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Lyssa Adkins is one of the leading voices in Agile coaching. A founder of the Agile Coaching Institute, her book \u201cCoaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition\u201d set the bar for what it means to be an Agile Coach. In this interview Lyssa and I talk about what\u2019s happening with the Agile Institute, coaching middle management and how to deal with coaching burnout.\n\nShow Notes:\n\nThe Super Nervous Interview Begins 2:10\nFocused Listening 4:05\nFour essential skill sets of coaching 6:00\nThe difference between \u201ccoaching\u201d and being a professional coach 6:30\nBig things going on at Agile Coaching Institute 7:45\nCoaching Middle Management 8:40\nThe impact of the cultural change Agile brings 11:40\nIs there a limit to how much change we can handle and where are the boundaries 12:30\nBackground on the burnt out coach14:30\nBurn out is on the rise with Agile Coaches 15:00\nFinding a path you can be on with heart 15:45\nFinding the heart in letting the org become what it wants to become 16:40\nChecking your own ambition 18:20 \nGoal setting and knowing when to walk away 19:00\nWhat to do with the organizations on Life Support 19:15\nHospicing the death of old systems 20:20\nTrying to reach people who don\u2019t want to take your hand 21:30\nMeeting confusion with curiosity 22:20\nAgile coaches are agents of human evolution 24:00\nHow Agile Coaching Institute helps organizations 24:30\nDeveloping a coaching capability that is in sync with where the organization\u2019s goals 25:45\nHow to find and develop the coaches in an organization 27:45\nHow to help a burnt out coach/change agent 31:25\nThe importance of self-care if you want to be present and help others 32:50\nExposing why people avoid self-care35:00\nWays Lyssa practices self-care 35:30\nThe job is to \u201callow\u201d 37:05\nYou can\u2019t let go because it\u2019s the tension that holds it together 38:18\nWhat happens when you do let go 38:50\nLyssa Reads Poetry 40:25\nAll of us in the Agile community are part of evolving our capacity for complexity 41:45\nWe are in the time of organizations being living thing 43:05\nHow to contact Lyssa 43:25\nLyssa\u2019s advice for the coaches who are feeling burned out 43:55\nLyssa\u2019s Coaching Agile Teams book is 6 years old 44:45\nThanking Lyssa for making me uncomfortable (in a good way) 45:50\nUpcoming Events for Lyssa 46:00\n\nLinks Mentioned in the Podcast\n\nLyssa in Twitter https://twitter.com/lyssaadkins\n\nThe Agile Coaching Institute\nhttp://www.agilecoachinginstitute.com/coaches/\n\n2016 Scrum Gathering Agenda http://bit.ly/1Upsg9W\n\n\nPerseverance - Meg Wheatley http://amzn.to/1W4PSmM\n\nLittle Guide to Empathetic Technical Leadership - Alex Harms https://leanpub.com/littleguide\n\nAgile Base Patterns, a Cross-Quadrant Conversation - a conversation between Lyssa Adkins and Dan Greening http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-base-patterns\n\nIawake.com http://www.iawaketechnologies.com\n\nThe Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America - David Whyte http://amzn.to/1NtifV7