Executive Coaching: How To Do It

Vision:

• Grow Leadership to have the confidence and trust to empower their organisation and achieved their potential.
• Understanding why/how agile exec coaching is different. How to do it effectively.

What is It

The “how-to” guide is a list of short conversations to have with Directors (Derek is director level persona) to help shift their values and influence other areas of the organization

What are our pre-requisites?

When giving advise to anyone, it helps to Gain Trust

This can be done, especially with executives, through Building a relationship, Showing credibility and providing results.

 

 

We then defined the problem as an Epic:

“As an Agile Coach, I want to know how to approach and do Executive Coaching, so I can better serve the organization.”

To give some context behind it:

We created some proto-personas, and focused our work on how to influence Derek the Director.

How to Use It

We created the following list of Hot-Topics with which we could be in conversation with our director. Each topic was atempted to be broken down into:

1. an Opening Question,
2. an Elevator pitch,
3. key metrics or case studies,
4. sound bites.

The Topics are:

• Better ROI
• How do I Beat the Competition?
• How do I De-Risk my deliveries?
• How do I improve Transparency?
• How to Deliver The Right Thing
• Highlight Inefficiencies
• Alignment
• I am Wonderful
• Incremental Funding
• Increase Trust
• How do I Delight Customers

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How we did it

Team forming and Vision creation.

The process we followed:

 

The Team

Name	Email	Twitter @
Terri Ruggieri	Terri.Ruggieri@gmail.com	Terri0507
Don Ewart	Don.Ewart@capgemini.com	—
Adrian Perreau de Pinninck	Adrian.Perreau@agilar.org	eidrien
Premkumar L.	Premkumar.l@gmail.com	PremkumarL
Silvana Wasitova	wasitova@yahoo.com	wasitova
Malcolm Lisle	MalcolmLisle2007@btinternet.com	—
Zia Malik	Zia.malik@dmzen.co.uk	Zm9
Sophie Manton	Sophie.Manton2@azula.co.uk	sophiemanton
Dinesh Sharma	Dino.sharma@gmail.com	AgileGurukul
Tony Ackyord	Anthony.t.ackyord@aexp.com
Phil Poole	Phil.Poole@itv.com	ILoveNiceThings
Kai Simons	info@ksimons.de	LetsGetAgile
Maureen Manonren	Manonnen@gmail.com	Manonnen
Mat Roadnight	Matt.roadnight@sprintagile.com	—
Glenn Smith	glenn@tootech.co.uk	gupster
Eben Halford	eben@agileista.com	ebstar
Praveen karadiguddi	Praveen.nk@gmail.com	Praveen_nk
Dragan Jojic	Dragan@Capagility.com	DRJojic
Geoff Ainsworth	Geoff.ainsworth@opengi.co.uk
David Collins	David.collins@opengi.co.uk	d2ve_c

How we got started: