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Available free on the DCG
Website are numerous publications.
Today's spotlight
falls on a new article, "Agile & Declaration of
Interdependence: A new approach..." by Michael Harris, DCG
President. This article is a follow-up to a presentation given
by Michael Harris at SEPG 2007 earlier this year.
If
you missed the SEPG 2007 Conference, you can download this
white paper and understand the essentials of the presentation
on Agile and the CMMI.
Click here publications
to download the full article...
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Newsletter Vol. 4 April 24, 2007
COACH'S CORNER
with David Herron, DCG
Founder
Put me in Coach, I'm Ready to Play!
My
kids have a soccer coach. My wife has a fitness coach. My dog
even has a behavior coach. What about me? Do I need a coach;
and if so, what for?
Have you noticed an increase in
the number of articles on professional and personal coaching?
I certainly have. The articles are interesting, and the topic
piqued my curiosity. What exactly was professional and
personal coaching? Who are these coaches, and who is getting
coached? And most importantly, am I missing out on something!
To learn more about coaching, I enrolled in a two day seminar
on coaching presented by OnTrack Coaching and Consulting in
Newton, MA. (www.ontrackcoaching.com). Here is what I learned.
What is coaching? It turns out that coaching covers a
wide range of services. There is Executive Coaching,
Leadership Coaching, Life Coaching, Team Coaching, Career
Coaching, on and on. Coaching can be used to support personal
and/or professional goals. The International Coaching
Federation (www.coachfederation.org) defines coaching as an
ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce
fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.
Coaching assumes that the client is resourceful and
therefore is 100% responsible for the results produced. The
coaching relationship is often described as a designed
alliance helping the client to identify new choices by seeing
new perspectives and then creating a plan that will get them
to take action.
Coaching is not consulting (telling
them what to do) nor is it mentoring (hand holding). I tend to
think of the coach as an enabler. Creating a safe environment
where the client can think creatively and constructively
without fear of criticism, judgment or failure. A good coach
will listen and observe and then customize their approach to
individual client needs.
What happens during a coaching
session? First of all....
For the rest of this
article, "Put me in Coach, I'm Ready to Play!", Browse our
publications section, publications
to download the full article...
 DCG and OnTrack Webinar....5/1/07 and
5/3/07
“How coaching can improve the performance of
distributed IT teams and managers.” ...
Project teams
have evolved from a centrally located, single culture group of
employees to a globally distributed, multi-national team of
professionals. Team members may or may not be from the same
organization with the potential for different priorities and
company objectives. The barriers or risks inherent within
these team dynamics have become relatively well known. This
webinar will take a look at how team and executive coaching
can help distributed teams align across geographic and
cultural boundaries to improve their performance.
You
have two chances in May to attend this free, very important
webinar. Two dates and times are available, May 1st, 8:00 a.m.
EST and May 3rd, 11:00 a.m. EST
DCG's free webinar,
"How coaching can improve the performance of distributed IT
teams and managers" will be presented by DCG's Mike Harris and
David Herron in conjunction with Marilyn Edelson of
OnTrack...
Please click here for more on OnTrack
Consulting and Coaching OnTrack
Coaching
Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now
at: May
1st, 8:00 a.m. EST Register Now!
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