resistance allows Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to build rapport, and a mutual understanding, so they can help organisations solve complex problems for customers and end users. (28:28)🎯 The importance of self-care for Agile coaches and Scrum Masters (35:22)Leave us a review and make our day !