Antonio Montes Orozco

Agile Coaching for Scrum Masters (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When managers or entrepreneurs have to manage a team, the pressure for results and deadlines determines everything.

And, since you are under pressure, you in turn pressure your team in various ways.

• You order that your instructions be strictly followed.
• You demand that deadlines be met without delays.
• You give lessons on how things are done.
• You criticize and judge if someone makes a mistake.

It's what you've learned. It's what you're used to.

But you know that all this is an exhausting effort, both for you and for the people who work with you.

You are in constant tension, always stressed.

Your team is forced to work overtime. They make an effort that exhausts them.

Then they make mistakes. These errors must be corrected, so you put yourself under tension again.

Apathy and demotivation appear. Performance is getting less and less. The environment is not good.

Why does all this happen?

Very simple: because pressure is not the way.

Pressure is a way of exerting violence with words.

You don't consider yourself a violent person, okay. But without realizing it, you are exercising verbal and psychological violence that leads nowhere.

This makes it impossible to get true commitment from your team.

It is impossible to get the people who work with you to truly be a team. They will only be a group.

In a group there is a boss who orders and pressures, and some subordinates who obey.

A team is something else: everyone is committed because they participate in the decisions.

True leadership consists of that: creating a climate of complicity and collaboration. The pressure becomes unnecessary, and the results improve substantially. They come naturally.

How do you get a group to become a team?

That's what "Agile Coaching for Scrum Masters" is about.

It is the guide that will help you free yourself from orders and pressure.

It is the guide that will introduce you to management skills that you did not know: those that will make you communicate in a completely different way.

These are the skills that make teams work:

• The ability to listen empathetically and without intending to be right. You will be able to understand what is happening to your team while maintaining objectivity.
• The ability to ask powerful questions. You will get the team to participate in the decisions and make them their own.
• The ability to come up with solutions to problems, without judging anyone. You will find specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound solutions.

I know very well what I'm talking about, as I have extensive professional experience in training and managing teams, applying these skills.

I haven't invented them. They come from two areas: one of them is Agile, a way of working that has revolutionized teamwork, human resources management, and commercial management. That is why leading companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, ING Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, etc. apply it.

The other is team coaching. A coach is a trusted person who inspires and motivates another, who accompanies them in their reflections so that they reach their full potential. When you learn to act like this you will see that your group becomes a team.

The time has come for you to change your skin. If you want to form and manage teams based on trust, complicity and collaboration, you are one step away from achieving it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Antonio Montes Orozco
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393513452
• Artikelnr.: 60704657

Autorenporträt

When introducing myself, I think it's best to start at the beginning. I trained as telecommunications engineer and have worked as a systems administrator and C++ programmer. In 2006 I learned about the Scrum methodology, and I have specialized in this field, working as an employee and as an independent consultant. In 2014 I was cerHfied as a Scrum Manager, and in 2015 as an Agile practitioner by the prestigious Project Management Institute.

Over time I have been training as a coach, both in my area of specialization and at a more general level. In 2020, I obtained the Master "Coaching & Mentoring Fundamentals for Agile", from the European Coaching School in Spain; In addition, I have been certified as a coach by the prestigious International Coaching Foundation.

At the same time, I am a writer. A peculiar writer, who does not stick to a specific genre, but publishes what he considers can help other people. That is why I have published two books aimed at people interested in the Scrum methodology, both at a basic level ("Scrum for Non-Techies") and advanced ("Agile Coaching for Scrum Masters"). I have also published a fiction book about work stress, based on my own professional experience ("The Work Stress Cycle").

But I have not settled for writing books aimed at professionals. I have also published one aimed at anyone interested in the deep meaning of their life. It is titled "Maturing Your Catholic Faith." In 2016 I returned to the Catholic Faith, and I have felt the concern and the need to share my spiritual path with other people. The result has been this book. I wrote it thinking about people who, like me, have been educated in the Catholic Faith but then abandoned it. As adults, we need a map to reconnect with it. But the book will also help anyone who feels the need to find the deep meaning of their life.