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.
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Coaching Conversations in 2025
Leadership Coaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Are you ready to enter the fascinating intersection of leadership coaching and artificial intelligence? This episode catapults you into the midst of a captivating debate - are leaders going to delegate their coaching responsibilities to AI platforms, or is the irreplaceable value of the traditional leader-subordinate relationship still paramount? Get ready to decrypt this intriguing conundrum with Progress Coaching, a front-runner in the field with over 31 years of experience.
As you journey through the episode, you'll gain insights into the significance of using a coaching framework like QALMS, highlighted in Forbes magazine, for ensuring consistency. You'll see how the language we use during coaching, what we say and how we say it, can profoundly impact an employee's response and overall performance. We'll also traverse the future landscape of employee appraisals and discuss the potential backlash if AI redefines these crucial end-of-year reviews. Gear up to explore the future of coaching, the role of AI, and the essential elements that leaders need to be conversationally prepared and performance-driven.
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The future of coaching has been a question that has come up probably more now than in the past 20 years. You know, for 31 years progress coaching has been working with organizations, teaching leaders how to coach their employees, and while it seemed to be this in the past at least it would be nice to do proposition it's really morphed into we have to coach our employees Now. The good news is leaders are more open to that notion now more than ever. Yet it begs the question AI is not coming. Ai is here. So when we're coaching and there's these alternatives, one of the big concerns is will leaders now off-put coaching to these AI platforms? Now let me make this very strong comment I love AI. I love what it's doing for us. I think AI coaching should be in the marketplace.
Speaker 1:Yet nothing replaces that leader to subordinate relationship. Nothing is more important than that leader subordinate relationship Having scheduled sessions, helping them achieve their career goals, understanding their strengths, having a conversation oh, by the way, observing the good things that they're doing. Ai is not going to observe and pull somebody aside, so the two can coexist. Yet it comes back to leaders must schedule time. Number one. Number two they must use a coaching framework so they have consistency of application. Now we obviously have our own framework called qualms QALMS. There's a great article in Forbes magazine that illustrates qualms, which is coaching to resilience. Number three we have to practice as leadership coaches what we say, how we say it, the language we use matters.
Speaker 1:Let me give you a really rough example, and these are actual observations. When I'm asking somebody what do you want to do? What's your goal? Where do you want to go? What could I do to assist you? What do we need to practice? That drives a different reaction than a leader I just saw not at one of our client sites Literally say to an employee no, no, no, that's not the right way. What you need to do with your career and I'll never forget that, and that's actually a very common thing that person said what you need to do with your career, why would someone else be in charge of someone else's career? And I could see the reaction from the employee of disdain, discomfort, almost like. I don't know if I want to continue this conversation. What we say, how we say it matters. Now, at the end of the year, we typically have this thing called the employee appraisal, end of the year review.
Speaker 1:If an organization, for heaven's sake, uses AI to have those meetings or to drive the understanding of the employee's performance. There will be such a backlash from the employees. So the two platforms, meaning in-person coaching and AI coaching, have to coexist. Leaders need to know a couple things. One are you willing to schedule time? Two are you conversationally ready? Number three do you know your person's motivator Meaning? Do you know where they want to go? At Progress Coaching, we talk about this all the time. The future of coaching is here and now we have to capture it. But I would have to tell you, more than anything, we share with people all the time. Never, ever, ever try to motivate your employees until you first understand what motivates them. That's the difference. That's the difference. So the future of coaching is actually here. Ai is not coming, it's here. Make sure that your organization and your leaders are scheduling time. They're well-practiced, they're conversation ready and they're going to drive performance. With that, something, sadly, magically, will happen Talent will go up and turnover will decrease.