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
Embracing the AI Revolution
Welcome to Coaching Conversations
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I think about when we are coaching people and we think about everything going up. I just saw a great, great video by a gentleman by the name of Travis who was talking about the AI apocalypse and we're going to have a shortage of talent, but are those two going to intersect? Are they going to bump into each other? And obviously they are. I go back to one fundamental thing that we are very focused on here at Progress Coaching, and that's coachability. I think about a YouTube channel I just saw with a young lady who talked about being a generalist. She's a jack of all trades and it was really one of the greatest things I've ever seen, because I've always thought well, you got to specialize. I'm almost wondering if we're coming full circle. Let me explain when I think about what's coming. We're going to have to use AI. You're going to have to use chat, gpt. You're going to have to become skilled or at least a user in some fashion. As I do this podcast, I just saw one of the greatest little tools on podcasting. I didn't quite understand it at first, but essentially what they do is they take one of your podcast episodes, they build it around a WordPress plugin and then basically it converts it into a form and once you fill out the form, it sends you back suggestions based on your form. And I'm like specific to the content of the podcast. I'm like that's a creative idea.
Speaker 1:As an owner, I cannot ignore those things. For years, obviously, people have made fun of me because I have ADD and obviously the shiny object syndrome might be one of the best skill sets I've ever had. Has it been a distractor and at times, caused a lack of focus? Oh my gosh. Yes, my former coach, scott Rasmussen, would say that all the time I think there's a little distraction here. I go a little, there's a lot. So when we're coaching, we have to be really widespread in what we're doing, and what I mean by that is we have to be very widespread in terms of what we're doing and we have to be very conscientious of the things that we're doing to gain traction with our careers.
Speaker 1:I'm going to give you an example. If you do manual editing at a newspaper, you will not be doing manual editing at a newspaper in two years, if not now. So what are you going to do? Go into your boss's office and say I know that the tool does it faster, but I don't want to switch careers, what are you going to do? I know that's kind of a rough, crass depiction, so let me ask you, as a listener of this where do you think people need to embrace the change? Where do you think that people need to really look in the mirror and say you know what I need to explore? Coachability here. See, coachability is about understanding yourself that when someone's giving you feedback, advice, mentoring, coaching, guidance, that it's not personal, it's for your well-being. We spend so much time resisting and pushing back in feedback that we fail to realize it's really just cloaked in perception. And if we opened up that door to perception we probably would become more skilled. We probably would be well prepared for what's about to come.