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Think like a coach: insights

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Designed to help HR and L&D leaders investing in management training, each email explores simple yet powerful coaching techniques that managers can weave into everyday conversations—boosting team performance, accountability, and engagement.

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July 9, 2023

Presenting tips part 1: Breathing

A diagram of the Coaching Triangle. Attention is at the top in an organise circle. The purpose of this is so your team member feels you’re interested in what they have to say. Then there are two options. To the left in a green circle is tell me more. The purpose of asking this is so your team member feels you care. On the right is a green circle with summarise. The purpose of this is so your team member feels heard.
July 2, 2023

The majority of global workers are disengaged but managers can do something about it

A diagram illustrating the relationship described in the text between me and Otto.
June 25, 2023

Why is your relationship with your nemesis so bad?

A picture of my desk illustrating the example. There is a computer mouse on the left and a wooden elephant that holds spectacles on the right.
June 18, 2023

How to understand your nemesis

A communication map that shows me in the middle of the page with other bubbles representing the vendor, project executive, IT, my manager and head of department A close to me and a bubble for the Department A Representative in the far top left corner.
June 11, 2023

A visual self-coaching tool

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June 4, 2023

What nature tell us about growth

Jude Sclater
May 30, 2023

The paradoxical theory of change

Caution written in yellow paint on the ground. You can see the shoes of the person standing in front of the word at the bottom of the image.
May 14, 2023

Be wary of a coach that …

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April 30, 2023

Appreciation works better than criticism

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April 24, 2023

What to do when you're stuck between two options

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April 16, 2023

Reframe negative thinking by using 'yet'

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March 5, 2023

How to ask your team for feedback

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February 19, 2023

What's on your 'don't do' list?

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January 29, 2023

What is a joy jar and why should you have one?

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October 16, 2022

Coaching is not thinking together

October 2, 2022

When it comes to employee performance, do you have to see it, to believe it?