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Brian Watkins
Mar 16, 20221 min read
Make Everyone a Coach
Every organization wastes their most valuable development resource - the team. The simple fact is that everyone in the org has knowledge...
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Brian Watkins
Aug 31, 20211 min read
Identify Bad Managers
Companies spend billions of dollars on leadership and management training a year. All with the intention of making managers better. It...
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Brian Watkins
Jun 23, 20211 min read
Communicate a Development Path for High Potentials
Companies like to make a big deal about identifying and developing "high potential" employees. These are the people that the company...
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Brian Watkins
May 6, 20211 min read
Everyone Needs a Coach
Having been playing and watching sports all my life, the idea of a coach was normal. It didn't matter how experienced you were, a coach...
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Brian Watkins
Apr 13, 20211 min read
Write Down Your Coaching Info
Here is an exercise I recommend: Writing down your coaching info. I recommend doing this once a month, but it should be at least once a...
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Brian Watkins
Mar 22, 20212 min read
Great Coaches Ask Questions
Coaching is a balance between sharing what you know (telling) and guiding the individual to learn things on their own. This requires the...
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Brian Watkins
Mar 8, 20212 min read
When Does Feedback Turn Into Coaching?
While there can be a great deal of overlap, feedback and coaching are different things. They both strive to change behavior. To me, the...
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Brian Watkins
Feb 8, 20212 min read
The Best Type of Coach
As a manager, you should have a coach when you learn a new skill and you should set the expectation that your team will have coaches when...
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Brian Watkins
Oct 9, 20202 min read
The Hardest Part of Coaching
Coaching employees, in my opinion, is not only incredibly effective, but it is fun. The ability to share my knowledge with them and help...
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Brian Watkins
Oct 8, 20201 min read
Model Using a Coach
I’ve said it many times, the best way to teach a concept is to model it. I learned early in my career that people listen to what you say,...
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Brian Watkins
Oct 7, 20201 min read
Working with Younger Generations
Coaching is something that the younger generations in the workforce expect. Millennials started this trend and it continues to grow with...
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Brian Watkins
Oct 6, 20202 min read
Why is Coaching More Important Today
Coaching was always important. Great managers in the past have always done coaching, whether it was formally or informally. The...
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Brian Watkins
Oct 5, 20201 min read
Your Employee Wants to be Coached
I read an article last year that summarized the results of a study - essentially, workers preferred to communicate with AI instead of...
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