Enterprise Agile Coaching Quotes

“Perhaps the greatest difference between coaching and consulting is where the intellectual authority lies. Coaching is a partnership, with the coach and client collaborating primarily using the client’s intellectual authority and experience to design new experiments, decisions, and ideas. With coaching, the client is the one with the answers. It is not the coach’s job to advise and instruct, but to ask challenging questions, make observations, and open new perspectives, so the client can see options and plan the best solutions for their environment. Coaches help clients take time to reflect, learn, and develop new ways of thinking. With consulting, the intellectual authority is typically in the hands of the consultant. Clients turn to consultants for advice, instructions, and professional opinions because the consultant can provide answers in areas where the client does not have the experience or expertise. Consultants often step in and do work for the clients.”
― Cherie Silas, Enterprise Agile Coaching: Sustaining Organizational Change Through Invitational Agile Coaching

“Strong contracts are the basis for strong working relationships. They clearly define how we work together and we know how we will handle things when problems arise. With that out of the way, we can trust each other and put all our energy in collaborating and focusing on the work at hand.”
― Cherie Silas, Enterprise Agile Coaching: Sustaining Organizational Change Through Invitational Agile Coaching

“My goal is to honor the client and partner with them to design the right solutions for them. I should make an impact on the client’s world. However, I should never produce carbon copies of myself. I want people to think and to solve problems in ways that work for them.”
― Cherie Silas, Enterprise Agile Coaching: Sustaining Organizational Change Through Invitational Agile Coaching

“1) What will be different about my interactions if I genuinely and authentically believe that every person in the organization I am coaching is completely competent and they do not need me to fix them, 2) In what ways have I been judging the people in the organizations I have coached to be incompetent, which means they need me to learn to do things properly.”
― Cherie Silas, Enterprise Agile Coaching: Sustaining Organizational Change Through Invitational Agile Coaching