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Key Frameworks for Coaching Conversations
I've been writing about why more managers don't use coaching skills to guide and develop their people. Some managers don't have clear framework for initiating coaching conversations. Here are two popular models that are easy to follow. GROW Model One of the original...
Why Managers Don’t Use Coaching Skills
In spite of a lot of coach skills training for managers, not many are actually initiating coaching conversations with people. There are some misconceptions and barriers that stop them, from what I've observed in my work. According to John H. Zenger and Kathleen...
The Manager-Fixer vs. the Manager-Coach
I've been thinking about why more managers don't use coaching skills to grow their people. While most have had coach training, I've observed that coaching conversations are the exception not the rule. After coach training, once back in the office, managers revert to...
The Need for Managers with Coaching Skills
Managers who effectively harness coaching skills reap multiple benefits. Their employees are more committed, willing to put in greater effort and are less likely to leave. Coaching skills have a huge impact and significantly affect people and profits within...
To Make Change Last… You Need to Follow-up
The tools for making any behavioural change aren't complicated, but they do have to include a system for follow-up if you want change to last. The simplest way to follow-up is to answer a list of daily questions with a friend or coach. This allows you to track...
Why is Behavioural Change so Hard?
Even when we will reap huge benefits by changing habits, we are geniuses at inventing reasons to avoid change. We have mental urges to maintain the status quo. We fall back on a set of beliefs that triggers denial, resistance, and self-delusion. Executive coach...
How do you Make Behavioural Changes Last?
What's the most significant behavioural change you've made as an adult? For some, it's quitting smoking or drinking, or making healthy changes in eating and exercising. For others, it's becoming a better listener, a more effective manager, or a nicer partner or...
Leadership Tips for Sparking Passion
These recent days I've been writing about the elusiveness of passion at work [How Great Leaders Ignite Passion and Performance • Passion Starts with Purpose • Hire for Passion • Recognize and Reinforce Passion • Linking Passion to Performance], and how important it is...
Linking Passion to Performance
When leaders encourage a culture in which employees take psychological ownership, even average employees can perform at high levels. Purpose and passion create meaning and excitement at work. You achieve workplace engagement when employees apply this energy to...
Hire for Passion
The quickest way to infuse passion and high performance into a company culture is to hire for it in the first place. But how do you hire for passion? Know anyone who’s so passionate about his work that he has a company logo tattooed somewhere on his body? Admittedly,...
Passion Starts with Purpose
I've been thinking a lot about what it is that ignites passion and high performance in companies where I coach. What comes to mind is the message of Simon Sinek: If you haven’t clearly articulated the “why” of your business, people will struggle to be engaged in the...
How Great Leaders Ignite Passion and Performance
Look at today’s top-performing companies, and you’ll inevitably find a high degree of employee engagement. From front line workers to CEOs, people are passionate about their companies’ purpose, values and mission. Most workers are motivated to give their best and...
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