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If you're still dubious about coaching, or you're wondering if I'm the right coach for you, there's only one way to resolve the issue: contact me to chat about your situation, your questions, and your concerns. I'll give you straightforward, honest answers and I promise I won't try to pressure you into anything. Not even a cosmic crystal.
In the meantime, read what some of the best and brightest thinkers about programming have to say about coaching as a productivity tool:
"Coaching and team development are important for continual refinement to help the team achieve the best possible results while collaborating together and with customers. Coaching is an interpersonal skill that helps people provide each other with real-time feedback so they can do their work more effectively. Real-time feedback is important for continual refinement because it ensures problems are dealt with as quickly as possible.Team development (understanding the business and professional development) are equally important because the more the team understands the business and has current skills, the better it will be at both anticipating and initiating changes in its ecosystem...
Coaching is an important interpersonal skill for every member of the team. Coaching is essentially providing individuals (people who work for you, people you report to, and people you work with), teams, and customers the real-time feedback they need to become effective and continually improve. Coaching helps minimize friction and negative tensions while helping people work better together and focus on the desired result."
Kevin Tate,
Sustainable Software Development,
Addison Wesley, 2006.