Portia Tung on Coaching, Playful Leadership and the Importance of Play at Work

Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 1:55 p.m.

b'In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Portua Tung from the School of Play about agile coaching, helping individuals and organisations adopt a playful leadership style and the importance of play in the workplace.\\n\\nWhy listen to this podcast:\\n\\n\\u2022\\tBeing a coach is learning to become your whole person so you can enable others to live at their full potential\\n\\u2022\\tThe characteristics of playful leaders are they take calculated risks, they look after their people and are results focused \\n\\u2022\\tTrue Play is fair play, safe play and being a good sport even in tough\\n\\u2022\\tPlayful leadership is a collection of tools and techniques that enable you to adopt a playful mindset, even when under pressure\\n\\u2022\\tThere is scientific evidence that laughter IS a great medicine\\n\\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/341jKcD\\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\\n\\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/341jKcD'