A la hora de presentarme, creo que lo mejor es empezar por el principio. Me formé como ingeniero de telecomunicaciones y he trabajado como administrador de sistemas y programador en C++. En 2006 conocí la metodología Scrum y me he especializado en este campo, trabajando como profesional por cuenta ajena y como consultor independiente. En 2014 me certifiqué como Scrum Manager y en 2015 como practicante de Agile por el prestigioso Project Management Institute.
Con el tiempo me he ido formando como coach, tanto en mi área de especialización como a un nivel más general. En 2020, obtuve el Máster «Coaching & Mentoring Fundamentals for Agile», por la Escuela Europea de Coaching de España; además, he sido certificado como coach por la prestigiosa International Coaching Foundation.
Al mismo tiempo, soy escritor. Un escritor peculiar, que no se ciñe a un género concreto, sino que publica aquello que considera que puede ayudar a otras personas. Por eso he publicado dos libros dirigidos a las personas interesadas en la metodología Scrum, tanto a nivel básico («Scrum para No Informáticos») como avanzado («Agile Coaching para Scrum Masters»). También he publicado un libro de ficción sobre el estrés laboral, basado en mi propia experiencia profesional («El Ciclo del Estrés Laboral»).
Pero no me he conformado con escribir libros dirigidos a profesionales. También he publicado uno dirigido a cualquier persona interesada en el sentido profundo de su vida. Se titula «Madurando Tu Fe Católica». En 2016 volví a la Fe Católica y he sentido la inquietud y la necesidad de compartir mi camino espiritual con otras personas. El resultado ha sido este libro. Lo escribí pensando en las personas que, como yo mismo, hemos sido educadas en la Fe Católica pero luego la abandonamos. Como adultos, necesitamos un mapa para reencontrarnos con ella. Pero el libro también ayudará a cualquier persona que sienta la inquietud de encontrar el sentido profundo de su vida.
When managers or entrepreneurs have to manage a team, the pressure for results and deadlines determines everything.
And, since you are under pressure, you in turn pressure your team in various ways.
You order that your instructions be strictly followed. You demand that deadlines be met without delays. You give lessons on how things are done. You criticize and judge if someone makes a mistake.
It's what you've learned. It's what you're used to.
But you know that all this is an exhausting effort, both for you and for the people who work with you.
You are in constant tension, always stressed.
Your team is forced to work overtime. They make an effort that exhausts them.
Then they make mistakes. These errors must be corrected, so you put yourself under tension again.
Apathy and demotivation appear. Performance is getting less and less. The environment is not good.
Why does all this happen?
Very simple: because pressure is not the way.
Pressure is a way of exerting violence with words.
You don't consider yourself a violent person, okay. But without realizing it, you are exercising verbal and psychological violence that leads nowhere.
This makes it impossible to get true commitment from your team.
It is impossible to get the people who work with you to truly be a team. They will only be a group.
In a group there is a boss who orders and pressures, and some subordinates who obey.
A team is something else: everyone is committed because they participate in the decisions.
True leadership consists of that: creating a climate of complicity and collaboration. The pressure becomes unnecessary, and the results improve substantially. They come naturally.
How do you get a group to become a team?
That's what "Agile Coaching for Scrum Masters" is about.
It is the guide that will help you free yourself from orders and pressure.
It is the guide that will introduce you to management skills that you did not know: those that will make you communicate in a completely different way.
These are the skills that make teams work:
The ability to listen empathetically and without intending to be right. You will be able to understand what is happening to your team while maintaining objectivity. The ability to ask powerful questions. You will get the team to participate in the decisions and make them their own. The ability to come up with solutions to problems, without judging anyone. You will find specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound solutions.
I know very well what I'm talking about, as I have extensive professional experience in training and managing teams, applying these skills.
I haven't invented them. They come from two areas: one of them is Agile, a way of working that has revolutionized teamwork, human resources management, and commercial management. That is why leading companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, ING Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, etc. apply it.
The other is team coaching. A coach is a trusted person who inspires and motivates another, who accompanies them in their reflections so that they reach their full potential. When you learn to act like this you will see that your group becomes a team.
The time has come for you to change your skin. If you want to form and manage teams based on trust, complicity and collaboration, you are one step away from achieving it.
Título : Agile Coaching for Scrum Masters
EAN : 9781393513452
Editorial : Antonio Montes Orozco
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