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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 No-No's

    Fri,Nov 30,2012 @ 04:04 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    3 Things NOT To Do When Coaching

    We constantly talk about what to do when coaching, but what about what NOT to do when coaching an employee? Whether you are coaching one, or coaching one hundred employees, the process of coaching can become overwhelming, and often, without realizing, you may veer off your intended path. Below are 3 things to avoid to keep your coaching on track.  
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    Coaching to Improve One's Self

    Fri,Nov 30,2012 @ 03:49 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Creating a Coaching Plan

    Fri,Nov 30,2012 @ 03:32 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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    5 Types of Coaching

    Tue,Nov 27,2012 @ 04:24 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    The 5 Types of Coaching

    In an ideal world every manager would have the time, focus, and energy to coach every one of his or her employees as often as needed. Unfortunately there are many other things like proposals, presentations, budget planning, RFP, sales reporting, hiring, firing, employee training, etc. that can steal your time and attention away from employee coaching. However coaching..

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    What is Training Without Coaching

    Tue,Nov 27,2012 @ 03:58 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    You'll Get Better Results Coaching Then you Will Managing

    Tue,Nov 27,2012 @ 03:28 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    You Will Attract More Worker Bees By Coaching Than You Will By Managing

    Coaching is about driving and demanding better performance, but if we invest time (consciously) in the good things, people WILL produce greater effort, which leads to better performance. If we only focus on what people do wrong or not as well as we require, this begs the question "will the employee continue to pursue..

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    Coaching Bad Attitudes

    Tue,Nov 20,2012 @ 04:35 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    The Formula to Sales Coaching Success

    Thu,Nov 15,2012 @ 03:35 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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    Now This is Coaching

    Thu,Nov 15,2012 @ 03:20 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Now This Is Coaching

    Coaching is NOT merely telling and showing, rather its about . . .

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    The Value of Coaching . . . Seen Through Coaching Youth Sports?

    Tue,Nov 13,2012 @ 04:43 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

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