The Look & Sound of Leadership

How To Coach Your People


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A no-nonsense leader is asked to add coaching to her list of duties. She turns to the coach who’d coached her for a quick immersion course. 

Coaching your people requires a shift in thinking and a specific set of behaviors. These ideas are captured in a PDF about the GROW model. It’s available to you for free here.

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During the episode, Tom and Laurel mentioned Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High. A great skill-building resource.


This episode lives in three categories in the Podcast Library:

Management Skills

Perception – How you Perceive Others

Relationship Building.


Five related episodes you might listen to are: 

132 – Coaching Your People 

91 – Facilitating Open Dialogue   

155 – The Human Element

83 – Leadership and Listening  

26 – Questions as Leadership

You can explore more ideas about coaching your people on Dave Stachowiak’s Coaching For Leaders podcast. Episode 190: How to Improve Your Coaching Skills.

Tom raved about Dave’s conversation with Connson Locke. That’s on Coaching for Leadership, Episode 546: How to Speak Up. 


Catch Tom answering coaching questions on the Unlocking Leadership – Ask the Coaches podcast.

How To Build Executive Presence

How to Become a Strategic Thinker

Rebuilding Engagement prior to Restructuring, Can an Executive Coach Help?

Gratitude, as always, to those who reach out to us and to those who post reviews. Thanks!

From all of us here at The Look & Sound of Leadership, be healthy and safe. 


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See you next month!

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