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    Tim Hagen

    Tim Hagen

    Tim Hagen founded Progress Coaching, a Training Reinforcement Partner Company, in 1997. His entrepreneurial career began in college leading to positions in sales, sales management, and sales training for small and large corporations, and eventually ownership of several training companies. Tim is often a keynote speaker at companies teaching the value of coaching and conversations in the workplace. He possesses a unique combination of hands-on experience, academics, and innovative insight to solve the industry’s most common challenges specific to workplace performance. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree in Adult Education and Training from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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    Coaching is About Facilitating Experiences to Grow (2 Step Strategy)

    Wed,Dec 02,2020 @ 02:45 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    This episode reveals a story or a two-step strategy was utilized to help with future leader become more self-aware. The two-step strategy use the following:

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    5 Sales Coaching Practices to Help Drive Performance & Consistent Results

    Wed,Dec 02,2020 @ 02:43 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    This episode teaches five sales coaching practices that are easy to implement and guaranteed to drive results. During this episode we will provide live examples of how to coach one with specific suggestions to support each component. There are those five areas:Sales Performance Coaching

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    Teamwork & Leadership Are Learned Behaviors

    Wed,Dec 02,2020 @ 02:35 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Teamwork and Leadership are learned behaviors. When kids go to high school and ultimately college that's an eight year time span typically where they then enter the workforce. With that being said, how many of these kids are really taught what it's like to be in the workplace and act in alignment of being a great teammate and supportive of leadership? I'm not sure of many educational institutions..

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    The Selling & Sales Coaching Worlds Are Changing ... Time to Get Ready!

    Wed,Dec 02,2020 @ 02:33 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    This 20 minute lesson teaches multiple strategies to adapt to the new world of selling virtually as well as leveraging video platforms along with how to coach to those changes successfully. There's so many opportunities right now the New World provides sales teams. It is absolutely imperative sales people and more importantly sales leaders drive those elements of change successfully. During this..

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    Why Getting Cut From a Team Gives Your Kid a GREAT Chance at a Career Later On

    Wed,Dec 02,2020 @ 02:30 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    This past weekend I received a number of phone calls from parents as it was tryout weekend for boys and girls volleyball in the state of Wisconsin. I'm still amazed that some parents feel that the process or the decision that resulted in the child not making a team was somehow unfair or personal. One such parent I shared a thought with and that was "what do you think is the silver lining?" The..

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    Interview with Chris Hokom Master Trainer & Certified Coach

    Wed,Dec 02,2020 @ 02:28 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    This episode is an interview with master trainer Chris Hokom. During the interview Chris will share his thoughts on the place both training and coaching together play in the workplace today especially during and after the pandemic crisis. This is a great interview for credit union leaders especially to listen to as Chris has a vast depth of experience in the credit union space.You can reach Chris..

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    WOW Your Customers During This Time ... They Will Love It!

    Wed,Dec 02,2020 @ 02:26 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    This podcast reveals three unique stories of what we can do to WOW our customers. I often think about WOW as an acronym Wonderful Opportunities to Win! This podcast episode will hopefully give you some creative ideas and thought processes to engage with customers differently to go above and beyond the call of duty to get people to walk away and ultimately say ... WOW!

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    What If We Traced Our Conversations ... Like A Virus?

    Wed,Dec 02,2020 @ 02:21 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Conversations take on life forms. They become events. They become living breathing things that can spread much like a virus quickly and without prejudice harming people unnecessarily. This podcast is a parallel between conversations and certainly our current pandemic crisis. I realize this is a little bit risky and I don't want to offend anybody and I think about conversations much like a virus..

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    NEW Trends in Sales & Sales Management: Interview With Mike Carroll from Intelligence Conversations

    Wed,Dec 02,2020 @ 02:18 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    This 25 minute interview with Mike Carroll fromIntelligent Conversations will reveal some of the trends and things leaders need to do during  new virtual selling  times.

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    Master Lesson: The 4 Areas Employees Need Help to Become Superstars

    Mon,Nov 30,2020 @ 04:41 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    This episode teaches four fundamental areas employees need to improve and with that improvement will help workplace cultures become more engaged and positive. This master lesson will teach the four areas and what leaders can do to facilitate positive improvement.For More Information on Coaching Employees to Superstar Status schedule a time to chat with me: click here

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