Coaching Digital Nomads - Skills needed for an Agile Coach

As more and more digital nomads a.k.a millennials enter the workforce and redefine the workplace productivity, how can organization and agile coaches prepare themselves to nurture and coach the millennial/digital nomads to realize organization/project goals and deliver value to business?

Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the generational demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z who were born in early 1980s. Millennials now have the most spending power of any generation, which means that creating a work environment that they can thrive in matters more than ever.

Let’s see some of the interesting characteristics of millennial,

Collaborative: They send a median of 50 texts a day. Socially connected: They have the highest average number of Facebook friends, with an average of 250 friends vs. Generations X’s 200. Multi-taskers: In the age of information overload, millennial’s are able to consume and assimilate more information than ever. Tech Savvy: With an internet enabled smartphone, they spend roughly around 4 hours per day consuming the online content through app or browsers. and much more. As more and more millennial’s enter the workforce and redefine the workplace productivity, how can organization and agile coaches prepare themselves to nurture and coach the millennial’s to realize organization/project goals and deliver value to business?

I will also talk about the challenges while dealing the millennial’s (as compared to Gen X workers who were managed from top-down), coaching models, skills that can help agile coaches to maximize the potential of the millennial’s, exploiting the characteristics of the millennial’s to improve productivity and do’s and don’t while coaching millennial’s.

Technical Requirements: Paper Charts, Whiteboard with Charts, Markers, Projector

Presentation will be on the below agenda: (5 mins) Introduction and personality traits of millennials (5 mins) Evolution of behaviors @ workplace (5 mins) Coaching challenges (5 mins) Skills needed for Agile coach (10 mins) Coaching models and frameworks (5 mins) Coaching techniques, do’s and don’t while coaching millenials (5 mins) Things that Organizations can do (5 mins) Q&A?

Learning Outcome Audience will be able to Understand millennial’s characteristics, Learn about the workplace behaviors about different generations and millennials Learn about different skills needed for coaching millennial generation, Learn the techniques on coaching millennials, Learn about the agile coaching models tailored for millennials, Understand the Do’s and Dont’s while coaching millennials

I’ve been coaching millennial’s including Scrum Masters for the past 6 years and I have used multiple coaching techniques to improve the productivity of the team and able to achieve the project and organization goals. The audience will be able to appreciate the traits of millennial’s workforce, how to use their coaching skills along with proven models to get the better out of the digital nomads. The session will have some key takeaways in terms of do’s and dont’s while coaching millennial’s, how to coach the millennials