Agile Coaching for Changing Environments

Episode Description:

How agile is your coaching practice? In this episode of Coaching Revealed, Teresa Ramos, an Executive Coach with experience in theoretical physics, agile leadership, and artificial intelligence is interviewed by IOC podcast host, Emily Terrani. Teresa and Emily discuss how coaches can utilize the Agile methodology and how to prepare for the advancing wave of technological change.

This episode covers:

How coaches can respond to digital anxiety
Using agile methodologies to address identity and value concerns
Discovering your power skills: critical thinking, powerful questioning, ethical reasoning
Context-specific uses of agile principles
Assessing your ‘area of genius’ as a coach and individual

Episode Summary:

Teresa shares how coaching positively impacted her professional career as she navigated culture shock upon returning home to Spain after working two decades abroad. This revelation of the power of coaching combined with her technology expertise laid the groundwork for her in agile methodologies.

Having worked in Artificial Intelligence since 1996, Teresa shares how early software developers created the agile methodology to help teams communicate better and handle rapid change within industries. She adds that as coaches, helping clients discern their identity and values can help them utilize technology to optimize their power skills, which include critical thinking, powerful questioning, and ethical reasoning.

With agile methodology, Teresa advocates for how individuals can access their ‘area of genius’. She advocates for a willingness to fail, and a mindset on technology as a tool that can help enhance individual performance.

This episode highlights the importance of consistent personal reflection and communication with others to help move forward in continually changing times. Teresa shares the crucial importance of understanding oneself to move forward and proposes the agile methodology as the tool to help guide the way.