Reflections

For the first twelve years of my professional career I knew how to call myself — a business intelligence specialist, a web developer, a mobile UX designer, a project manager. Or, better, I thought I knew who I was. I’ve been the guy who said “that’s not my job” when anything I thought didn’t fit my job description at the time came up. During these past five years as a consultant, thought it has become increasingly harder to say “that’s not my job”, and, also, it has been close to impossibile to pinpoint what my job title could be. ...

Since I started practicing team coaching five years ago, I got in touch with the coaching community at large, only to discover that, historically, most coaching is done in individual, 1:1 settings. Approaching companies and teams systemically like a got used to represents just a specific niche of coaching, of which Agile coaching is an even tinier niche. Since a lot of coaching models are then based on personal, individual change and since I’m always looking for ways of scaling down change, I just did an exercise in understanding how many levels of change should we take into account — only to realize how many of them gets ignored! ...