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Curious what you'll learn in #AINativeFoundations in-person training? Listen to feedback from an ICON Agility Services student who shares experiences and critical learning he's applying to his daily work and personal life. ICON Agility Services AI-Native Training by Scaled Agile, Inc. SAFe by Scaled Agile, Inc. 💡 😎 #innovation #management #productivity #leadership #mentalhealth #riskmanagement #success #entrepreneur #digitaltransformation #collaboration

Thank you Dilan Angunawela for your insightful thoughts on how Agile and Agile Coaching can benefit HR and many other industries beyond IT. 🌍 Your reflections beautifully captured the essence of how coaching helps leaders and teams shift from managing people to empowering potential — a mindset truly needed in today’s workplaces. We just wrapped up an energizing 3-day ICAgile Certified Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) journey — a powerful experience of learning and unlearning around the competencies and strategic role of Agile Coaches in unlocking the potential of individuals, teams, and enterprises to uncover true Business Agility. Over these three days, we explored how presence, curiosity, powerful questioning, and systems thinking can help coaches sense, respond, and adapt in complex, ever-changing environments. The conversations were deep, the energy was authentic, and the growth was mutual. #AgileCoaching #ICAgile #CoachingCulture #BusinessAgility #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamCoaching #AgileMindset #ContinuousLearning #BusinessAgilityTuneUp

Agile Coaches — The Driving Force Behind Transformation 🚀 Agile Coaches play a pivotal role in building awareness and confidence to embrace the Agile mindset and practices. They help individuals, teams, and organizations develop an Agile culture — one that enables transformation across strategy, culture, structure, and daily operations to achieve meaningful business results. Thank you, Dilan Angunawela, for sharing your insightful thoughts on how Agile and Agile Coaching can empower organizations to unlock their full potential. 🙏 #AgileCoaching #BusinessAgility #Leadership #AgileMindset #Transformation

"Two Paths. One Intention." Michelangelo was never just a painter. He sculpted David, designed St Peter’s Basilica, and painted The Last Judgement. Different disciplines. One intention — to express the depth and beauty of the human spirit. That’s the essence of our two programmes at Deeper Change Academy. Our ICE-AC (ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching) explores the breadth of disciplines — coaching, mentoring, teaching and facilitating — and how to move fluidly between them. It’s about range, adaptability and the art of human development across contexts. The Art of Professional Coaching (ICF Level 1) focuses entirely on coaching, diving deep into presence, listening, and mastery of craft. Like standing before The Last Judgement, it invites you to see both the whole composition and the intricate brushstrokes that bring it to life. Both paths share the same intention: to elevate your practice, deepen your impact and help others flourish. 👉 Watch the short video below to explore how breadth and depth can both lead to transformation.

Stefan Wolpers’ Liberating Structures shows authentic facilitation unlocking product and agile teams—practical, not corporate. I value hands-on coaching that drives faster, value-led delivery. See the original thoughts here: https://lnkd.in/dvAMHEfr #Agile #Product

🤓✨ Ever notice how the real learning happens after the doing? Tip #5 in The Quickstart Coaching Playbook is all about the replay. Pause, look back, and talk through what actually happened. What clicked. What fell flat. What surprised everyone. This is where growth takes shape - not in theory, but in reflection and adjustment. And the sooner you debrief, the more it sticks. Tip #5: Replay, Review, and Recalibrate. Because progress isn’t perfect. It’s iterative. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gYDuPzhS #PeopleFirst #ManagerTips #LeadershipInAction #CoachingCulture #Energage

🚀 Live Challenge: My #1 Management Hack for Hyperproductive Teams — Explained in UNDER 60 Seconds! If you can’t explain your most powerful management mojo in under a minute ...👉 then it’s probably not a mojo! Challenge Accepted! So here’s my SpeedHack — straight from helping 44+ companies and hundreds of teams reach hyperproductive flow. 🎥 (Watch the video first!) The idea is simple — I call it “#NoExcusesForFlow” Because responsibility for flow should sit where it belongs: inside the team. Here’s how it works 👇 1️⃣ Clean the board. Remove all tasks. Empty it. (If you don’t have a board — create one!) 2️⃣ Ask each person in the team: “What’s the most valuable task — for our customer or for improving our process?” 3️⃣ Activate only those - one task per person (or less!) Nothing else is allowed. No distractions, no excuses. 4️⃣ Wait for the first blocker. (It’ll come fast!) 5️⃣ Pull the line. Bring the team together. They have to solve the blocker in a way that improves the process. Repeat that cycle — and you’ll see: ✨ Problems vanish faster. ✨ The team gets happier. ✨ Value delivery explodes. That’s it. 58 seconds. Now it’s your turn to try it. 💬 And now… I’m curious: Do you think this wouldn’t work in your team? (Go ahead — tell me the obstacles in the comments, and I’ll reply to every one.) If you want to go deeper into “SpeedHacks” like this, join our free community: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDVM_zwR and check the “Boost my Team” section. And now tell my "WHY IS IT NOT WORKING?!" #Leadership #Management #TeamFlow #Agile #ScrumMaster #Coaching #ContinuousImprovement

Is systems theory a core competency of a product person? Why I think Agile coaching should be invisible 🙈(this might be a hot take), and can bias for action be an org dysfunction?

Executing, Exploring, and Learning in Rapid Cycles #TeamBayer fosters a culture of continuous learning and improvement, where a mindset of discovery and experimentation is encouraged. This coaching behavior empowers teams to act quickly, build the capabilities needed to achieve their mission, and share results and learnings to enhance decision-making. Check out these practical tips to help teams learn and evolve continuously!

From the coaching toolkit: A Coaching Move That Keeps Teams Flowing One of the most powerful things we can do as coaches is help teams keep moving, even when conditions are less than ideal. In the Lean-Education Agile Foundry Laboratory, we often work with students who are waiting on feedback, clarity, or approval. And sometimes, that wait becomes a bottleneck. So we coach them to move forward anyway. Not recklessly. Not blindly. But with enough confidence to say: “This is good enough to build the next thing.” This mindset of "progress over perfection" is a core part of the L-EAF.org, LLC framework. It teaches students to trust their instincts, iterate in public, and learn through doing. Here’s a simple 3-step experiments you can run with your own team or students in your classroom to model this behavior: 3-Step Practice: Keep the Flow Moving 1. Surface the Blocker Ask the team: “What are you waiting on right now?” Have them name the feedback, approval, or condition that’s holding them back. 2. Reframe the Risk Ask: “If you moved forward without that input, what’s the worst that could happen?” Then: “What’s the best that could happen?” This helps them assess the real stakes, and often, the risk is smaller than they think. 3. Coach the Next Move Say: “Let’s assume it’s good enough for now. What’s the next thing you can build, test, or share?” Then let them move. You can always circle back for refinement later. This technique builds confidence, momentum, and resilience. It also teaches students that waiting isn’t always wise and that learning happens in motion. If you try this out, I’d love to hear how it goes. Drop a comment or DM me with your outcomes, or better yet, share a post and tag me. Let’s keep flowing. #LEAForg #CoachingMoves #AgileLearning #ProgressOverPerfection #StudentLed #EarlyTalent #LearningFLOW #SystemsThinking