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    Five Reasons Coaching Helps Retain top Talent

    Mon,Apr 17,2017 @ 11:49 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    The coaching industry is growing by leaps and bounds. With that being, said I think we have to be very conscientious of the reasons why we need to coach and not just for the traditional reasons of engagement and performance development, but more organizational reasons as well.

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    Attitude is Everything!

    Mon,Feb 13,2017 @ 10:37 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Although it is impossible to control another person’s attitude, it is possible to make an impact on someone’s attitude whether it be negatively or positively. Often times, attitude is only addressed when it poses a problem or starts out poorly and gets worse. Positive attitudes are rarely addressed, and rarely do we invest in the good things while rewarding positive attitudes. Coaching can help..

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    What The Heck Are My Sales People Doing Inside The Sales Funnel?

    Tue,Feb 07,2017 @ 11:00 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Let's be honest, tracking sales such as leads does not drive sales performance. Tracking won or lost sales also does not drive sales performance. So why do I bring this up? Recently, I met with a sales organization in the manufacturing sector that was telling me they meet with the people every single week for coaching sessions. When I asked her what was the basis of the sessions in terms of what..

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    The Keys to a Successful Coaching Business

    Mon,Jan 30,2017 @ 10:56 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Coaching has grown in popularity in terms of setting up a business now more than ever. Coaching continues to rise as the reception of coaching continues to grow in the corporate world. We have life coaches, executive coaches, sales coaches, nutrition coaches, just to name a few. As our market gets crowded, and dare I say saturated,

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    How to Expand Your Coaching Time!

    Tue,Jan 03,2017 @ 11:15 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Whether you are a manager or coach that provides a service of coaching time has always been our greatest challenge. It seems everybody's entering the coaching profession these days and more and more companies are starting to adopt coaching as a talent development strategy. How does one go about maximizing time?

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    Getting Managers to Coach is NOT Just a Training Challenge

    Mon,Dec 19,2016 @ 11:28 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Years ago there were few of us and now there are many of us. Who are we? We are companies that will come in and work with your organization and train your managers on how to coach. The challenge continues to grow in terms of gaining traction with managers. I would assume we all hear some of the same things such as they have a challenge with a lack of time and that they wear many hats.

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    Stuck in Mud? Here's How to Get Out

    Tue,Nov 22,2016 @ 01:33 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    It's that time of year where finding an excuse to get out of things becomes more and more appealing with each passing day. We lack motivation- it's darker outsider earlier, it's getting colder (for those of us that have the misfortune of living in the North), and the end of year is approaching. We have to take a minute to look in the mirror by asking ourselves the question, "If I want my..

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    The Power of Generosity

    Fri,Nov 11,2016 @ 10:00 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    Disconnects between departments, low levels of motivation, a negative atmosphere, employees who feud and power-struggle – many workplaces will eventually wrestle with at least one of these problems. On the surface, they might seem unrelated, but I’d suggest they all boil down to one thing: a culture of generosity.

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    HOW COACHING CAN DRIVE YOUR MANAGEMENT PIPELINE OF TALENT

    Tue,May 03,2016 @ 07:32 PM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    One of the things that we hear in our business all the time is the need to build management talent from within. So often companies will spend 20 to 30% of salaries to enable a recruitment company to find them suitable talent. First of all there is nothing wrong with this and nor should recruitment firms be blamed for this. In fact there needs to be a hybrid model so talent is being recruited as..

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    Coaching Adults ... Coaching Kids ... Often The Same Thing!

    Fri,Nov 13,2015 @ 09:01 AM | Posted by: Tim Hagen

    How many times have we asked our kids to clean their room only to hear "I will" and they ultimately never do it when they say so. Now let's turn to adults and asking an employee why they didn't finish a particular project and we often hear "I am so busy" . During our training session when we teach our programProgress Coaching I often share the joke we leave our kids at home to go coach our kids..

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