Agile Quicktalk: Clean language with Mike Bowler

About Mike

Mike is a coach and trainer in the IT space, who has been helping teams improve for over twenty years.

While it’s easy to teach new concepts or skills, changing existing behaviours is extremely hard for most people as those behaviours are happening at an unconscious level. Studying how to help people through those changes has led Mike on a journey into hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, psychology, body language, graphology, clean language, mindscaping and an amazing amount of neuroscience research.

Mike has found that some of the very best facilitation and coaching techniques come from hypnosis, NLP, and other forms of applied neuroscience.

Overview

Clean language is an easy to use technique for getting deeper and more effective conversations. It leverages our understanding of how the brain actually stores and accesses information to get past superficial conversations quickly so that we can get into the core of the problem faster.

In this introduction, you’ll be exposed to some fundamental theory, along with some tips and tricks, to begin to understand the power this technique can bring. It’s extremely useful for anyone facilitating retrospectives or understanding product needs or collecting feedback from others, all things that agile leaders have to do.

You can see Mike’s presentation in our Youtube Channel

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