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
The Intersection of AI and Journal-Based Coaching: Transforming Careers
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
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Journal-based coaching is one of the greatest things I think people can do. I think it involves meditation, reflection, thought-provocation. I think one of the greatest things, at its most core, simplistic level, is when you journal, you slow down and you have to write. Now I happen to be anybody who knows me a very verbal person, so I love to journal and it slows me down, it calms me down. Now something interesting is going to happen and I think there's going to be an intersection at some point, and that is artificial intelligence and journal-based coaching. So how can AI deliver content, deliver coaching, provide questions, provide quotes, provide insight, provide thought provotion? And then somebody journals, answers those questions and maybe uses it to ignite another conversation. So let's say, I'm coaching somebody and I provide an AI tool and I said well, here's an AI tool, this will start our conversation and it gives someone maybe a softer way to start, meaning they're not on the spot with their boss or what have you. And then, all of a sudden, they are answering questions and then we ask them to journal and then bring it in, maybe once a month.
Speaker 1:So think about somebody who's being coached maybe two or three times a month. They have to do an AI interactive session, if you will, and then they have to journal. We give them a notebook, literally a notebook, and I think journaling should be taken very seriously because what it does journaling has been proven to reduce stress, improve retention. It brings other senses into play and what's really cool about it really cool about it is it gives you the opportunity to engage with a person who's more carefully prepared, a person who is more calmly prepared. Think about that. How often do we have leaders call somebody into their office and then we ask them questions and they feel put on the spot. They give us answers they want, versus when they could come in and say I've got my journal entries. And let's say we use some form of coaching automation or AI to drive the conversation before it even starts. What are your thoughts?