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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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    Now That You're Coaching, You Have to Make a Coaching Plan

    Thu,Jun 06,2013 @ 03:38 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    HOW TO CREATE A COACHING PLAN

    An important element of employee coaching is planning. After an initial employee assessment has been completed, it is vital that a coaching plan be created. The coaching plan can contain any combination of the 5 types of coaching depending on the area of improvement as well as depth of improvement. Below is a sample-coaching plan created for an employee that needs..

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    The Key Ingredient Your Organization is Missing: Coaching

    Thu,Jun 06,2013 @ 05:39 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Celebrate Your Employees

    Mon,Jun 03,2013 @ 06:41 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Coaching Focus: Effort + Progress and NOT RESULTS!

    Fri,May 31,2013 @ 06:13 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Coaching is Not an Option

    Thu,May 30,2013 @ 04:30 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    COACHING IS NOT OPTIONAL

    Somewhere along the way coaching employees has gotten the incorrect reputation of being this cute, soft, cuddly feelings focused hoo rah rah. Believed to be nothing but a superficial moral boost with no result producing capabilities, the employee coaching concept has been brushed off by many who continue to manage (and lose) employees using more “traditional”..

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    3 Steps to Coaching Your Employees

    Thu,May 30,2013 @ 03:49 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    3 STEP PROCESS OF EMPLOYEE COACHING

    Look, if we engage with employees on a day to day basis and, most managers do, why not make the most of it? But how does a manager do that? First we need to be equipped with three fundamental first steps to start the coaching process:

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    Coaching Is All About Investing In Others

    Thu,May 30,2013 @ 03:28 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    I'M FAT, I'M WALKING, AND COACHING: VOLUME IV

    Thu,May 30,2013 @ 07:22 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Coaching the Bad Apples

    Tue,May 28,2013 @ 04:48 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    HOW TO DEAL WITH BAD APPLES

    Bad Attitudes can hinder a business, but with coaching they can be solved. Bad attitudes can tear co-workers apart, can decrease productivity through out the office, and make co-workers unwilling to work together.

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    Coaching: To Improve or Not To Improve

    Tue,May 28,2013 @ 04:09 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    One of my client's managers recently told me that he did not have time to coach. I asked him why he felt that way and he stated "I have so many things on my plate I cannot even see straight". Now that's a mouth full and he is a good guy who genuinely feel that's way but I thought to myself "As a leader is he thinking of himself or his staff"? We need to drive our employee's performance because..

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