Hidden behind every organization’s desire to improve is a recognition of gaps in their performance. The gaps could be related to delivery time, quality problems, product-market fit, development costs, or a combination of these and more.
As a coach, you are often asked to help teams improve these performance gaps. Agile coaching has been around for 20 years, but it often comes up short. Success requires going beyond simply coaching teams on how to adopt an agile framework. To help teams become more effective you have to help them improve their capabilities, and more importantly, help them incorporate continuous learning into the way they work.
In Coaching for Learning, experienced coaches Dion Stewart and Joel Tosi guide you through an approach for helping teams learn in the context of doing their real-world work. You’ll start off by getting a grounding in the theory of how individuals and teams learn effectively. From there, you’ll gain an understanding of how the theory leads to principles of creating effective learning experiences. Beyond the theory, you’ll learn specific techniques and practices to help teams improve product discovery practices, lean / agile delivery processes, and technical engineering practices.
Coaching for Learning builds upon the foundation Tosi and Stewart laid out in their first book Creating Your Dojo. This book is a practical, how-to (and why-to) manual for coaches working with teams in dojos or any immersive learning experiences.
Transforming your company’s digital product development capability is a monumental task that can leave even the most seasoned leader feeling completely at sea. Compounding the problem are traditional training methods which typically fail to deliver the desired results. Instead of transformation, organizations get only incremental, piecemeal improvement that doesn’t lead to significant change.
If you want learning that sticks and transforms, you need a dojo: a permanent, immersive learning environment within your organization. Inside a dojo, team members learn new skills in the context of their day-to-day, real-world work.
Dojos allow today's team leaders to create thriving product development cultures that empower team members to solve their own problems. The result is vastly improved product quality, reduced cycle times, and more innovative products that exhibit better product/market fit.
In this landmark first-of-its-kind book, industry leading dojo coaches Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart guide you step by step through the process of creating your own dojo.