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  • A format for Strengths Based Feedback

    This is a format that we used when I was working with my Leadership Coach Stacey Sargent. I use it often and have found that it normally leads to an insightful, constructive discussion, and it’s so much more interesting than “what did I do well and what can I do better”. Strengths based feedback: (a)…

  • Anne’s Top Tips for Enablement – Lessons from being an Agile Coach

    Often at ThoughtWorks we will be asked to help train and up-skill the client’s team members whilst we co-deliver projects. We call this enablement.  These are some lessons that I learnt whilst being an agile coach and from having 1:1 coaching sessions with clients, that are worth thinking about if find yourself on the “consulting”…

  • Where have I been?!

    Well, it would seem a year has gone by…. Most of that year was spent commuting back and forth to Glasgow from London each week for ThoughtWorks. I was working with a client up there from late April 2014 to early March this year, first as a developer and then as an Agile Coach, leading…

  • Leadership coaching – the best investment I have made in myself.

    I have just wrapped up 6 months of coaching with Stacey Sargent from Connect Growth and Development, and it was such a great experience. I wanted to capture some of my feelings so that I could always remember how much of a difference it made. Why do leadership coaching? I was lucky enough to be…

  • Speaking Event – The Science of Diversity

    Myself and two of my colleagues will be talking about the science of diversity and whether diverse teams are better than non diverse teams…. If you are in London please come along! http://www.thoughtworks.com/events/science-diversity —————————————————— ThoughtWorks would like to invite you to meet with us at an upcoming event. Please share!   ThoughtWorks deliver software to people…

  • Creating C# .Net Websites in IIS with a Powershell Script

    I created this little script to automate the creation of websites in IIS. It’s written in powershell. You will need to run this script in powershell thats running in Administrator Mode. Prerequisites: You will need to have .net installed. Step 1 Loading the Web Administration Module This script is using the WebAdministration module to do…