z Agile Coach’s Toolkit

My goal has always been to contribute to meaningful coaching conversations, and this toolkit is a collection of my favorite tools for kickstarting those dialogues.

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Agile Coaching Competency framework Appreciative Inquiry 4D Cycle Blake-Mouton Managerial Grid model Brook’s Law Bus-Length Communication Principle Cone of Uncertainty Conway’s Law Cynefin framework Dialogue model from Crucial Conversations DiSC Personality Model Double-Loop Learning Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance model Dunbar’s Law Dunning-Kruger effect Effects of Project Switching Empathy Map Emotional Intelligence Flexible Framework for Agile Retrospectives The Five Dysfunctions of a Team The Golden Circle Goodhart’s Law Hawthorne Effect The Helpful Rule Hierarchy of Needs Immunity to Change (Immunity Map) Imposter Syndrome Integral Theory

Ladder of Inference Leadership Agility Motivation 3.0 Nine Levels of Learning Nonviolent Communication (NVC) OCAI Competing Values Framework Prime Directive Reinventing Organizations Results Pyramid Rule of the Second Floor Rule of Three Satir Change Model Schneider Culture Model Shu Ha Ri Six Thinking Hats Stacey Matrix Sources of Self-Efficacy System of Profound Knowledge T-shaped People/Skills Ten Fatal Leadership Flaws Thinking Fast and Slow Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode instrument Tree of Agile High Performance Tribal Leadership Tuckman Model of Group Development Types of Power Wisdom of Crowds World After Midnight Yerkes-Dodson Law (Hebbian version) Zeigarnik Effect

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ADKAR Change Management Peter Principle Five Thieves of Time Journey Mapping Systems Modeling Empathy Toy Ball Toss Game Penny Flip Game Pair Origami Myers Briggs / DiSC Modern Agile N.I.C.E. Feedback Three Levels of Listening Five Levels of Agile Planning Tale of Five Monkeys SFD (Shitty First Draft)

GROW coaching model Communication model Impact Mapping User Story Mapping Kanban Values (Scrum, XP, Agile, Lean pillars) Influence Maps Ishikawa (Fishbone) Six Trumps Office NVC Mob Programming TDD Hackathons & FedEx Days Gemba Walks Lean Coffee / Open Space / World Cafe Pomodoro