Portia Tung on Coaching, Playful Leadership and the Importance of Play at Work

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

• Episode: Portia Tung on Coaching, Playful Leadership and the Importance of Play at Work
• Website: Engineering Culture by InfoQ
• Feed URL: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:258266127/sounds.rss
• Duration: 00:20:16
• Published: 2019-08-26 15:55

In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Portua Tung from the School of Play about agile coaching, helping individuals and organisations adopt a playful leadership style and the importance of play in the workplace. Why listen to this podcast: • Being a coach is learning to become your whole person so you can enable others to live at their full potential • The characteristics of playful leaders are they take calculated risks, they look after their people and are results focused • True Play is fair play, safe play and being a good sport even in tough • Playful leadership is a collection of tools and techniques that enable you to adopt a playful mindset, even when under pressure • There is scientific evidence that laughter IS a great medicine More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/341jKcD 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/341jKcD