The relationship between a coach and manager is crucial to building effective teams. Managers often don’t have the slack or flexibility to help their teams reach high performance while coaches often lack context of the challenges that teams and leaders face on a day-to-day basis.
About Martin Cronjé:
Martin is a Software Development Manager at MYOB, New Zealand with more than 17 years’ experience in the IT industry. He's passionate about working with teams to create beautiful, well-crafted software.
He previously worked in South Africa as the co-founder of nReality Systems, a software engineering consultancy firm where they coached teams ranging from hi-tech startups to large-scale enterprise IT.
He has a long career as developer and lead on projects ranging from mobile, data analytics to high-volume, mission-critical systems in government and financial sectors. The most notable projects directly affected the South African economy and democracy.
Icebreaker
Pace Many if not most teams are face challenges on their journey towards improving the way the build software.
Pace Often this is caused by leaders (coaches and manager) not having support they need to create and environment in which teams can flourish.
Pace I am sure that you would agree that help leader achieve this is critical.
Lead Today I will share practical tips on how coaches and managers alike can improve the environments in which they operation
Reduce Friction
Maintain The good that you already have
Improve Continuous improvement
POO many say “jeez” what does he know, going into management he lost touch with coaching.
And actually, I see coaching and enabling my teams as the primary means of leading teams
Because I’ve seen how effective this could be in my 7 years of coaching before making the transition to management and this gives me a unique perspective
Coach at nReality
Development Manager at MYOB
Leaders irrespective if it is a coach or manager….
This is about how people work together to create awesome teams…
The coaching relationship!
So who are you?
So who are you?
So who are you?
So who are you?
> Systems: Interactions of people
> Feedback: Objectivity and Idealism
> Change: Quietly laying foundations
> People: Belonging
> Coaching beyond the team (Esther Derby / Donald Gray)
> The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Patrick Lencioni)
> Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams & Projects (Ainsley Nies / Diana Larsen)
Agile Methodologists are really about "mushy" stuff—about delivering good products to customers by operating in an environment that does more than talk about "people as our most important asset" but actually "acts" as if people were the most important, and lose the word "asset". So in the final analysis, the meteoric rise of interest in—and sometimes tremendous criticism of—Agile Methodologies is about the mushy stuff of values and culture.