The Coaching Leader Podcast

In this podcast we talk to Rev Travis Guse who is a strengthsfinders coach and mission executive with the Southeastern District LCMS. He shares some very helpful definitions and examples of coaching and also shares how coaching can be used to take what is learned and transform it into action.

He helps us to differentiate between strengths and spiritual gifts and shares his wisdom and experience.

Travis may be found for those within the South Eastern District LCMS at: [email protected]

For others outside his district he can be found at [email protected]

and strengthsolutions.org

In this episode Chad Hall and Scott define and explore what it means to be a coaching leader, as the podcast is named. Specifically, Chad speaks about where coaching can fit in with church leadership. Chad also answers how can coaching interface and integrate with leadership, how a coaching leader can influence without always telling them what to do and what to think and how a coaching leader practically interacts with a whole organization.

This is the first part of a conversation with Dr. Chad Hall, president of Coach Approach Ministries. In this episode he first shares some of his background and insight about the current state of coaching and coach training in the north American church.

Then Chad shares a definition of coaching and how it is different from other helping skills. He helps us understand what makes someone a great coach and also when a person may benefit from coaching. Finally, in this first part of the interview Chad helps us understand how coaching helps facilitate personal change and development and how coaching can be used in the church.

In this episode we talk with Dr. Art Johnson of Palm Beach Atlantic University. He gives his insight not only as a professor of Organizational Development, Leadership and Coaching but also from his experience consulting with organizations and coaching individuals

In this first episode of The Coaching Leader, Scott interviews Rev. Dr. Jerry Kieschnick who is a past president of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. He shares about his journey in life and leadership.