Salah Elleithy
Spark Courageous Curiosity
Salah Elleithy is an Agile / Co-Active Coach and Facilitator on a mission to spark courageous curiosity with a twist of play. He has been coaching and facilitating change at different levels of the organization with the focus on organizational agility. Salah also leads and facilitates Agile NOVA, a community dedicated to lifelong learning. His passion is to bring play into organizations with the motto of play for purpose and progress.
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Mobbing for learning!
“We don’t have time for learning but we want to deliver value fast. And by the way, we need to develop new skills and attract talent but we have limited to no budget!” Huh!
Does that sound familiar? If it does, you are not alone! This is one of the most prevalent patterns we have seen in organizations. We see this almost everywhere. Leaders and Managers demand that teams deliver value fast with no time to learn new skills. It's an oxymoron or may be a paradox!
It's difficult (dare I say impossible) to attract talent if your organization keeps doing what it has always done. And if your organization needs to develop new skills internally, how will it be able to do that without dedicating time for deliberate learning?! A vicious cycle to say the least not to mention the impact on morale.
I am not a mind reader but I could imagine you looking at us with a puzzled look and a thought that goes like, "Ya think!" It would be a valid response, I say, as I am sure you have seen or experienced this vicious cycle in many places. You may be even experiencing it right now!
In this session, Salah and Ganesh can help you explore concrete ideas for experimentation on balancing speed and learning using concepts from Mob Programming. We can't promise any silver bullets however we do believe in experimenting and learning fast!
Questions to explore:
1. What is Mob Programming (or Mobbing)?
2. Where to find talent/skills currently in your organization?
3. How to introduce Mobbing to accelerate the learning?
4. What does it take to amplify the good? (or as Woody Zuill puts it "turn up the good!")
5. What is mobbing for learning and how does it help solve this problem?
At the end of this session, you will be able to introduce Mobbing to your organization (perhaps even with a demo), attract developers who really want to shake things up and start finding places to "turn up the good!".
Agile Indicators: Start with Questions!
Most teams hate tracking or sharing metrics with managers or leaders. When the teams are asked to share metrics like velocity, burn down and other output-driven metrics, teams hear what are you "busy" doing? So, the team starts to focus on showing how busy they are which drives the wrong behavior and stifles their opportunity for learning and growing and using metrics for good.
Since the essence of agility is continuous improvement via inspection and adaptation. We want to reframe the conversation around Agile indicators that start with questions! What questions are you asking your team? How are you helping them to learn and grow? What indicators are you looking at?
In this session, we will be providing insights around using Agile indications with questions in order to embrace a mindset that encourages more learning, growing, and less judgment. A curiosity mindset encourages organizations to move from “busy work” or output-focused metrics to outcomes-focused using questions.
3 essential skills for better Coaching Conversations
Think of a time when you experienced a conversation that left you with a new perspective or perhaps an inquiry or you might have felt that something has shifted in you after that conversation. Maybe it helped you gain a new level of clarity or moved you to take action. That was a coaching conversation.
That’s how I define a coaching conversation. When I think of it, it seems like it covers most conversations especially if you listen, you’re curious and you acknowledge what’s happening to you and to the other person or team. To the outside observer, this might seem like a regular Tuesday however for the trained coach, there is a set of coaching skills at play!
There are many coaching skills to explore however in this session, we will focus on 3 essential coaching skills for better coaching conversations.
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