As managers, we should be able to relate to our employee's concerns and questions, people issues, and general human problems. Seeing as no one (at least anyone I know) starts off their working lives as a manager, relating to employees should be a no-brainer, right? Sadly, as anyone who has a manager understands, is that there are common things that managers around the country struggle with. After..
How a Manager Can Coach a Team to Greatness
Teams are fickle. Teams can be strong, but easily broken. Team development does not arbitrarily happen. A manager must maintain a strong focus and foster team development to develop continuous cooperation among teammates. Here's an audio that I think will give you four to five very strong strategies to help any manager facilitate strong team development through coaching.
Progress Coaching and midland video agree to partnership
We are pleased to announce that we have come to an agreement with Midland video to help educate the marketplace on workplace culture. Tim Hagen, President of Progress Coaching states, “Joe Liberatore and I have been friends for a while and we had never really thought of partnering with one another until I saw Joe's work. He helps companies use their workplace culture as a marketing and..
Inspirational Coaching Tips
Use these inspirational coaching tips to keep your teams motivation, engagement and connectivity high.
One Interaction Makes Your Workplace Culture
You can walk down just about any hallway in corporate America and here a group of employees talking to each other with the following statement: did you hear what happened…?
Welcome to Puzzle Place (Your Workplace Culture)
We talk about workplace cultures all the time. We should call it "Puzzle Place" because all the pieces have to fit together. Organizations and their workplace cultures are really a collection of people-based interactions. The interactions could be among people, departments, the organization and customers, etc. We tend to lay a strategic blanket over the organization with surveys or engagement..
Why won't managers coach and what to do about it?
Why won't managers coach and what to do about it? We've been teaching managers how to coach for almost 20 years now. One fundamental thing continues to be prevalent when we hear about the struggle to get managers to coach. They don't have enough time. In reality, they do have time. When we think about situations where a manager has to hire because they've lost employees due to another company or..
Accelerate prospecting & start coaching your sales team
Recently, we began using a platform called PhoneBurner. EssentiallyPhoneBurner is an innovative technology platform that allows you to load up a list of phone calls in their system that does much of the work for you in regard to the mundane tasks associated with prospecting. For example, here are some of the following features that seamlessly reduce tremendous time associated with prospecting:
Can managers even have a coaching conversation?
Can managers have a conversation? Okay this sounds really ridiculous doesn't it? Think about it, can managers really have a coaching conversation and what's the difference between a coaching conversation and a regular conversation?
The objective of a coaching conversation is to ask questions and learn about employees strengths, and inhibitions, and opportunities to improve. Telling someone..