The Bridge: Building Coaches, Connection, and Curiosity

G.K. and Taylor explore the balance between praise and challenge in coaching conversations. We cover the 4 Types of Coaches/Leaders, having those hard conversations with underperforming reports or clients, reframing our mindset toward challenging people we are coaching, and how Positive Psychology supports healthy challenges, and the power of focusing on the person rather than the problem.

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In this episode Taylor and G.K. investigate Shadow Coaching, which is a mindset that includes contingency planning and making room for unintended consequences. We will explore the yin/yang nature of success, using the FOAMI model in contingency planning, and how to strike the balance between naive optimism and paralyzing skepticism.

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In this episode we discuss the eternal challenge of coaching in the midst of all the time and resource challenges leaders face. We cover basic strategies, "how to's", and the value of selecting the precise outcome you want to coach someone towards in order to save time and increase effectiveness. We also explore how the coaching mindset makes coaching more organic to your leadership style.

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The episode marks the final discussion of The Pinch Package, a model for renegotiating expectations and roles in relationships and keeping them fresh and alive. In this episode we talk about how to set up and navigate a "Pinch Meeting", where new information is incorporated into the relationship, new expectations are negotiated, and our roles in relation to each other and/or the organization are maximized.

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In this episode Taylor and G.K. continue sharing The Pinch Package, a key tool for understanding and keeping relationships current and dynamic. We talk about why relationships that were once vibrant can cool over time; the four dysfunctional responses to a "Crunch" and how "Planned Renegotiation" is a more effective strategy.

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This episode introduces "The Pinch Package", a model for understanding and maintaining strong relationships. A challenging assertion is made: We don't make commitments to each other, we can only be committed to the roles we play in each other's lives.

Taylor and G.K. discuss the part roles play in relationships and the dynamic of renegotiating expectations in the key relationships of our lives.

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In this episode Taylor and G.K. discuss the key differences between individual coaching and group coaching. Group coaching is not facilitating, presenting, keynoting, or group training. It is navigating transformational conversation with more than one person at a time.

Key points covered are: group vs. individual coaching dynamics, unique demands of group transformation, the Self-Disclosure Loop, and managing expectations and accountability in the group.

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In this episode, Taylor and G.K. discuss the sales gremlin called Objections. For many people objections are things to be feared. In truth they are vital and valuable allies to salespeople and negotiators.

Objections reveal the fears and concerns the person you are negotiating with is holding. Sometimes they are merely ways to slow down the conversation and to keep control of it. Even more valuable, objections can uncover the true motivations the person you are negotiating with has.

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In this episode Taylor and G.K. discuss making our way through those sensitive conversations including grief and loss. Coaches - while not masquerading as therapists - have many opportunities to help people at sensitive times in their lives. This episodes offers tips and experiences that we hope you find helpful.

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Conflict is a part of life. Most people are uncomfortable confronting and resolving conflict and choose to ignore it or bury their heads in the sand and hope it goes away. Conflict rarely goes away or resolves itself on its own.

This episode considers ways to turn conflict into a product conversation.

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