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Send us Fan Mail What I'm about to share is not going to be very popular. What I'm about to share is not going to be well received by everybody. The other day, I was talking to somebody that works at a manufacturing plant, and this person was a friend of a friend and the friend had asked me to speak to him and talk to him about his performance. I said, sure, but I said, I don't know...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 and Innovat...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books . These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with th...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 inte...

Send us Fan Mail 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 questi...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 tea...

Send us Fan Mail 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-688664299932...

Send us Fan Mail 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 cla...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 employe...

Send us Fan Mail 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 employe...

Send us Fan Mail 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 pe...

Send us Fan Mail 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 th...

Send us Fan Mail 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:  L inkedIn Newsletter : https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/coaching-conversations-6886642999321862144/   LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/  Our Everyday Coaching program...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 NE...

Send us Fan Mail 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 and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books . These book...

Send us Fan Mail 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 fa...

Send us Fan Mail 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/ Co...

Send us Fan Mail 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.googl...