Fast Track Coaching Skills For Testers

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Experience the core fundamentals of coaching: Unconditional positive regard, active listening and powerful questioning. Attendees split into smaller groups, and each group will rotate through each activity.

Instructions:

Unconditional positive regard

Work through each provided scenario and come up with 3-5 reasons a reasonable person would ...

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Stu Day

Head of Quality

I've been in the software testing & quality world since 1997 and love it. I'm a senior leader, a coach, international speaker, workshop facilitator, writer & founder of Quality Talks.

Vernon Richards

Quality Coach / Senior Quality Engineer

I’m a Quality Coach & Tester that helps orgs, teams & individuals understand the relationship between quality & testing to help them build better products & deliver more effective services.

I’ve been testing since 2002 starting with video games on PS2, Xbox & PC. It may not sound like a real job but it’s the truth!

By day I’m a Senior Quality Engineer at a health tech night I run Abode of Quality. Here is one of my core values:

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude (& how you’re thinking) about the problem.” - Captain Jack Sparrow (the part in brackets was my addition though!)

I believe that quality & testing problems are actually people problems in disguise! Often the cause of these problems is misaligned goals, different perspectives, low empathy for colleagues, and the list goes on.

Using my coaching skills in the quality & testing space, I believe the most effective way to serve the business, is to help teams & individuals gain new perspectives about themselves & their teammates.

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