At SOURCE we work with our clients as an agile coaching capability development partner.
The SOURCE Way involves tapping into and leveraging the deep and extensive agile community relationships we’ve built over years of work across Australia. These relationships provide SOURCE with access to the most talented and capable agility coaches and practitioners.
SOURCE works between two quite different ‘worlds’; the Agile Coaching Community and large clients with aspirations to uplift their agility.
SOURCE is a trusted supplier of work engagements to the community of agile coaches whilst also supporting organisations to attract and retain the best agile coaches to meet their change requirements. The best agile coaches know the theory but more importantly have the experience to back it up.
The best agile coaches are hard to find and even more difficult to attract and retain. At SOURCE, we have a proven process to not only improve your organisations chances of attracting the best talent but also to efficiently screen and onboard agile coaches in a timely manner. Without the right mix of talented agile coaches, even the most well-coordinated change program is at risk of failure. The SOURCE Talent Process is designed to reduce this risk and set clients up for success.
Our SOURCE Incubator program is an agile coaching capability development program that runs over 12-weeks; it aims to accelerate an agile coach’s career, delivering a step-change in their capability. The SOURCE Incubator is different to traditional knowledge-based certified agile courses in that it combines field experiments, reflective practices, community networking and mentoring with face-to-face learning to deliver what we believe is the most comprehensive agile coaching course on the market today.
The world is constantly changing; the pace of disruption and level of competitiveness is ever increasing. Agility, the capability to respond quickly to disruption, is fast becoming a top priority for organisations; including government and not-for-profit sectors. An agile coach or agility coach enables the broader adoption of new ways to work that support higher levels of organisational agility. SOURCE can deliver your agile coaching as a service or support you to build a capability within your organisation.
Niall McShane is the founder and Managing Director of SOURCE. Niall is a coach at heart and throughout his career has applied coaching in many situations; sports, life, leadership and most recently agile and ways to work.
There are two consistent themes in all of the coaching Niall has delivered over the years; performance (getting the outcome) and growth (getting better). These two elements are central to his life and work at SOURCE.
Niall has built an agile coaching career through hiring, training, and mentoring others to be agile coaches. More recently he has done this whilst delivering agile coaching to a broad range of customers (business and technology) across large enterprises down to small start-ups.
A recent role saw Niall as the Head of a Coach Academy at a large (30,000 people) Australian corporate undergoing a full transformation of its way of working. He trained and established a mentoring approach for 70+ agile coaches from beginners to experts.
Our Source Founder and Principal, Niall McShane has led the development of multiple large agile coaching teams within some of Australia’s largest transformation programs; in this whitepaper he outlines his process for enabling organisations to build a high-performing agile coaching team.
Niall shares all the (hard-learned) lessons and provides practical advice on some of the biggest challenges sponsors face when embarking on building an agile coaching team:
• How to get clarity of the outcomes expected from an agile coach
• How to avoid hiring “imposter” agile coaches who talk-the-talk but don’t have the competency
• How to attract and retain talent as you go to market for coaches
• How to select and partner with consulting firms as you build your coaching capability
• How to design an agile coach performance management model (with example metrics)
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IT Solutions team at Eurofins Environment Testing
Australia engaged Niall to help improve Agile ways of working. Niall conducted on site sessions with all members and helped us understand identify areas of improvement.
Thank you Niall for bringing in your expertise to help our IT Solutions team perform better.
Vibrance Partners
Vibrance Partners taps into the Agile Coaching network of Source Agility to help find additional agile coaches for various client engagements. Source Agility both identifies and vets agile coaches before making recommendations, providing insights into the coaches’ strengths and development needs. We have been really pleased with the quality of coaches to whom we have been provided introductions.
Michael Lambert
Human-centric SaaS Leader
I first encountered Niall's work through a post on LinkedIn as he was embarking on his journey as an author. After attending a meetup he hosted, I rapidly decided to pre-order Niall's book and I've been active in the Agile community Niall has built ever since. As I made the decision to step away from my individual contributor role, Niall's wealth of knowledge helped guide me toward a decision on the career path that I would find most fulfilling. From his ability to sense and then respond, to knowing if he should open and hold or tell and show, I never felt like I was being pressured or steered in a particular direction
Rajat Bhalla
Agile Coach
Niall and I worked together at Telstra. Niall would always look to help his mentees by giving them just enough direction and helping them learn through their own experience. He was quite comfortable in coaching the leadership team and sharing his insights with rest of the coaching group. As a leader of the coaching group at Telstra, Niall was successful in shaping the practices of the sub-org whilst taking them further on the path to maturity
Dr. Darren Gandel
Department of Education & Training
Niall is an amazing agile coach who actively displays his years of industry experience. He has a wide and deep understanding of agile ways of working coupled with on the ground experience in many challenging and complex environments. Moreover, he has great stakeholder management skills and always driven to achieve a positive outcome. Niall is someone you can count on to drive productive agile transformations and capability uplifts in your organisations
