When you learn to coach effectively, you drive high performance and you increase the visibility of your skills. Learn how you can become a better coach and build a stronger team. As your coaching skills increase your career is propelled forward. 

Psychological safety in coaching helps drive high performance. Get real life examples of how to create psychological safety in your coaching and your team. If you want to improve the performance of your team and your career - focusing on psychological safety can one of the keys to your and your team's success.       

The Art of Kindness in a Crisis - With many people's world upside down, the art of kindness is much needed in the work place. We lead this podcast with a story of insensitivity, and the social media blowback from that corporate decision. How will your leadership be measured in 5 or 10 or 15 years? We you be a case study of compassionate leadership, or blindness to the challenges your employees are facing? 

Here is Part II of How to manage a crisis with the Ernest Shackleton's great Antarctic Adventure story. The expedition was a colossal failure. Discover how Shackleton used his leadership power to save every member of the crew. Discover the 6 principles he used to manage the crisis and save his team. I highly encourage you to get an audio copy of "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing it is a wonderful book about an incredible story. A great story of managing a crisis. 

Ernest Shackleton's great Antarctic Adventure was a colossal failure. His grand plan was to cross Antarctica via the South Pole, but his ship got stuck in the Weddell Sea and sank. He failed. What began as one man’s desire for a great adventure soon turned into a lifesaving moment. His ship was sinking because of his failure, but now, far more important, was the new crisis in front of him: how would he save his crew? In that moment of crisis, Ernest Shackleton used his leadership power to...

In Part 2 we continue our discussion of difficult times call for leadership moments. As you face these challenges with this new crisis you can be in command and lead with questions. Discover how to lead with questions and discover what your team is most concerned about and help them work through it.   

This is Part 1 of a 2 Part discussion of handing fear and still leading.  Difficult times call for leadership moments. This may be your leadership moment. How to coach your team when you have your own fears, and still need to lead.  Yes, your people are looking up to you to lead no matter what. This virus may be your what.  We discuss how to face your fears and over come the challenges that lie ahead. A great question to ask yourself is how will you view this moment in 2, 5 or 10 years from...

106. How to Overcome Your Fears of Coaching! In this episode I asked a group of C-level managers what is their fear of coaching, and their fear of their management team coaching. It was amazing to see the results of this discussion. In this episode I share some of the fears of these managers, and the fears for their management team regarding coaching. It made me pause and consider the fears that managers had about coaching. It has widened my perspective of how fear can keep managers from...

105: How to Coach Someone Past Their Fears. Fear can paralyze you or inspire you to change. In this episode we will give you a whole host of questions you can ask to help someone overcome their fears. And that person you help may be you. All the best in helping someone overcome the challenges they face that are anchored in fear. 

104: Coaching for Confidence - Have you ever had a team member who  lacked self confidence?  In this episode 2 clients help me with this issue and show me how to coach self confidence. Discover how you can help your team members grow their self confidence and be more productive members of your team. Now I believe in you go out there and know that you can do it.  Well this episode is more than just platitudes and better attitudes. 

103. If you want to be a great manager you must be good coach. We didn't say a great coach, but a good one. You must understand the basic concepts of coaching and how to ask questions.  If you are good at asking basic questions and can engage your folks and help drive them to a higher level of performance you can be a good coach and a great manager.    Other episodes that may be of an interest to you if you enjoyed this episode are  72. Great Leaders Ask Questions 43. How the MacGregor...

102: The Power of Being a Supportive Coach. We share the story of Elton Simmons a LA Deputy Sheriff who had over 20,000 traffic stops and zero complaints. Learn how he showed support and compassion, and how you can use those tools to be a great coach. Learn how to use the power of support to make a difference in the lives of the people you help, and how you can make a lasting impact. Here is his story from CBS and how he did good and you can do good too. 

101 How to uncover the blind spots and clarify how to reveal the impact it is making on your team.  Also, Congrats to the Chiefs - being a huge Chiefs fan watching them win a championship is amazing!  How about those CHIEFS! Enjoy the episode. 

100. Yes, this is the 100th episode of Coaching for Potential.  Enjoy a bit of a recap! What were the best episodes from our listeners perspectives?  To Celebrate we give you the top ideas learned from several of our listeners and the episodes they reference in the notes below. We list some of the 45 countries that have had downloads, and we give you a top 10 list of the most downloaded episodes. Enjoy, and Thank you for listening to Coaching for Potential. You the listener made this...

99: To Coach or Not to Coach that is the Question. In my discussion with clients I had folks ask "when should my manager coach me?" And "when should I coach my team members?" These are great questions. Sometimes we coach when giving direction may be the best approach. Discover 3 questions you should ask yourself before you go down the coaching path. This will clarify when and when not to coach. 

98: Cold Q & A - This time we do Q and A completely cold.  Paul picked the questions, and then  challenged me to answer them dead cold. No prep, no peaking, no hints, just real life dead cold questions, you decide did I shine or bomb? Your choice. Let me know you conclusions at [email protected]. Let me know if I was right on target, or I missed a soft ball? 

97. Here are some challenging questions from some listeners. Hear our recommendations of how you can deal with some of the challenges you face on a daily basis. Please feel free to send us some challenging questions, you can send them to [email protected]. And enjoy this episode. 

96. We are excited to offer you an interview with author Dr. Keith Webb of "The Coach Model." Learn how to listen even when you don't want to listen. (I suffer from that from time to time.) Learn how to build rapport, how to raise awareness with your team member. Improve your active listening techniques with his simple focus approach.  Here is a great summary of his book in PDF format. Enjoy. https://farran.abwe.org/uploads/9/7/1/2/97128822/the_coach_model_summary.pdf  

95: The Manager's Challenge. You have been given a strict directive from the leadership in your organization. Your team doesn't like it, you don't like it. To make matters worse you and your team don't think it will work. But you have to do it, you have to implement it? How do you keep your self-respect, your team's respect, and your leadership's respect when you give your leadership team feedback on how you and your team doubt this approach will work? If you liked this episode you may...

How to manage your boss may be just as important as managing your team. Here are over 10 ways to manage your boss, and how to reset you mindset so you can manage your boss. If you don't manage your relationship with your boss, who will?

How to Tell an Employee They Didn’t Get a Promotion. Yet, you want them to still stay with you both physically and psychologically. Discover how to deliver bad news from one of my coaching success stories. A client went through this challenge recently and learn how they delivered the bad news and got a good result. The non-promoted employee stayed and is more focused than ever to be ready for the next promotion. A happy ending is a great coaching moment.  

92: Reach clarity faster by asking better questions. And learn 5 mistakes coaches make by asking bad questions. Avoid the mistakes so you can be a great coach. 

You have had success coaching, now you can go to the next level.  Here are 10 questions you can ask to help your team member get to the next level.  Improve your coaching with 10 questions to help you improve your teams performance. 

90: The Gift of Challenge - What does a world class archer with no arms and an NBA Champion have in common? They both were given the gift of challenge. Matt Stutaman's adopted parents and Coach K from Duke gave  the gift of challenge, and it propelled both of our podcast subjects on a journey to their highest achievements.  What questions can you ask to challenge your team members to their highest level of performance? Do you have what it takes to give the gift of challenge? In this podcast...

This is a reload of Episode 19 about being non-judgmental in coaching. Being non-judgmental is one of the foundations of a great coach. We have to hold judgement so the team member can see the events from their perspective and get clarity. Clarity is the key to success for your team member.