The Coaching School
Welcome to The Coaching School—the podcast where leadership development is taught like a cooking school.
We've reimagined our long-running Coaching Conversations podcast into a practical, engaging learning experience designed to help leaders become exceptional coaches.
At The Coaching School, we believe coaching isn't a personality trait—it's a skill that can be learned, practiced, and mastered.
Every episode gives you another ingredient, another recipe, or another secret sauce you can immediately use to develop your people.
Our Coaching Ingredients are the different types of coaching every leader should know—from one-on-one coaching and group coaching to peer coaching, observational coaching, career coaching, self-coaching, and AI-assisted coaching.
Our Coaching Recipes combine those ingredients into proven, step-by-step approaches for real workplace challenges. Whether you're coaching accountability, motivation, communication, teamwork, difficult attitudes, performance improvement, emotional intelligence, or career development, we'll show you exactly how to structure the conversation.
Then we share the Secret Sauces—the small coaching techniques that create extraordinary results. You'll discover powerful questions, accountability strategies, learning projects, recognition techniques, feedback models, motivational approaches, and practical coaching habits that transform ordinary conversations into meaningful moments of growth.
Every episode is designed to be practical, actionable, and easy to apply. Our goal is simple: help leaders feel more confident coaching their employees while helping employees feel great about getting better.
Whether you're a new supervisor, an experienced executive, an HR professional, a coach, or someone passionate about developing people, The Coaching School will provide you with the tools, frameworks, and confidence to coach more effectively.
So grab your notebook, pull up a chair in our coaching kitchen, and let's start cooking up stronger leaders, stronger teams, and stronger workplace cultures.
The Coaching School—where great leaders learn the recipes that help people grow.
The Coaching School
What Does a Great Workplace Coach Do Daily?
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What is the life of a great coach? Great coaches have a record and a set of notes focusing on each employee on their team. With that being said, they focus daily on three main things.
1) First, they plan their positives. They look for the good things. They realize the things that people have done extremely well and they are focused on calling them into the office and praising them for a specific job well done.
2) Second, they attend one to two coaching sessions of no greater than 15 minutes in length. This positions them to drive targeted areas of performance for every employee.
3) Last, they bring the team together to praise and challenge. First, they lead with two to three praises of the things the team is doing extremely well and that one area where there is still an incredible opportunity to improve. These three things seem amazingly simple, but they go against the grain of what most people are conditioned to do and that's to fix and correct the things that we see are wrong. There is nothing wrong with doing those things yet, we cannot do those solely on their own merit without the positives, because it will destroy trust and the ability for the team to think positively about leadership.
The goal of a coach is to help people feel good about getting better. This is done by focusing on positives, attending one to two sessions a day and praising and challenging the team on a daily basis. This will lead to greater trust and cooperation among all team members. A great coach also uses proper language. Here are the five key words every coach should use:
· We – we is an inclusive and cooperative word
· Share – nice word that present a friendly way to disseminate feedback or insight
· Opportunity – it is the WIIFT, what is in for the person being coached.
· Perspective – neutral term that prevents emotional interpretation
· Observation – neutral term that prevents emotional interpretation
Being a great coaching daily requires proactive commitment to review positives and leverage them. A great coach uses proper language. A great coach is relentlessly persistent in raising every up every minute he or she possibly can. This is not to say we should ignore things that need to be addresses, rather this commitment will build trust in people being coached to accept the tough feedback.
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Welcome to Coaching Conversations
We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application a
Coaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help:
We provide many styles of speaking services:
- We provide virtual keynotes
- We specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)
- We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talk
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