Engineering Culture By Infoq

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. Why listen to this podcast: • Being a coach is learning to become your whole person so you can enable others to live at their full potential • The characteristics of playful leaders are they take calculated risks, they look after their people and are results focused • True Play is fair play, safe play and being a good sport even in tough • Playful leadership is a collection of tools and techniques that enable you to adopt a playful mindset, even when under pressure • There is scientific evidence that laughter IS a great medicine More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/341jKcD You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software devel