The Importance of Playfulness in Coaching New Teams

🎙️ 🚀 Exciting news! Our latest episode of The Delivery Space Podcast has landed, featuring an insightful conversation with Paddy Corry, a seasoned Agile Coach at ESW (eShopWorld), a rapidly expanding e-commerce business.🔑 In this episode, we explore meta-skills - the philosophy, attitude, and principles Agile Coaches operate from, shaping how they interact with their clients.This episode is brimming with insights on:📌 How Agile coaches can discern which meta-skill is needed for coaching situations 3:03📌 The Coaching Agreement and other tools that Agile coaches can use to frame the coaching conversation with teams and with leadership 8:46📌 Why Agile coaches need to be aware of their inner state, the energy that they are taking into coaching conversations and the impact of this on coaching conversations 20:32📌 The importance of reflection and feedback to evaluate how we show up as coaches 22:42📌 How to adopt the coaching stance of a disruptor, when we know it is needed but may not be received well 26:31📌 The range of stances we are comfortable adopting and recognising where we need further development 36:44Paddy's journey spans 20 years in software development, from developer to Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Currently, he's expanding his knowledge, pursuing Scrum Alliance Certified Team Coach certification, and the ICF's ACC certification. Paddy also writes for Serious Scrum on Medium.com. If you want to benefit from practitioners sharing their direct experiences on practice of Scrum and brining agility to organisations, check out Serious Scrum, it’s an invaluable resource.🚀 Working with the Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence team at ESW, Paddy is at the heart of a rapidly growing e-commerce business, guiding it to adapt and evolve through agile approaches.👥 Join us in this enlightening conversation and enrich your Agile Coaching journey! Follow Paddy here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddycorry/Follow Nisha here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/Follow Sharon here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/