It’s a question we are often asked: “I’m trying to coach my employees, but sometimes I need to tell instead of coach. When is that OK?” There is a simple answer, and it involves this chart we have made available for download. It also involves Charles Bronson and Jason Statham, for some reason. … Questions? Comments? Ideas for future episodes? …
Common fallacies: Seeing through what’s not true (part 4–Assumptions)
Some informative new episodes related to our series on “Crucial Conversations:” This latest series focuses on “common fallacies,” arguments we make that, if you stop to think about them, just can’t be true. Identifying and naming these statements can keep you from losing focus on what truly matters. We encourage our listeners (both of you) to use these fallacies to evaluate …
Common fallacies: Seeing through what’s not true (part 3–”Statistical” errors)
Some informative new episodes related to our series on “Crucial Conversations:” This latest series focuses on “common fallacies,” arguments we make that, if you stop to think about them, just can’t be true. Identifying and naming these statements can keep you from losing focus on what truly matters. We encourage our listeners (both of you) to use these fallacies to evaluate …
Common fallacies: Seeing through what’s not true (part 2–Propaganda)
Some informative new episodes related to our series on “Crucial Conversations:” This latest series focuses on “common fallacies,” arguments we make that, if you stop to think about them, just can’t be true. Identifying and naming these statements can keep you from losing focus on what truly matters. We encourage our listeners (both of you) to use these fallacies to evaluate …
Common fallacies: Seeing through what’s not true (part 1–Avoiding the question)
Some informative new episodes related to our series on “Crucial Conversations:” This latest series focuses on “common fallacies,” arguments we make that, if you stop to think about them, just can’t be true. Identifying and naming these statements can keep you from losing focus on what truly matters. We encourage our listeners (both of you) to use these fallacies to evaluate …
Developing confidence as a new leader
Are you a new leader lacking confidence? We’ve got some tips. Confidence wasn’t automatically included when you were promoted to your first leadership position. We can help. Questions? Comments? Ideas for future episodes? Email Mike and/or Mark. Listen here … subscribe on Spotify, Amazon or Apple … or watch below.
Eight ways to ask a question well
As coaches, Mike and Mark spend a lot of time teaching clients how to coach their teams. You can learn powerful questions … you can master frameworks for the conversation … but how do you ask the question? This episode borrows liberally from Mark’s training with the International Coach Federation and from Michael Bungay Stanier, who we think is the bee’s …
The humility it takes to be a leader
The New York Times has a daily email briefing called The Morning that is pretty darn good. I don’t always agree with the editorializing, but it explains the reasoning behind why certain stories are in the news or on the Times’s radar. Here is one story I suspect we will all agree on: “The power of humility.” Using the N.F.L. …
Podcast 106: So you have to go to a mandatory workshop … (Mike and Mark: live!)
Have you ever been strongly suggested to attend a presentation or workshop? Perhaps even “voluntold?” This episode is to help you make the most of it. And for the first time ever, Mike and Mark facilitated some workshops together. So for the first time ever, they recorded an episode sitting in the same room. Let the dumpster fire ensue. We …
Podcast 105: Coach Wooden, Gandhi and Michael Jackson got it right.
Still on a high (Mike prefers the term “learning hangover”) from our conversation with the CEO of the John R. Wooden Course, Mike and Mark discuss one of the core tenants of the Wooden approach. Lead by example. Simple to say, hard to execute, profound in its impact. We would love your questions and comments for future episodes: …