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 Coaching 360 Revolution
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
Progress Coaching 360 is a dynamic leadership development system that equips managers and teams with powerful coaching skills through a blend of training, real-time practice, peer learning, and feedback. It combines expert-led instruction, a train-the-trainer model, group coaching certification, and monthly coaching pods where leaders practice, share wins, and tackle challenges. With built-in accountability and hands-on application using Coaching Cards and best practice sessions, Progress Coaching 360 turns coaching from theory into action—building a sustainable culture of growth, feedback, and performance.
Progress Coaching 360 teaches leaders how to coach and employees how to develop coachability skills. This unique combination helps build great workplace cultures.
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Let me introduce you to a concept called Coaching 360. How do we bring coaching full circle inside an organization? Number one we have to establish goals, metrics, imperatives. You never want to start a coaching program unless it's tied to something, whether it be corporate values, maybe a sales initiative, maybe a customer service, a call to action or a mantra, whatever it might be. You have to start out with an established set of imperatives. Number two you have to train leaders to coach, not just to learn how to coach, yet how to coach to those business imperatives. Number three how do we get employees to receive coaching and feedback specific to what the leaders expect, as well as those business imperatives? Number four measure, measure, measure.
Speaker 1:Now, I'm not a fan of measurement right out of the gate, because essentially, what we're asking leaders to do is learn a new language, and a lot of times, when we measure so quick, so often, people start to come up with these statements such as well. I don't know if it's going to work. Coaching works. I can save you the time. It takes time to get there. Now, how do you accelerate that? Leaders being trained is one thing. Leaders have to practice conversations. I'm going to say it Often leaders show up and throw up.
Speaker 1:They simply show up and throw up. They're not well prepared. Can you imagine someone with a negative attitude looking at them and saying, john, your attitude, I'm just getting really frustrated. Guess what just happened? That employee just went into a defensive mode Versus someone saying, john, what are you going to do to successfully engage with your teammates and what can I do to assist you? The second one's going to garner a much different reaction.
Speaker 1:So 360 is about how do you bring it full circle. So when you measure, you've got to look for those strengths, celebrate them, wallpaper the company with them. Number two find the gaps. Address the gaps with coaching. The greatest thing that we can do is bring coaching full circle. It has to start with what you're trying to accomplish. So think about your metrics, think about your imperatives, think about your corporate values, think about the things that you need to do and how can coaching drive those? And how can employees approachability and coachability in alignment with that coaching drive the process as well. And then, when we measure, how do we use measurements not to say yay or nay? How do we use measurements not to say yay or nay? How do we use measurements to truly understand what's working and what needs to be tweaked.