News from CATeams™

After a summer break, CATeams Clinics resume on Thursday, 24 September, central London, 17.00-19.00. We'll be around to talk about any of your issues with teams and organisations: one of our recent concerns is the way we frame discussions and conversations, so in particular if you're involved in, or preparing for, a difficult conversations within or between parts of your organisations, we'd be delighted to hear your stories and offer advice. We're looking forward to seeing you: sign up here and come along.

We're holding the July CATeams Clinic on Tuesday, 21 July. We'll be joined by our associate Rachel Davies: to celebrate the publication of her book on coaching agile teams, we'll focus this clinic's attention on issues around coaching. So if you're trying to coach individuals or a team team in your company (development team, product team, executive team - in fact at any level), or would like to understand what coaching might mean for your organisation, let us know and come along.

CATeams associate Rachel Davies is the proud author of a new book on Agile Coaching. We're looking forward to it! Rachel and her co-author Liz Sedley will be running a session on coaching at the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago in August.

Joseph, Ben and David were happy to welcome the eight attendees at our first CATeams Clinic, last week in London. We enjoyed the conversations we had with everyone who came, and we're pleased to have had good feedback from all! The next clinic is scheduled for Wednesday 17 June - slots are limited, so sign up early to avoid disappointment.

Ben will be running a session at the Mini XP Day 2009 session in Mechelen, Belgium, Monday 11 May 2009. This is a "best-of" event, so we're pleased to be asked back! More details here.

Monthly from 20 May, we'll be holding a free open clinic in central London. Bring your teamwork, organisation, innovation, Agile adoption problems and questions to us, and we'll help you understand what's going on and suggest effective interventions to create change. More details here.

Joseph Pelrine's Coaching Self-Organizing Teams has grown into an all-day workshop, and is now part of the Spring 2009 CATeams schedule! More details here.

Our highly anticipated one-day workshop on a topic that's gaining in visibility and importance now has a date: Wednesday 14 October, 2009. We're excited by this course, and are very pleased that Sarah Hendrickx, a top UK expert on Asperger/autism in the workplace, will be leading the day. Read more here.

Welcome to our new associates, Rachel Davies and Steve Freeman! Rachel and Steve have done a great deal over the years to develop the way we think about teams and to create new ideas in coaching and training - you can read more about them here.