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Coaching World
Kathy Harman, MCC
Kathy offers a collaborative
approach to the corporate
world by coaching teams
and individuals to thrive. She
blended her Leadership Coach
training with her information
technology career experience
to develop the PRISM Team
approach to coach both
technical and business teams to
discover their own unique path
to high-performance. A Certified
Scrum Master and Certified
Coach Mentor, she is the author
of PRISM Teams: Coaching
Prolific, Radically Innovative
Self-Managed Teams
(lulu.com, 2012), and The ABCs
of Living Well (self-published,
2010). Kathy offers online
training in THE PRISM Team
Approach and Agile
for Coaches.
Agile Coaching
Are you a team coach looking to grow your business and add new skills to
your toolbox? Consider making your practice more nimble by exploring
Agile methodology.
Agile is a project management framework based on using small, efficient, self-managed
teams to deliver project results in a flexible and efficient manner. It originally arose as
a way to streamline software development, although non-technical organizations are
starting to adopt the framework. Agile organically developed two “team coaching” roles:
scrum master (the team coach) and Agile coach (implementer and coach for scrum
masters). Since Agile demands more self-direction and leadership from team members,
organizations need strong, experienced team coaches to step into these roles.
Few professional team coaches have heard of Agile and the Agile world is, for the most
part, ignorant of the coaching profession. A couple of innovative Agile trainers educate
technical Agile coaches and scrum masters s on how to coach teams. At the same
time, many experienced team coaches search for a way to build a sustainable coaching
business. It’s time for the two worlds to come together.