Mid-Week Update
At training this week to receive 2 certs, Agile Team Facilitation and Agile Coaching. To some degree have been doing this for a while, but cool to have the actual credentials. What’s interesting is to have these roles as an introvert. (Again this does not mean the person is shy, just inherently introspective….and that it’s very draining to engage with people, especially in large groups). It’s funny because essentially my job in these roles both compliment and conflict with m…y nature. On the compliment side, my brain automatically goes like 5 levels deep to find root cause when observing someone “reacting” so I can easily recalibrate in tough situations….but as an introvert/empath type my brain is CONSTANTLY doing that analysis with pretty much everyone I encounter regardless of what’s going on so…personally exhausting. I generally deal in a bad way by just avoiding people outside of work.
What’s SUPER interesting to me about this training though is that the vast majority of this is not really about facilitation of others at all, but more about facilitation of SELF. It is HEAVY on self-awareness and especially self-MANAGEMENT. It’s one thing to know your pitfalls but another to know how to MANAGE them so you can optimize your impact on others. Much of this training is about self-reflection, figuring out how to remove your ego, listen, not project your own thing on the situation, to really be a mirror so people can solve their own problems rather than owning their problems for them. I know I struggle with that last point especially…
All this to say, it’s been SUPER helpful and I’m learning a lot that I’ll def be able to apply in life as well. I’ve always felt this way, but especially being driven home now : before you react to something, take a beat and really think about why someone might say or do something that doesn’t make sense to you. Don’t frame it in YOUR mental model so you can readily take offense to whatever it is, consider that maybe they truly have a different POV or priorities. This doesn’t make them wrong or make them a bad person, it just makes them a different thinker with different experiences that led them to those conclusions.
Oh and also full disclosure, I thought this training was going to be SUPER fluffy going in…and it was for a bit, but I get it now. It’s just interesting that for real most of it has been about how to be introspective. Like I legit LIVE in my head so it’s almost bad advice….I need opposite of introspective truthfully…
I also heard of a deeper Agi.le Coa.ch intensive where they have you live in a house for a week and the actual intent is to break you as a person…
Not sure what the point of all THAT is and 100% no please.
