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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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    4 Conversations A NEW Manager Must Have

    Fri,Sep 09,2022 @ 09:17 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    This episode teaches 4 conversations every new manager not only has to have but has to have fluently and skillfully. The first 90 to 180 days of every new manager's position will be met with resistance, lack of support, and certainly excitement by becoming a new manager. Every new manager must become skilled at conversations because they will be challenged by peers, former peers, people with more..

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    Employees: Seek Feedback ON YOUR TERMS!

    Fri,Sep 09,2022 @ 08:52 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Feedback is a very tough subject for people. It is our contention here at Progress Coaching people dismiss or accept feedback based on their agreement germane to the feedback. What most people don't understand is feedback is not a literal thing yet it is also morphed in perception. When somebody provides an employee feedback such as you are coming off negative and the employees first responses no..

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    The F10 Assessment ... Check It Out

    Fri,Sep 09,2022 @ 08:48 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Feedback is a very tough subject for people. It is our contention here at Progress Coaching people dismiss or accept feedback based on their agreement germane to the feedback. What most people don't understand is feedback is not a literal thing yet it is also morphed in perception. When somebody provides an employee feedback such as you are coming off negative and the employees first responses no..

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    The Workplace Triangle

    Fri,Sep 09,2022 @ 08:44 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    The triangle of coaching is a very simple concept yet there are some unique attributes of each stage we encourage organizations to adopt. One of the most fundamental mistakes I think organizations make is we spend so much money on a top-down approach specifically teaching leaders how to lead their employees. When you think about a traditional organization of let's say 100 or 1000 people typically..

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    We Have It Wrong! The Missing Piece in Leadership Development

    Fri,Sep 09,2022 @ 08:39 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    I think we have it wrong when it comes to developing leaders within our organizations. If leaders make up let's say 15% of the organization and we have 85% of the organization who needs to receive that leadership we need to cultivate the mindset and the reception of that 85% so the 15% can be heard and accepted. 

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    The Feedback 5 ... Improving Workplace Culture Through Creative Feedback

    Fri,Sep 09,2022 @ 08:25 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    There are 5 actions of feedback a leader can use and this episode also teaches how to teach employees to get feedback on their terms. Feedback is a loaded issue and if carefully crafted from both end of delivery and reception workplace cultures and team will dramatically improve.

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    Teach Employees To Receive Feedback on Their Terms

    Fri,Sep 09,2022 @ 08:21 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    You often hear the concept that feedback is a gift, and it truly is yet we cannot use that approach as some reactive way to facilitate a positive relationship with feedback when so often it is perceived as negative. A positive cadence of feedback structured by the recipient is the secret sauce. There is such a simple concept called WIIFT, what is in it for them.

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    Why Bartenders Make Great Coaches

    Wed,Sep 07,2022 @ 08:58 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Recently, I was conducting a workshop and one of my participants was an ex-bartender. She never hesitated to participate or offer her thoughts or converse with people or dare I say, role play. She's quick on her feet and really listens well during the workshop. I asked her where those skill sets came from. She said, I bartended for 15 years. As I thought about her response, I thought what a..

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    Coaching Conversations Do Not Need to be Difficult With A Little Planning & Preparation

    Wed,Sep 07,2022 @ 08:52 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Conversations are hard. The cool thing about what's happening in the training and development and talent world is that leaders and organizations are finally realizing coaching is not just something we'd like to do if we had time. It is now moved into an arena of, We Must Coach Our Employees. This requires leaders to have conversational ability, the ability to ask questions, to truly listen, to..

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    Conversations Affect The Workplace

    Wed,Sep 07,2022 @ 08:47 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    First of all, realize one thing conversations are powerful! What we say and how we say it has a major impact whether fair or unfair.

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