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 30, 2021
- 1 min
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 22, 2021
- 1 min
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 5, 2021
- 1 min
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 12, 2021
- 1 min
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 21, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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 8, 2020
- 2 min
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 7, 2020
- 1 min
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 6, 2020
- 1 min
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 5, 2020
- 2 min
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 4, 2020
- 1 min
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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