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Unlock Your Coaching Potential: Introducing our latest Time-Saving Tool.

Published 6 months ago • 2 min read

​ Hello fellow agile coach Reader, ​

You might recall us doing some user research just over a month ago. Thank you so much to those of you who participated! We got your feedback loud and clear, and have been beavering away since then on a new concept.


What was the feedback?

The majority of you are agile coaches working very hard and with many teams across your (mostly large) organisations. You would love to have more time for conversations: to coach, listen, learn, nudge and problem solve. You run workshops a few times a month and spend about half a day preparing for a workshop. Here is an infographic summarising what you told us.

And then, inspiration struck!

What if we could help you free up time to have those coaching conversations? What is the one thing we know how to do really well, that we can share? If you know anything about us, you'll know we LOVE interactive workshops. We've spent over a decade designing and running workshops for clients, for conferences, for meetup groups, and always getting great results. In fact, our Coaches Guide book series was our first version of sharing our ideas for workshops and training.

But the world has changed since then, and 90% of teams we encounter work remotely. The tools and technology have improved massively in that time, but so has the time it takes to prepare an effective workshop.

Introducing your coaching advantage: Ready-To-Use Workshops

We do all the hard work of research, preparation and design for you. We design the workshop using Training from the Back of the Room techniques to maximise learning and engagement. You get a full facilitation guide, a beautifully designed Mural board for all the activities, a checklist to help you prepare including emails to send to participants before and after the session, and our expert tips on how to scale or modify the workshop.

The first workshop - a 10 year celebration

When deciding on the topic for the first Ready-To-Use Workshop, we realised it's been 10 years since we created the Agile Testing Manifesto. To celebrate, we created a brand new agile manifesto poster and dedicated the first Ready-To-Use workshop to Agile Testing!

Thank You

As a special thank you for completing our user research survey, we would live to give you a complimentary copy of our first Ready-To-Use workshop. Just click the link below to claim it! ENJOY!

$20.00

$5.00

Agile Testing - Ready To Use - Workshop Guide

Everything you need to run an engaging 90 minute workshop with your team on the agile testing mindset.


Reply to this newsletter if you have ideas for what our next Ready-To-Use Workshop should be!

Thanks,

Growing Agile

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