Coaching Conversations in 2024

What is a Good Leadership Conversation?

Send us a Text Message. One of the strongest things that's come out of the pandemic is the reflection organizations are having on the treatment of their employees. How we talk to our employees, how we converse with our employees through  communication. We are in the midst of four pretty major projects right now with clients and one of the top things that people bring up to us all the time is communication. During this podcast episode we narrate an actual conversation with a leader who did n...

Critical Leadership Skill: Conversational Navigation Excellence

Send us a Text Message. This episode teaches some fundamental conversational models that help with typical day to day leadership challenges that require Conversational Navigation Excellence. Checkout our Why Leadership Conversations Matter: https://progress-coaching-academy.thinkific.com/courses/why-conversations-matter-2021 * We provide four 1 on 1 sessions practicing conversation models that lead to greater engagement and team cooperation.  Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have c...

3 Things You MUST Do to Train & Coach NEW Manager Leaders

Send us a Text Message. This episode teaches 3 fundamental strategies new manager leaders can use to launch their leadership careers successfully. This episode will teach those strategies and how to implement them. For More Information on Our NEW Manager Training Coaching Program Click Here: https://form.jotform.com/212093523033040 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 thei...

6 Mistakes Leaders Make That Destroy Trust With Their Teams and How to Avoid It

Send us a Text Message. This episode details 6 typical mistakes leaders make that destroy TRUST based upon conversational coaching skills:  Time  Interruptions  But  Non-Verbal Discord  Assumptively Reacting  Truth Expectations Checkout Out Our NEW Coaching PODs Program: https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/criZXMVigdJ 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 emplo...

Interview with Thane Bellamo: Creating Teamwork by Providing Valuable Work ... Brilliant Insight

Send us a Text Message. This podcast episode is about teamwork and L & D expert Thane Bellamo shares his insight on teamwork. His insight is unique and not the traditional team  development stuff. he shares strategies about what leaders can do to facilitate stronger teamwork by understanding the value of meaningful work. Thane's book  Teamwork in Talent Management (if you want teamwork, then give the team work) comes out later this summer and get on his mailing list for this book: https://...

Leaders Need Conversational Navigation

Send us a Text Message. This episode teaches a very simple concept called conversational navigation. It requires leaders and even non leaders to enter conversations willing to explore versus steering someone to get to a place that they may want that person to get to. Think about the most simplistic example a person with a negative attitude. Our destination is we want this person to be more upbeat and positive and we want them to get there quickly yet we have to ask ourselves some fundamenta...

Do We Really Know Each Other in Our Workplaces

Send us a Text Message. This episode is about really understanding the value of what we call "Foundational Relationships". It depicts a connection beyond the transactional or work-driven interaction whereby people know about one another in terms of interests and passions. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition ...

Do We Really Know Each Other in Our Workplaces

This episode is about really understanding the value of what we call "Foundational Relationships". It depicts a connection beyond the transactional or work-driven interaction whereby people know about one another in terms of interests and passions. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group c...

How to Have a Quality Career Development Conversation

Send us a Text Message. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t end there! Our Coaching Enthusiast Community offers a platform for managers, training leaders, and HR professionals to swap stories, acc...

Conversational Discord is an Organizational Disease

Send us a Text Message. Let me introduce you to a new concept called Conversational Discord. Conversational Discord is when people have an argument or a misunderstanding that leads to greater difficulty within an organization. There are four stages to Conversational Discord:   1.       Misinterpretation- misinterpretation is when somebody is either not listening or emotionally reacting which leads to a lack of understanding or misinterpretation of the message or the person. 2.       Labe...

Amazon Is NOT Evil, They Just Require a Hard Day's Work

Send us a Text Message. This is really a podcast about a Hard Day's Work! Let get back to putting in a hard day's work while maintaining sensitivity & caring in the workplace. They do NOT have to be exclusive from one another. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide u...

Coaching to Transformation

Send us a Text Message. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t end there! Our Coaching Enthusiast Community offers a platform for managers, training leaders, and HR professionals to swap stories, acc...

Coaching Resistors to Change

Send us a Text Message. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t end there! Our Coaching Enthusiast Community offers a platform for managers, training leaders, and HR professionals to swap stories, acc...

Coaching to Transformation

Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t end there! Our Coaching Enthusiast Community offers a platform for managers, training leaders, and HR professionals to swap stories, access live events, exclusiv...

Proactive Coaching of an Influential Leader for Change

How You feel Does Not Equal Reality

Send us a Text Message. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t end there! Our Coaching Enthusiast Community offers a platform for managers, training leaders, and HR professionals to swap stories, acc...

Coaching WIth Empathy & Reality

Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t end there! Our Coaching Enthusiast Community offers a platform for managers, training leaders, and HR professionals to swap stories, access live events, exclusiv...

Coaching With Empathy & Reality

Send us a Text Message. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t end there! Our Coaching Enthusiast Community offers a platform for managers, training leaders, and HR professionals to swap stories, acc...

The LACK Feedback System Will Empower Your People

Send us a Text Message. The key to this feedback system is to manifest everything in the discussion around the role of altering perception even though we are probably helping people to deal with their own reality. The LACK feedback system is about positioning people to seek feedback of where they have opportunities to improve the perception they give off as teammates or whatever the subject matter is that you would like them to address. We use LACK as a tool as most people LACK the ability ...

Feedback Paradise DOES Exist

Send us a Text Message. This episode teaches a two step strategy to build greater delivery and acceptance of feedback. While feedback is not coaching by itself it is a valuable component and should be utilized as a strategy and not something that has to be done. During this podcast episode you're going to learn of some very specific strategies to build greater acceptance of feedback while positioning those people who provide feedback strategic initiatives they can utilize that helped create...

3 Questions That Build Self-Awareness & Action

Send us a Text Message. The number one objective of any coaching initiative should be first to build awareness. Most people, it's been estimated up to 90% of people, lacks self-awareness. Assuming this percentage is correct why would anyone in their right mind think for a second just telling someone what to do is going to be well received. The key to building self-awareness is to provide people questions that trigger different perspectives so they can successfully and thoughtfully look at t...

3 Questions That Build Self-Awareness & Action

The number one objective of any coaching initiative should be first to build awareness. Most people, it's been estimated up to 90% of people, lacks self-awareness. Assuming this percentage is correct why would anyone in their right mind think for a second just telling someone what to do is going to be well received. The key to building self-awareness is to provide people questions that trigger different perspectives so they can successfully and thoughtfully look at themselves. This will lead...

3 Strategies for First Time Managers to Lead & Coach

Send us a Text Message. This episode is dedicated to three specific strategies for new managers to start their leadership careers off on the right foot.  Good Luck! Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It d...

Inside Sales Is Growing

Send us a Text Message. This episode teaches how the Inside Sales World is changing and how coaching can drive its (your) success! Let us know your feedback! Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t e...

The Reverse Sales Coaching Model Builds Ability & Confidence

This episode would teach a very specific methodology that reverses the normal trend towards identifying a sales process and the application of sales coaching to that process. I think at a minimum you will find very interesting and innovative. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coachin...

The Reverse Sales Coaching Model Builds Ability & Confidence

Send us a Text Message. This episode would teach a very specific methodology that reverses the normal trend towards identifying a sales process and the application of sales coaching to that process. I think at a minimum you will find very interesting and innovative. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one...

The MISSING Ingredient in Workplace Cultures Today

Send us a Text Message. One of the main ingredients in the workplace that needs to be cultivated is our ability to accept coaching and feedback professionally and thoughtfully. Most people have never been taught how to seek and or accept feedback; therefore, a typical reaction in the workplace to feedback is whether people agree or disagree with the feedback. This leads to dangerous interactions in the workplace when in fact the role of accepting feedback isn't to agree or disagree, rather ...

Trace Your Conversations ... WOW Scary

Send us a Text Message. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t end there! Our Coaching Enthusiast Community offers a platform for managers, training leaders, and HR professionals to swap stories, acc...

The Most Politically Incorrect Podcast Episode About Leadership

Send us a Text Message. This episode is not about political views rather using politics as a frame of reference to understand the merits of leadership in the ability to converse with other people. If intrigued ask us about your Why Leadership Conversations Matter Training Series: [email protected]  Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of tra...

Attention Leaders! Help Your Employees Claim Their FAME

Send us a Text Message. I recently heard in a group discussion that people must communicate with one another and employees must share upward to their direct leaders their feelings and frustrations. Somebody made the comment it's all about culture and I actually somewhat disagree with that. Conversations create cultures and we have to fuel employees minds positively as well as position leaders to learn how to coach and help their employees feel good about getting better. This episode reveals...

Workplace Cultures Require Proactive "Positive" Coaching

Send us a Text Message. Often, organizations drive improvement in their workplace cultures reactively. Organizations will create programs or initiatives that react to marketplace conditions such as industries that are in decline or maybe even in reaction to a pandemic crisis. At the core of every organization should be leaders across the board proactively providing positivity to each and every one of their team members. Here are some basic suggestions on how every leader can do this:  Call...

Attention Employees: CLAIM your FAME

Send us a Text Message. This episode takes a very unique look at the talent development field. The objective of this podcast is to provide insight as to what organizations can do to develop communities of people that are accepting of feedback and coaching. Organizations spend millions of dollars in leadership training; whereas, the missing piece might be training and coaching employees from a foundational perspective. What if employees were taught how to develop a positive and professional ...

Ben White Interview: Hiring & Recruiting Strategies for Talent Development in 2021

Send us a Text Message.  This podcast episode is an interview with Ben White one of the leaders at Titus Talent Strategies. Ben and I discuss the latest trends in talent development and recruiting from both the hiring and candidate perspectives. He shares very interesting strategies that both the organization and job seekers can utilize during these very awkward times. Reach Out To Ben With Questions or Help You May Need: [email protected] Who is Titus:  https://www.titustalent.co...

Why Leadership Conversations Matter Now More Than Ever

Send us a Text Message. Leaders must possess the ability to navigate conversations now more than ever. We need people to perform yet at the same time we need people to know we care and that we truly are invested in their well-being. This is easier said than done. Organizations and leaders need to invest in their conversational skill development. Think about an employee who is not performing well and maybe eight other employees who are performing well and you need to address that one employe...

The New Sales Coaching Opportunity with Tim Hagen

Send us a Text Message. 2021 presents a unique sales opportunity every leader can take advantage of. This episode will take you into this opportunity by revealing what sales leaders can do to drive sales. The NEW world of selling is both virtual and in-person so coaching requirements have changed and dare I say improved. Let us know your thoughts. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversation...

2021 ... Year of Conversational Excellence

As we enter 2021 we need our employees to come through for us and now more than ever. With that being said we have to be sensitive and empathetic while driving continuous change that will be thrust upon organizations. This requires conversational excellence and it is incumbent upon leaders to drive change positively while maintaining empathy and sensitivity. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become co...

2021 ... Year of Conversational Excellence

Send us a Text Message. As we enter 2021 we need our employees to come through for us and now more than ever. With that being said we have to be sensitive and empathetic while driving continuous change that will be thrust upon organizations. This requires conversational excellence and it is incumbent upon leaders to drive change positively while maintaining empathy and sensitivity. Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by position...

Subcultures Drive Workplace Cultures (22 Minute Master lesson)

Send us a Text Message. Every organization has subcultures. Subcultures either promote or undermine what leaders want in terms of their desired workplace cultures. Guaranteed, every organization will have groups that are negative and are opinionated as well as those who positively want to influence and everything in between. There are some simple rules in this 22 minute podcast master lesson of how to create a positive workplace culture by driving subcultures. Progress Coaching has been he...

In 2021 .. It's Time To Work Our Ass Off!

Send us a Text Message. I know this episode is going to potentially upset some people. The goal of this is to draw attention to an area I don't think we talk enough about and that is putting in a good day's work and really working hard. While the world has turned sideways I am all for addressing mental health and showing empathy and providing people an avenue for work life balance . I don't think those things should be provided at the expense of employees understanding our current situation...

I Almost Did Not Practice What I Preach ...

Send us a Text Message. I hope this episode helps you so you can help other people! Progress Coaching has been helping organizations leverage the power of coaching for over 25 years by positioning managers to become conversational leaders. We offer a number of training reinforcement courses, in addition to one-on-one and group coaching, to provide unique support options tailored to YOUR company’s needs. It doesn’t end there! Our Coaching Enthusiast Community offers a platform for managers...

Checkout IntHRaction

Send us a Text Message. This episode is a quick review of a great platform I just recently saw called intHRaction.it measures workplaces using a very unique strategy of peer based feedback that positions the organization to build its culture , provide leaders opportunity to coach to reality, and ultimately position the employee to grow and become embedded in the organization's plans.  Checkout inHRaction: https://www.inthraction.com/ Progress Coaching has been helping organizations levera...

Allego is Changing The Sales Enablement World

Send us a Text Message. This interview with Tim Kasida Strategic Partnership Executive at Allego. Tim has over 25 years of experience growing businesses through sales, alliance management and sales leadership positions at early stage and established software companies. Tim performed critical sales functions through IPOs at Exchange Applications and Unica Corporation.  At Allego Tim runs a team focused on sales to and through Sales Training & Sales Optimization Services companies.  Tim gradu...

Helping Employees Become Self-Aware ... One Conversation At A Time

Send us a Text Message. Helping employees to look at themselves is an art and a conversational coaching craft we all as leaders have an opportunity to improve and practice. No employee will come into your office and share with you that they have a negative attitude or they lack motivation or they're simply not engaged and they just wanted to provide you that general information. I'm sure you're laughing at the prior sentence yet think about it wouldn't that be great if people actually did t...

Quit Training Managers To Coach ...

Send us a Text Message. This podcast episode will teach the 5 tenants of what it takes to develop high-performing leadership coaches within your organization. They are as follows:  Train with the purpose  Support against real-world challenges  Reinforce training with more training  Practice and Practice  Coach the leader to apply coaching  If you would like to learn about our five step approach to help your leaders become great coaches contact us and schedule a chat: https://calendly....

My Friend Got Fired ... Welcome to Self-Awareness

Send us a Text Message. This short story depicts the value of self-awareness and coaching. Recently, a friend/business associate get fired from his job. As I asked him what happened, and he went on a tirade of why it was completely unfair and how his boss was a jerk. As the conversation continued, I realized one thing like most people who have been in that predicament very few people are ever truly honest with themselves and self-aware. Most bosses hate firing people; therefore, it begs the...

Master Lesson: The 4 Areas Employees Need Help to Become Superstars (Master Lesson)

Send us a Text Message. This episode teaches four fundamental areas employees need to improve and with that improvement will help workplace cultures become more engaged and positive. This master lesson will teach the four areas and what leaders can do to facilitate positive improvement. For More Information on Coaching Employees to Superstar Status schedule a time to chat with me: click here --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

NEW Trends in Sales & Sales Management: Interview With Mike Carroll from Intelligence Conversations: A MUST Listen

Send us a Text Message. This 25 minute interview with Mike Carroll from Intelligent Conversations will reveal some of the trends and things leaders need to do during  new virtual selling  times. About Mike: Are you dealing with flat revenue, margin erosion and sales hiring mistakes? If you’re ready to fully commit to transforming your sales team - I can help! Contact me: [email protected]. MY STORY With more than 27 years of sales and marketing experience, I learned a lo...

WOW Your Customers During This Time ... They Will Love It!

Send us a Text Message. This podcast reveals three unique stories of what we can do to WOW our customers. I often think about WOW as an acronym Wonderful Opportunities to Win! This podcast episode will hopefully give you some creative ideas and thought processes to engage with customers differently to go above and beyond the call of duty to get people to walk away and ultimately say ... WOW! Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW service called Coach 2 YOU where leaders ...

What If We Traced Our Conversations ... Like A Virus?

Send us a Text Message. Conversations take on life forms. They become events. They become living breathing things that can spread much like a virus quickly and without prejudice harming people unnecessarily. This podcast is a parallel between conversations and certainly our current pandemic crisis. I realize this is a little bit risky and I don't want to offend anybody and I think about conversations much like a virus they can spread. The key question is if we traced our conversations would...

Interview with Chris Hokom Master Trainer & Certified Coach

Send us a Text Message. This episode is an interview with master trainer Chris Hokom. During the interview Chris will share his thoughts on the place both training and coaching together play in the workplace today especially during and after the pandemic crisis. This is a great interview for credit union leaders especially to listen to as Chris has a vast depth of experience in the credit union space. You can reach Chris at Morrison Morrell at the following: Email: chrishokom@morrisonmorr...