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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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    5 Problems Managers Face When Coaching Attitudes (And How To Solve Them)

    Mon,Oct 17,2016 @ 10:39 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Map Your Sales Success with "Sales Mapping"

    Mon,Oct 10,2016 @ 11:56 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    What is Sales Mapping? Sales Mapping is a program where a sales process and / or approach is mapped to a set of performance requirements to better understand specific performance requirements and position sales leaders to apply proven sales coaching strategies to these requirements.

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    What Would You Do? Coaching Contest

    Mon,Oct 10,2016 @ 11:55 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Here's an audio from an upcoming coaching contest we will be delivering in our November newsletter. What were going to do is provide a monthly challenge along with prizes and no not to take our training or get a free product from us but actual gift cards from Starbucks or other types of businesses. The idea is to get a conversation going and we are going to use our newsletter as a tool to..

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    How to Change Your Culture Using an LMS

    Fri,Aug 12,2016 @ 06:46 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Acronyms are thrown around the corporate world on a frequent basis. The main objective is sifting through them and truly delving into their definitions. For example, if you're like me, staying ahead of the curve and trends in the workplace is vital to creating an engaged culture that sustains growth. One tool that allows you to monitor and change your to culture is an LMS. So, what is an LMS?..

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    Attitudes affecting your culture?

    Wed,Aug 10,2016 @ 11:00 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    How to build a culture of trust at your workplace

    Thu,Aug 04,2016 @ 11:00 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Money, benefits, fun activities- what actually keeps someone motivated to come to work? While an energetic and engaging boss begins the process, what ultimately ends the debate is a trusting, cooperative environment. Not only does the manager need to trust that the employee will complete and fulfill obligations, but the employee needs to trust that the manager creates an environment of standards..

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    Three Core Requirements of a Positive Workplace

    Thu,Jul 28,2016 @ 01:00 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    There are more than three, but we have to realize high level the core things that need to be accomplished to secure and sustain a positive workplace culture. We believe at Progress Coaching that a culture is made up of the conversations and interactions we have within it. With that being said this article will take a top-down view point of what a culture needs to secure those conversations:

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    Coaching Career Development with Your Whiteboard

    Wed,Jul 27,2016 @ 11:49 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Do you ever find it difficult to get your point across when it comes to discussing changes with your employees? Sometimes, getting from where you are to where you want to be needs to be accompanied with a visual. Not only does this allow your employees to understand the details necessary to make growth, but it allows you to truly depict, in a positive manner, how to best achieve that change by..

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    Five Questions You Should Ask a Person With a Bad Attitude

    Tue,Jul 26,2016 @ 10:43 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Seven Major Things That Affect Your Culture

    Thu,Jul 21,2016 @ 11:00 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    A culture is really a set of interactions between people within an organization as it represents the ability to work together, deal with conflict with one another, and act as a cohesive team unit.

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