Antoinette Coetzee
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Antoinette is a Team, Leadership and Agile coach, who focusses on growing inner agility in leaders at all levels of the organization. She is a coach of coaches and trains and develops coaches at both the Team and Enterprise level internationally. She spends most of her time collaborating with leadership teams and Agile transformation leads, as well as more junior leaders like Agile coaches and Scrum Masters. Her forte is growing agility in EVERYONE, and showing others how to do it in their organisations. She is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), a trained professional coach and certified in Organisational and Relationship Systems Coaching and loves working with systems in conflict.
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Sugar and spice and all that's nice - that's NOT what relationships are made of!
For a while now we have been appreciative of the importance of crafting authentic relationships - the "Individuals and Interactions" value in the Agile Manifesto. We know that relationships are better when there is safety, so we spend time on Team Startups, and we create Working Agreements or Alliances to consciously shape our relationships. And we notice the benefits.
But have you ever asked yourself how to go about creating exceptional connections? Between yourself and others, but also between those that you work with? The actual practical steps you can take - what you can DO? The actual science of it? Or do you believe that some people are just naturally better at relationships and that is the way it is?
If you are keen to explore this, join me for a practical and potentially surprising journey into the nature of trust, connection, betrayal, vulnerability and more. Let's look at your relationships and see what practical tools and skills might be of use to you. And who knows - those that you are in relationship with might just notice the difference!
YOU decide! Oh, wait, not THAT decision!
Most employees do not take full advantage of their autonomy and most leaders wish employees would be more autonomous. Most employees don't feel empowered to make decisions and most leaders don't understand why people don't step up when they are invited to. What is going on here? How do we create organisations - teams and leaders alike - to create more self-organisation or even more self-management? What does it mean, in fact?
In this session we will unpack self-organisation, how leaders unconsciously hinder self-organisation and share proven ways to create an environment where self-organisation is not only possible, but will be inevitable.
Let's talk about talking
We cannot manage what we cannot express, and how we express it makes all the difference. Have you been in situations where either we go round and round and round, but nothing gets decided? Or where we decide on something, but in your heart you know it's a shoddy decision that will be revisited? What about those two battle axes that get stuck in and hold the rest of us back from moving forward as well?
The key lies in noticing the patterns in conversations. There are only four speech acts, and everything that happens in a conversation is the result of which of those four gets used, which ones we prefer, which ones we don't use and how they follow one another. The ability to decode conversations in this manner gives facilitators and leaders a powerful toolbox to intervene, and more importantly to change behaviour.
Creating Space and Focus in yourself and your teams
Do you find yourself unlocking your phone to send a quick Slack, only to find yourself 20 mins later having read your new WhatsApp messages, and then responding, and then those new LinkedIn notifications while you are at it, subsequently catching up on LinkedIn while you were there, finally getting into Slack, only to first read and respond to several updated threads, and then returning to what you were doing before all this, only to realise you STILL haven't sent that initial quick Slack?
Does it drive you mad, or have you in fact starting relying on outside stimuli to keep you "entertained"? And even when you watch that stimulating movie you double screen?
Our awareness, focus and intention have become the slaves of what draws our attention. What if we start practicing to take back control?
Come join us for a few easy and short practices that will not only create a little breather, a brief resting spot, for the mind, but also train your awareness over time to follow YOUR lead, not the other way around. Best of all, they are simple enough to teach your teams so you can also have better meetings, and ultimately better outcomes!
Collaborate better: a workshop on having better conversations
Collaboration is key in Agile. Collaboration means communicating with one another, which, if you think about it carefully, means talking to another. Most of us are aware that the words we use and the way we say it can impact people negatively or positively, but did you know that all conversations have an underlying structure as well? That there really are only four actions we can take in conversation? And that there are patterns that work and patterns that don't work?
For instance, consider the following juvenile snippet of conversation:
"It is!" "No, it isn't!" "Yes, it is!" "No, it isn't!"
We all know that the adult equivalent of this conversation happens in our interactions, and that it does not go anywhere. It leaves us frustrated and uncomfortable. But why does it not work and how do we intervene without turning up the heat? The answer lies in working with the structure and patterns of conversations, rather than the content.
Whether you are working with teams, leading a transition, a member of a team or simply interested in exploring this simple framework with us, join us and start having better conversations!
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