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Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 cr...

Send us Fan Mail 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'...

Send us Fan Mail 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....

Send us Fan Mail 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 inHRa...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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&ap...

Send us Fan Mail 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 h...

Send us Fan Mail 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 hones...

Send us Fan Mail 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 ------------...

Send us Fan Mail 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: info@intelligentconversations.com...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast reveals three unique stories of what we can do to WOW our customers. I often think about WOW as an acronym W onderful O pportunities to W in! 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 t...

Send us Fan Mail 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 conversation...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Yo...

Send us Fan Mail This past weekend I received a number of phone calls from parents as it was tryout weekend for boys and girls volleyball in the state of Wisconsin. I'm still amazed that some parents feel that the process or the decision that resulted in the child not making a team was somehow unfair or personal. One such parent I shared a thought with and that was "what do you think is...

Send us Fan Mail This 20 minute lesson teaches multiple strategies to adapt to the new world of selling virtually as well as leveraging video platforms along with how to coach to those changes successfully. There's so many opportunities right now the New World provides sales teams.  It is absolutely imperative sales people and more importantly sales leaders drive those elements of change succ...

Send us Fan Mail Teamwork and Leadership are learned behaviors. When kids go to high school and ultimately college that's an eight year time span typically where they then enter the workforce. With that being said, how many of these kids are really taught what it's like to be in the workplace and act in alignment of being a great teammate and supportive of leadership? I'm not sure o...

Send us Fan Mail Virtual selling provides organizations one of the greatest opportunities of our lifetime. It now only drives the opportunity for sales coaching and team development, it also provides insight to something that most sales organizations and people struggle to deal with. During this episode we will teach you four strategies and reasons why virtual selling provides you a unique opportu...

Send us Fan Mail This episode teaches five sales coaching practices that are easy to implement and guaranteed to drive results. During this episode we will provide live examples of how to coach one with specific suggestions to support each component. There are those five areas: Sales Performance Coaching   Sales Performance Coaching   Sales Call Coaching   Peer to Peer Coaching   Sales  Practice C...

Send us Fan Mail This episode reveals a story or a two-step strategy was utilized to help with future leader become more self-aware. The two-step strategy use the following:   Third Party Question - the question get people to look at situations or experiences through the eyes of somebody else.   Reflection -when you facilitate the experience of reflecting you provide people an opportunity they typ...

Send us Fan Mail This 18 minute lesson will teach 5 things that affect one's ability to be coached. It is imperative that we understand there are two sized coaching, one who gives and who plays the role of coach, and one who receives and plays the role of coachee. So much money and time to start teaching leaders are coach we also have an opportunity to teach the recipient of their role and re...

Send us Fan Mail To help illustrate this episode here is a poll we did on linked - provides some unique insights: In a coaching relationship who is responsible for the success of the coaching outcome the Coach or Coachee (person being coached) ? Coach 100 %: 5% Coach 75 % - Coachee 25 %: 9% Both 50 % / 50 %: 52% Coachee 75 % - Coach 25 %: 34% Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW...

Send us Fan Mail This episode teaches specific strategies of maintaining a thoughtful cadence and pace helping the coaching process improve with 3 simple strategies. Note : checkout our new coaching community The Coaching Enthusiasts - here is our next informational webcast on this innovative approach to helping leaders become great workplace coaches: November 17th @ 1:00 om cst: Register: click h...

Send us Fan Mail Here are the two polls we did on Linkedin that inspired this podcast: If leaders were taught / retrained how to provide strength-based & constructive feedback what would the effect be on the workplace culture? You can see how people vote.  Would be tremendously helpful 79% It would be helpful 15% Somewhat helpful 3% Would have little impact 3% 456 votes •     If employees were...

Send us Fan Mail It's so interesting we provide training and support for this providing coaching yet we seem to lose sight of the fact people receiving coaching & feedback also need to be trained & supported in their reception. What a great opportunity. Here are two charts we did  from polls on linkedin that are quite revealing: Poll # 1 : If employees were taught how to accept feedba...