Coaching Conversations in 2024
441 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 219 ratingsIn 2024 we're going to be going to monthly themes and I would also encourage you to check out our new podcast coaching youth today for tomorrow. Coaching conversations will continue to have monthly themes with four episodes per month and we're going to start to sprinkle in master classes which are going to be lengthier workshop style formats.
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Coaching Employees to Become Influential Leaders
July 31, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.36 MBSend us a Text Message. One of the most valuable things we can do as leaders is to position people within our own teams to be what I call influential or internal leaders. Now, just for our own definition, internal leaders or influential leaders are those people who don't have the title yet can help you lead the team. Now, let me give you a really fundamental example. Years ago, I was working with a number of branch managers at one of our client sites at a credit union. And one of the manage...
Building Trust Is Tough! Coaching Trust is Tough!
July 11, 2022 11:00 - 8 minutes - 6 MBSend us a Text Message. There are specific things people MUST do to develop and maintain trust within organizations: Go to the source Avoid sharing with non-sources, people who are not involved (essentially do not gossip) Be transparent and honest Provide factual insight versus merely sharing feeling s (emotional interpretation) Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leaders can assist short targeted 7 to 21 day programs to c...
Do NOT Leave Constructive Feedback By Itself
July 08, 2022 10:00 - 5 minutes - 3.84 MBSend us a Text Message. The key to feedback is to give it so someone receives it openly and professionally and puts it into strategic use. One of the best things that you can do is to ask questions after providing feedback. For the sake of this article, we'll assume the feedback is constructive in nature. And here are five questions you could ask to create greater ownership of feedback. Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leaders can ...
That Poor Little Leaguer (Parent Feedback is Hard to Listen To)
July 02, 2022 11:00 - 6 minutes - 4.64 MBSend us a Text Message. I went to go get some food for my wife and I at a very popular place where a lot of baseball teams go after they play. What I witnessed at the counter was a father giving his son some feedback on the game that was just played. As I sat a couple seats away, I quietly listened, not letting them know I was listening. The father began to tell his son he could not make the mistakes he was making during the game. He was mentioning things like striking out or dropping fly b...
Do NOT Show Up & Throw Up When Conversing With Staff
June 26, 2022 22:00 - 4 minutes - 3.35 MBSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leaders can assist short targeted 7 to 21 day programs to coach their employees without ANY of their own time to truly partner and assist in the coaching process. Get more info here: https://form.jotform.com/233504052497051 Checkout our Approachability & Coachability series where we use a webinar-based coaching approach to develop all employees to become approachable and coach...
Turn Your Leadership Training Upside Down!
June 13, 2022 21:00 - 9 minutes - 6.81 MBSend us a Text Message. What if we turned our leadership development program upside down? What if we looked at developing our organizational leadership skills and capacity from the bottom up, not from the top down? Let me explain. In the United States alone, we spend hundreds of millions of dollars every single year on top line management, middle management, down to frontline leadership to become better leaders. There is nothing wrong with that. Here's the challenge. We have a major percent...
Conversations Affect The Workplace
June 06, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 4.98 MBSend us a Text Message. First of all, realize one thing conversations are powerful! What we say and how we say it has a major impact whether fair or unfair. Let's look at how conversations can negatively affect the workplace The water cooler - gossip central. Come into to my office - uh oh what did I do wrong? So-and-so told me… - ahhh not going to the source always create issues. The emotional interpretation - people react emotionally versus rationally asking themselves what ca I lear...
Coaching Conversations Do Not Need to be Difficult With A Little Planning & Preparation
May 31, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 5.96 MBSend us a Text Message. Conversations are hard. The cool thing about what's happening in the training and development and talent world is that leaders and organizations are finally realizing coaching is not just something we'd like to do if we had time. It is now moved into an arena of, We Must Coach Our Employees. This requires leaders to have conversational ability, the ability to ask questions, to truly listen, to actively listen, and to cooperate in a process where somebody feels like s...
Coaching Conversations Do Not Need to be Difficult With A Little Planning & Preparation
May 31, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 5.86 MBConversations are hard. The cool thing about what's happening in the training and development and talent world is that leaders and organizations are finally realizing coaching is not just something we'd like to do if we had time. It is now moved into an arena of, We Must Coach Our Employees. This requires leaders to have conversational ability, the ability to ask questions, to truly listen, to actively listen, and to cooperate in a process where somebody feels like somebody is invested in th...
Why Bartenders Make Great Coaches
May 18, 2022 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.22 MBSend us a Text Message. Recently, I was conducting a workshop and one of my participants was an ex-bartender. She never hesitated to participate or offer her thoughts or converse with people or dare I say, role play. She's quick on her feet and really listens well during the workshop. I asked her where those skill sets came from. She said, I bartended for 15 years. As I thought about her response, I thought what a wonderful experience to be able to wait on people, not knowing what they're g...
Teach Employees To Receive Feedback on Their Terms
May 08, 2022 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.25 MBSend us a Text Message. You often hear the concept that feedback is a gift, and it truly is yet we cannot use that approach as some reactive way to facilitate a positive relationship with feedback when so often it is perceived as negative. A positive cadence of feedback structured by the recipient is the secret sauce. There is such a simple concept called WIIFT, what is in it for them. Recently I was teaching this concept to a bunch of individual contributors at a client of ours. I said th...
The Feedback 5 ... Improving Workplace Culture Through Creative Feedback
May 02, 2022 11:00 - 9 minutes - 6.3 MBThere are 5 actions of feedback a leader can use and this episode also teaches how to teach employees to get feedback on their terms. Feedback is a loaded issue and if carefully crafted from both end of delivery and reception workplace cultures and team will dramatically improve. Join Our LinkedIn Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/coaching-conversations-6886642999321862144/ If this episode intrigues you check out our Coaching Career Conversation Course: Click Here and thi...
The Feedback 5 ... Improving Workplace Culture Through Creative Feedback
May 02, 2022 11:00 - 9 minutes - 6.4 MBSend us a Text Message. There are 5 actions of feedback a leader can use and this episode also teaches how to teach employees to get feedback on their terms. Feedback is a loaded issue and if carefully crafted from both end of delivery and reception workplace cultures and team will dramatically improve. Join Our LinkedIn Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/coaching-conversations-6886642999321862144/ Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coa...
We Have It Wrong! The Missing Piece in Leadership Development
April 25, 2022 13:00 - 10 minutes - 6.96 MBSend us a Text Message. I think we have it wrong when it comes to developing leaders within our organizations. If leaders make up let's say 15% of the organization and we have 85% of the organization who needs to receive that leadership we need to cultivate the mindset and the reception of that 85% so the 15% can be heard and accepted. People go through high school and college never attending classes on how to seek and accept feedback thoughtfully and professionally. People go through ...
The Workplace Triangle
April 16, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 6.65 MBSend us a Text Message. The triangle of coaching is a very simple concept yet there are some unique attributes of each stage we encourage organizations to adopt. One of the most fundamental mistakes I think organizations make is we spend so much money on a top-down approach specifically teaching leaders how to lead their employees. When you think about a traditional organization of let's say 100 or 1000 people typically about 80% of the people are employees or individual contributors. This ...
The Workplace Triangle
April 16, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 6.54 MBThe triangle of coaching is a very simple concept yet there are some unique attributes of each stage we encourage organizations to adopt. One of the most fundamental mistakes I think organizations make is we spend so much money on a top-down approach specifically teaching leaders how to lead their employees. When you think about a traditional organization of let's say 100 or 1000 people typically about 80% of the people are employees or individual contributors. This is where the opportunity ...
The F10 Assessment ... Check It Out
April 08, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.42 MBSend us a Text Message. Feedback is a very tough subject for people. It is our contention here at Progress Coaching people dismiss or accept feedback based on their agreement germane to the feedback. What most people don't understand is feedback is not a literal thing yet it is also morphed in perception. When somebody provides an employee feedback such as you are coming off negative and the employees first responses no I'm not. They are taking it literally when in fact the leader is provid...
Employees: Seek Feedback ON YOUR TERMS!
March 27, 2022 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.54 MBSend us a Text Message. Feedback is a very tough subject for people. It is our contention here at Progress Coaching people dismiss or accept feedback based on their agreement germane to the feedback. What most people don't understand is feedback is not a literal thing yet it is also morphed in perception. When somebody provides an employee feedback such as you are coming off negative and the employees first responses no I'm not. They are taking it literally when in fact the leader is provid...
4 Conversations A NEW Manager Must Have
March 22, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 7.23 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode teaches 4 conversations every new manager not only has to have but has to have fluently and skillfully. The first 90 to 180 days of every new manager's position will be met with resistance, lack of support, and certainly excitement by becoming a new manager. Every new manager must become skilled at conversations because they will be challenged by peers, former peers, people with more experience, etc. This episode will teach how to have four very strategi...
The Goal of Feedback Is ...
March 19, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 7.5 MBSend us a Text Message. There are so many views on feedback and how people should perceive feedback. I saw a post that created different viewpoints from feedback as a gift to other viewpoints where people felt feedback was not a gift. I think the one thing that we often miss when it comes to feedback is that feedback is a choice to provide, and it is also a choice to accept. First, let us talk about the value of providing feedback. I go back over 38 years ago to my manager Martha Sheffi...
30 Day Perspective Coaching Challenge
March 14, 2022 11:00 - 9 minutes - 6.74 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode is all about Perspective. This podcast episode also challenges you to a 30 day challenge whereby you learn of a person's perspective 1 time daily. Checkout Our Resources: LinkedIn Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/coaching-conversations-6886642999321862144/ LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/ Our Everyday Coaching program (we teach everyday employees how to coach one another): https://form.jotform.com/22061400604...
Your Must Fight Fatigue
March 06, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes - 6.09 MBSend us a Text Message. If you or your co-workers or employees are tiered and fatigued doing nothing to counter those things will results in continuous fatigue. If some is tired going up a flight of stairs we typically say lets stop and rest concerned for the person. In reality the person needs to workout more so those stairs are not as difficult. We have to create counter measures to fatigue! Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leader...
Coaching is ALL About Emotional Intelligence
March 04, 2022 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.06 MBSend us a Text Message. I hope you enjoy this episode. As a certified EQi assessment practitioner I am still amazed at how EQi (emotional Intelligence) is at the forefront of all training, mentoring, and coaching challenges. If intrigued click here to find out about our EQi Assessment & Coaching Practice: https://form.jotform.com/220287252131042 Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leaders can assist short targeted 7 to 21 day programs...
Magnetic Coaching: Version Four
February 28, 2022 13:00 - 8 minutes - 6.18 MBSend us a Text Message. This version details four observations of how conversational skills or the lack there of can harm the workplace and relationships between people. The way we converse reveals our abilities and this episode teaches something called an emotional trigger. Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leaders can assist short targeted 7 to 21 day programs to coach their employees without ANY of their own time to truly partne...
Coaching Helps Fight Fatigue
February 26, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 7.06 MBSend us a Text Message. Many leaders continue to struggle with the thought of having coaching or even conversations virtually. The challenge is we must change our mindset their coaching is not something that is geographic quite frankly coaching virtually at times can have tremendous advantages. Virtual work is NOT the cause of fatigue, rather how we handle working virtually is our opportunity to fight fatigue. I was speaking with one of our clients that we directly coach, and she was shari...
Julie Winkle Guliano Uncovers Corporate Career Challenges With Innovative Approach
February 21, 2022 22:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBOne of the best interviews I have ever had. Julie has UNCOVERED The Secret sauce to Employee's Motivation based upon career Aspirations. Simply Brilliant. Her book is coming out in early March from ATD Press called Promotions Are SO Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive. Preview download Chapter : https://www.juliewinklegiulioni.com/book/promotions/ Contact Info: Julie Winkle Giulioni Author, Virtual /Live Keynote Presenter, Inc.'s Top 100 Leadership Speakers 81...
Julie Winkle Giullioni Uncovers Corporate Career Challenges With Innovative Approach
February 21, 2022 22:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBSend us a Text Message. One of the best interviews I have ever had. Julie has UNCOVERED The Secret sauce to Employee's Motivation based upon career Aspirations. Simply Brilliant. Her book is coming out in early March from ATD Press called Promotions Are SO Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive. Preview download Chapter : https://www.juliewinklegiulioni.com/book/promotions/ Contact Info: Julie Winkle Giulioni Author, Virtual /Live Keynote Presenter, Inc.'s Top 1...
Magnetic Coaching Part Three: The Mirror
February 14, 2022 12:00 - 8 minutes - 6.05 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode teaches THE #1 Thing every leader & coach must do to be successful ... Hold up the mirror so someone can see their true self. This requires conversations and coaching skills providing various perspectives so when someone successfully looks in the mirror they can take positive action to go to the next level. Here is a link to My EQi Assessment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GX1ar931KDo1kUDwmBJX-TAcubAwOdnH/view?usp=sharing If intrigued and want more...
Meet Paul Glover ... The NO BS Coach
February 10, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBSend us a Text Message. I love talking with this guy (misguided Chicago Bear Fan). His approach is fresh and much needed. If you are looking for an honest executive coach, I mean a really honest coach, who can take you to the next level you must listen to this episode. Contact Paul: [email protected] Website: www.PaulGloverCoaching.com Blog: https://paulglovercoaching.com/blog/ Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leader...
What a 14 Year Old Taught me About Empathy & Emotional Intelligence
January 31, 2022 15:00 - 6 minutes - 4.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Want to See My EQi Report: Click Here Also If willing to explore your own EQi or Your Team Lets Chat: Schedule Here Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leaders can assist short targeted 7 to 21 day programs to coach their employees without ANY of their own time to truly partner and assist in the coaching process. Get more info here: https://form.jotform.com/233504052497051 Checkout our Approachability & Coach...
What a 14 Year Old Taught me About Empathy & Emotional Intelleignce
January 31, 2022 15:00 - 6 minutes - 4.73 MBWant to See My EQi Report: Click Here Also If willing to explore your own EQi or Your Team Lets Chat: Schedule Here
Magnetic Coaching Part Two
January 26, 2022 14:00 - 7 minutes - 5.29 MBSend us a Text Message. Everyday we push people away or pull them in. Here are two stories that hopefully help you increase the strength of your magnetic coaching pulling people in for greater engagement and overall happiness. Coach Yourself Before You Start Each Day To be Magnetic Ask Yourself How Can You proactively Coach Your Team Ask Yourself How Will You React Positively to Make Someone's Day Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU wh...
Magnetic Coaching: Part One
January 10, 2022 13:00 - 8 minutes - 5.79 MBSend us a Text Message. Magnetic Coaching: Part One When you think about the effects of a magnet, it really has two effects. It either pulls things in or it repels them or pushes them away. Aren't people the same way? Think about a person that you met, that you were introduced to by a friend. Didn't you have an immediate impression of like, or dislike of that person? Now let us add some further context with a little bit of humor. Would it not be funny if somebody said, “so what did you ...
The Game of Coaching: Part Two
January 04, 2022 13:00 - 8 minutes - 6.07 MBSend us a Text Message. The game of coaching has changed. For so many years our major objection when collaborating with clients was organizations and their leaders saying they do not have time to coach. Here's The funny thing about that notion is coaching has really gravitated from it would be nice to do to now, we must do it. The caveat is that the game has changed. Let us take a basketball game. If a team is down by twenty points and they are playing a zone defense a good coach would ...
Coaching is a Game ... The Playing Field & Players Have Changed! Have You?
December 17, 2021 12:00 - 9 minutes - 6.53 MBSend us a Text Message. When we think about sports and we think about playing fields and players and leaders of teams couple things come to mind. If a coach were to go into a huddle during a game and look up at the scoreboard and say everybody we are down by 20 points but let's just keep doing the same thing what would the players think? Would they even wanna continue to play? Would they maybe even wanna switch teams? So think about the pandemic and how much our playing field has changed. W...
WOW ... Today's Employee Has Changed ... How Leadership Coaching Can Help
December 13, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutes - 7.24 MBSend us a Text Message. Today's employee has dramatically changed and we as leadership coaches must change with those changes. People are quitting without having their next job as well as people are quitting jobs for more money not thinking about long term decisions that are affected by such decisions. The pandemic has caused people to look at themselves and their careers dramatically differently. I would say a few years ago if we had a friend who was quitting a job without their next job i...
There Is NO Buy-In To Coaching !!! That Notion is Crap!
December 10, 2021 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.3 MBSend us a Text Message. I still hear from leaders this notion of buy in when it comes to coaching. Let me be very straightforward and candid- that's a load of BS! Let's look at this logically. If a manager does not have time to coach how the heck do they create more time when they need to interview and review resumes when someone leaves their organization? Coaching is a form of communication and leaders will typically communicate with their employees daily if not hourly so why not leverage ...
What A Winter Blizzard Taught Me About People
December 06, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.17 MBSend us a Text Message. Yesterday I drove in the middle of the winter Blizzard coming back from up north Wisconsin. Needless to say the weather was terrible and there were white out conditions and if you have never driven in such weather it can be extremely dangerous. One of the most interesting things that I noticed was a long single line behind me and in front of me. The left lane was open but not plowed so I thought it was very interesting that everybody conformed to the single line. I t...
Interview With Ben Murphy from Titus Talent Strategies
December 02, 2021 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.4 MBSend us a Text Message. As a former college football coach with over 15 years of experience in sales & recruiting, Ben Murphy, VP at Titus, is known for his innovative hiring & management approach. He helps educate the marketplace on how to think strategically to better identify, attract, hire, engage & retain top talent. Manage 4 Performance is a platform and methodology that delivers a clear path for coaching each employee in their role by regularly evaluating their skills, values, ...
2022: The Year of the Conversation
December 01, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.16 MBSend us a Text Message. It is imperative especially as things are changing so fast that leaders have conversations with their people. It's imperative that people have conversations with their peers. It's imperative that employees have conversations with upper level management. If there is ever been a time when we need to converse and truly understand one another and be in a position to help one another it will be 2022. This podcast episode talks about four fundamental conversation skills:...
Your Employee Has A Job Offer ... Oh What To Do
November 29, 2021 14:00 - 6 minutes - 4.32 MBSend us a Text Message. During this episode we're going to talk about short term thinking versus long term thinking. There are a number of jobs still out in the marketplace and people who are very short term thinkers will take jobs without really understanding their own career goals or motivations for the pursuit of short term financial gain. During this episode we will teach two different ways to have career coaching conversations that help offset this short thinking to help position organ...
My Employee Was Offered More Money ... What Do I Do?
November 17, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode is dedicated to The Great Resignation, specific to those who say, "my employees only care about money" and "other companies are calling my people and offering signing bonuses." This episode will teach specific strategies to help offset this challenging, dare I say scary trend. Good Luck! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you heard about our Talent Coaching Learning Series? This December, Progress ...
I Love My Boss, But I Quit (The Why of Coaching)
November 13, 2021 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.34 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode teaches a major transition occurring in the workplace. Historically people quit because of their direct relationship with their boss or manager when in fact now well people are quitting organizations due to their workplace flexibility policies. There is a major shift going on and it is prompting leaders to possess four fundamental attributes when it comes to their leadership: Proactive Schedule time with employees Leverage employees strengths Have...
How to Use Assessments to Coach
November 12, 2021 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.14 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode teaches the fundamentals of using assessments to coach. All too often we use the results to label and it cuts us off from conversations and deepening our understanding of one another. During this episode we will teach a coaching mapping methodology called QALMS (check out our article on Forbes on QALMS) (https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2020/09/01/coaching-resilience-using-the-qalms-method/?) QALMS Overview: Questions - builds clarific...
The 4 Pillars of a Coaching Workplace Culture
November 09, 2021 13:00 - 11 minutes - 7.65 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode teaches four pillars of what it takes to build and maintain positive workplace culture through coaching. A workplace culture is comprised of interactions and conversations between people and their interpretation of such conversations. The following four pillars will be discussed within this podcast: Conversation Skills Coaching Skills Measure Practice ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you h...
Linda Johnson Interview: Great Insight on D & I Topics
November 04, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBSend us a Text Message. I was thrilled to interview my friend Linda Johnson who possesses a willingness and skillset to tackle some of today's toughest issues. She is a master of tough conversations when it comes to helping leaders develop their skillsets with diversity and inclusion related topics. Linda Johnson LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindajohnsonleadership/ Linda's Website: https://lindajohnsonleadership.com/ ------------------------------------------------------...
How to Become Successfully Unemployed. Interview with Sabina Sulat
November 04, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBSend us a Text Message. MEET Sabina Sulat Creator and founder of Re: Working. A talented and innovative HR professional, Sabina Sulat has worked as a senior workplace advisor for multiple Fortune 500 companies, as well as for the federal government as a senior strategist. She now dedicates herself and her business to helping others rethink and rework unemployment as an opportunity for growth and learning. Her aspiration is to help others come out of the adversity of being unemployed more r...
There Are Two Things Leaders Need to Do TODAY to Retain Talent
October 26, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes - 5.53 MBSend us a Text Message. The greatest thing we can do today as leaders is to invest in your employees and to understand them potentially more deeply than we ever have. When we understand what motivates a person and we actually invest in that motivation talent retention and development will skyrocket. We can no longer have these ridiculous discussions about not having time to coach our employees because if we're not coaching and conversing and people leave we're ultimately using time to inter...
The Power of Self-Awareness
September 30, 2021 11:00 - 9 minutes - 6.22 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode teaches through a quick youth sports story how self-awareness can help our youth and employees in the workplace. Also checkout our 2022 Talent Development Workshop Series: https://www.salesprogress.com/talent-coaching-2022 Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leaders can assist short targeted 7 to 21 day programs to coach their employees without ANY of their own time to truly partner and assist in ...
Let's Get Back to Work
September 17, 2021 12:00 - 9 minutes - 6.85 MBSend us a Text Message. The pandemic has rocked many people and companies. There is no getting around the fact times have been touch for people and certain industries. With that being said ... we need to also provide due attention to a simple concept "A Good Day's Work" I Hope This Helps! Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leaders can assist short targeted 7 t...