Introduction & check-in In this session we dive deeper into the 7 types of Agile Coaches. You will learn how to recognize them immediately, value the differences and get a better understanding of their drivers, powers and pitfalls. It’s fun to plot yourself, but also very useful when you are going to form an Agile Coach team or want to make your Agile Coach team more effective. With the 7 types of Agile Coaches in your backpack you facilitate your team to “practice what they preach”, improve the team dynamics, become a High-Performing Coach team and deliver more value to the organization.

The 7 types of Agile coaches – An introduction in the 7 different types. – How can you recognize them? What are their personal interests, style, powers, pitfalls?

Exercise 1: Role playing with the 7 types (groups of 5) – Each table get a deck of cards with the 7 types of Agile Coaches – Each group member select a card from the same deck and play that role. Maximum diversity! – As a group solve a case, every member plays his role, how to get agreement? fun!

Forming an agile coach teams – Explains Agile Coach teams and team dynamics, team stages tuckman. – Give some examples from effective and non-effective teams from your own practice.

Excercise 2: Form an Agile Coach team (groups of 5) – Each table get 5 decks of cards, for each group member a deck – Each group member draws blindly a card from the set from the person right to her and put it in front of you so everyone can see the type. – Assignment is to form a team of 5 coaches with the types you just selected. – Discuss: Which challenges do you see? What kind of storming examples do you expect? – What actions do you want to take to let the team grow fast from storming to norming?

Learn from each other – Present the results to the other groups

Wrap-up: – What have you learned? Feedback? – Take away: 7 types of Agile Coach card-deck.