First, what is a Project Manager (PM)? The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a Project Manager as change agents: they make project goals their own …
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Coaching Skills
Using Your Coach Training Skills with Colleagues
Often meetings with colleagues have an added element: we want them to complete something without having the authority to enforce their follow-through. Coach training provides …
Coaching Skills for Performance Improvement
As a continuation of the previous blogs, this one focuses on coaching skills for performance improvement. Completing coach training develops these skills for use in …
Coaching Skills as a Workplace Skill
In the previous blog, we shared the coach training participants are often completing their coaching certification to learn coaching as a skill for other jobs. …
Coaching Skills Applied in Other Roles
Often times participants in coaching certification classes have jobs other than coaching. Their reason for engaging in the coach training is because coaching skills are …
Remember this: Failing to Plan = Planning to Fail
Planning takes time. Time to think, explore, consider, reflect, define, choose, prioritize, strategize, and get specific with action steps. The barrier to dedicating time for …
What might get in the way?
During coaching certification participants learn to ask powerful questions. What might get in the way? is one of many questions learned and used by coaches. …
Balance
What is balance? Some think of balance as evenly weighed scales. With this thought comes the thought that work / life balance is impossible because …
Accountability
How do you define accountability? Accountability means having responsibilities, either to others or to ourselves. How do you manage accountability? As an individual, we are …
Fit the Pieces Together After Coach Training
Imagine that you completed coach training. Your head is spinning. As you reflect, you realize that the classes, tools, techniques, resources, and processes fit together …