Coaching Conversations in 2025
Coaching Conversations with Tim Hagen, where we teach leaders and managers how to coach their employees. This is the ideal podcast for leaders, managers, and aspiring leaders to improve their coaching and leadership skills to create a more positive coaching culture within their teams.
In 2025, we're doing weekly podcasts on various coaching topics and strategies that will rotate throughout the month, as opposed to 2024 where the weekly episodes featured a monthly theme. Coaching Conversations will continue to have four episodes per month and we're going to sprinkle in masterclasses, which will be lengthier, workshop-style formats.
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Coaching Conversations in 2025
Taking Control: A Journey to Career Ownership and Progression
We'll also be revisiting Mark's story from our previous episodes, as he navigates his way into the marketing and data analytics field. Using Mark's example, we introduce 'learning projects for accountability,' a powerful tool to keep you focused and accountable between coaching sessions. We also revisit two of our previously discussed coaching strategies - whiteboard and goal-based coaching - and explain how they can help you uncover the skills required for your desired career. So, quit waiting around and take charge of your own career progression. Listen in, as we uncover the strategies to navigate you towards your professional aspirations.
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Once you have established where somebody wants to go, what their goal is, what their career aspirations are, their ideal destination, you know we have to use coaching to drive it. You know people are creatures of habit and even though people understand their motivation and where they want to go, the fact of the matter is some people can be complacent, they can be lazy, yet sometimes we, as coaches, have to help them up that hill. And they have to understand what they need to own, and that's their career. Often employees get lulled into. Well, the company is responsible for training me. Yes, that's true as it relates to the job, but it is certainly not true in terms of your personal career. That is owned by each and every one of us. So how do we make sure that we create continuity and consistency when coaching? We teach something called learning projects for accountability In between coaching sessions.
Speaker 1:If I use our prior character from prior episodes, mark, he wants to go into marketing and data analytics. He doesn't want to be a people leader. We've bridged the gap. He needs to understand more about analytics and data. The learning project could be, mark, every week I want you to come in and share two new things you learned about that ideal destination, that ideal job specific to what you want to accomplish.
Speaker 1:And what happens is, when Mark comes in, he's driving the conversation. He's driving the ownership, as he should, of his own career, and once you have a learning project, it's tied to the area that you're coaching to. It's actually completed by the person between sessions, so it starts and ends every coaching session, yet it's completed between coaching sessions, and what that does is it creates consistency, continuity and application of the gaps that need to be addressed, exercised, learned to go from the present state to the ideal state. So, going back to prior episodes, we talked about whiteboard coaching, and goal-based coaching will help uncover the things that are needed for people to achieve what they're trying to achieve as it relates to their goal. So don't just have conversations. Create a bridge between conversations, and that's where learning projects will serve you well.