Steve Crago on Coaching, Mentoring and Facilitating Effective Teamwork

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

• Episode: Steve Crago on Coaching, Mentoring and Facilitating Effective Teamwork
• Website: Engineering Culture by InfoQ
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• Duration: 00:22:15
• Published: 2020-06-08 17:10

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Crago about how leaders need to be coaches, being a good mentor and facilitating effective meetings Why listen to this podcast • There is an expectation that leaders are able to be effective coaches for their teams today • There are tools such as the Leadership Circle Profile that can help you understand your own strengths and weaknesses • You don’t necessarily need to work on weaknesses – often enhancing areas of strength can give better results than focusing on improving areas of weakness • To effectively mentor someone in an area you need to have deep knowledge and experience working in that domain • Facilitation is a skillset that is about helping others achieve their goals in a collaborative session More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2Yk1g5s You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2Yk1g5s