Coaching For Potential Podcast

The Coaching Habit is one of my favorite coaching books. And Michael shares some of the most important ideas in this quick learning paced podcast. 

Marion Franklin shares her secrets on how she makes a shift Happen. As a coach, you have to help people move beyond their perceived limitations. You need to help them discover their mindsets and with a mindset shift, you can have a behavior shift. Learn how to do this with Marion's tips and techniques.     

Coach out of love not fear with David Henzel of UpCoach. 

"Coaches rely far too much on asking open-ended questions," says Marcia Reynolds. But questions only seek answers--inquiry provides insight. When, instead of just questions, clients hear their thoughts, opinions, and beliefs spoken by someone else, it prompts them to critically consider how their thinking affects their goals. Reynolds cites the latest brain science to show why reflective inquiry works and provides techniques, tips, and structures for creating breakthrough conversations.

Connie Kadansky Professional Certified Coach (MCC) shows you how to coach your sales folks 2 sales success. She has terrific tips and tricks to make you a more effective sales coach. If you are reluctant to coach you are missing opportunities to grow your career and grow your career.  You can reach Connie at https://www.exceptionalsales.com  

Leadership v. Management confounds some people, and Ben Dooley makes the process simple. Learns the key skill of leaders and the key skills of managers, and how you can use both to become more effective in the workplace. You can reach Ben Dooley http://bedo.org.  

Have you ever had a team member get stuck on their vision and values? This episode has a number of questions and exercises to help you discover or rediscover your leadership values and vision.  • What’s important to you about that? This can help to peel away the values. •​If you imagine yourself having completed the role and looking back, what would you like to see? •​What are your hopes? •​What do you want? •​How do these values connect to the values of your organization or business? •​How will other people’s experiences or relationships change? •​How will you be different? ICE Model from Jerry Connor's Book the Four Greatest Coaching Conversations I – Important. What is important to you here? C - Change. What change do you envision? E - Experiments. What small steps can you take to bring this about?

Discover how succession planning can make you more successful. Learn what questions to ask your team members to see where they want to go, and how they best fit into your team. Mary Kelly is a leadership expert, National Speakers Association Hall of Fame Speaker, and a retired Navy Commander.  You can reach Mary at https://productiveleaders.com/keynotes/

Craig Lemasters - Discover the power of how to get unstuck. As leaders, we sometimes get trapped by a world with too much information and not enough wisdom. Craig shares with us how to get the wisdom to operate in this rapidly changing world. You can also reach Craig at https://craiglemasters.com/

Coaching for Results with Dr. Steven Stowell. Dr. Stowell shares his insights into coaching from over 30 years of experience. He shares his TIPS model for coaching. Learn how to set a TOPIC, identify IMPACT, create a compelling PLAN, and SUPPORT & SUSTAIN your team member.  This model will help you be a better coach and manager. 

Bobby Herrera tells us about the Gift of Struggle in his new book. Learn to lead from the place of real inspiration: your Struggle. Discover how to take control of your story to inspire your team. 

International Best Selling Author Richard Boyatzis shares how you can help your people grow. He has studied coaching and management his entire life and has some very simple and powerful ways you can make better connections to inspire and lead your teams. His book Helping People Change is an excellent tool for building a better connection with your team. Another excellent book of Richard's is Primal Leadership that he co-wrote with Daniel Goleman. Yep the Emotional Intelligence Guru. 

Learn how to reset the mindset of your team members by the questions you ask. Jason tells a very personal story about how a challenging question changed his life. What would happen if you have the courage to ask a very challenging question?  And what if it changed someone's life? Isn't that what coaching is about? Listen to Jason's story to hear the gift of challenge. You can find Jason Abell https://www.rewireinc.com/jason-abell or https://www.rewireinc.com  

Laser Focused coaching helps you get to the heart of the matter faster and more effectively. Marion Franklin will teach you how to be laser-focused with your questions so that you will ask the most important questions at the most effective time. Her book "The Heart of Laser-Focused Coaching - A Revolutionary Approach to Masterful Coaching." If you want to increase your coaching skills and zoom in on the challenges faster, I highly recommend it. You can reach Marion at https://www.lifecoachinggroup.com/  

  George McGehrin Executive Recruiter shares how coaching his clients makes a difference with his clients. He shares 2 powerful stories on how he used coaching to help 2 clients transform their careers after they were let go. You can contact George at branding.mcgehringroup.com You can Rory Rowland at www.roryrowland.com

Adversaries Into Allies - Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion with Bob Burg. This podcast will give you a fresh look into how we can influence others while maintaining your integrity and character.Some of you probably recognize Burg as the co-author of The Go-Giver, but this one is all his and according to the Bob, his finest work - the book he was meant to write.  Enjoy this podcast with Bob Burg. You can reach Bob at https://burg.com/

Great coaches know you coach the aspirations of your team member. You discover what they want to achieve in life. What are their hopes, wishes and dreams. Once you know that, and you help them achieve it. Then you are on your way to being a coach of influence. You can make things happen with your team when you really find out what drives them. What do they want to achieve? Know that, use that and you are a coach of influence.   

Here John Miller talk about his legendary book the Question Behind the Question. To be an effective coach you have to lead folks to personal accountability.  John is the best at this, and helping people focus on personal accountability, responsibility and self awareness. You can reach John at QBQ.com. His ideas will help you build more accountability with your team. 

In the "The 4 Greatest Coaching Conversations" by Jerry Connor. He discusses how you can identify the 4 coaching conversations that most coaches have with their team members. He had access to thousands of coaching conversations and they analyzed the discussions and found 4 kinds of coaching conversations. This is a great tool for you to be a better coach, and get to solutions more quickly because you now know which tools to use in which situatons. You can reach Jerry at https://www.bts.com/. 

There are 4 types of coaches. What type are you? And do you want to stay that way of coach? Learn the 4 categories of coaches, and discover the pros and cons of each type. This will help you look at your coaching style, and see how you can improve your coaching methods so you can grow your people and grow your career. 

What is the difference between winning and success? The distinction is important for you as a coach. Once you help your team members understand this difference, you can help them with daily excellence. Which leads to success and finally winning. Mark Adams an ESPN Basketball Analyst and Jeff Van Fleet show us the difference between winning and success and the keys to daily excellence. Also, Mark is told he is a fraud as a coach, and how they accusation changed his coaching and his definition of success. 

Silence is one of the least discussed and one of the most important keys to coaching. Will Rogers said “Never miss a good chance to shut up.” Silence lets you do that and you don't need an excuse.  Another quote I love is this one. “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen What you can learn in a moment of silence is very profound, and the one of the foundations to coaching. Use it and your influence and impact will continue to grow. Go grow you influence as you learn to listen more effectively so your impact will grow.   And I love this quote “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” ― Leonardo da Vinci - If you want to increase your authority increase your ability to listen in silence.  Other episodes you can listen to so you can improve your listening skills are -  112: Psychological Safety in Coaching Drives High Performance 85. Power of Presence with Andy Huckaba 82. When You Listen Deeply You Ask Better Questions!

Hear two great stories that will help you coach with intuition and wisdom. Discover how you can call on your  team members higher self to make significant, lasting change that dramatically impacts your organization while saving careers. There are two of the most powerful stories we have told on this podcast. You can contact Rick Olson at http://www.rickolson.com/  or email him at info@rickolson.com 

Learn How to Be a Magnetic Leader with Roberta Matteson. She's an international trainer and speaker who’s written the book "The Magnetic Leader: How Irresistible Leaders Attract Employees, Customers, and Profits." She will show you how you can make an impact with your team how you can attract the best talent and retain those folks you never want to see leave. If you miss out on the key characteristics of what Roberta has to offer you might lose some of your best people because you missed the opportunity to learn some of the best techniques to keep and retain the best talent.

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 workplace. 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? Will 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 save every single crew member. He devised a plan; he executed that plan. He and his crew lived on the ice flow of the Weddell Sea for nearly nine months. They nearly died because of his initial failure, but they lived because of his triumphant ability to lead amidst unprecedented chaos.   In the next three episodes we will explore some of the most important leadership qualities of Ernest Shackleton. We will use his story of crisis and leadership to discover how you can use his grit, determination, and creativity to help lead your team in these turbulent times. When asked about his heroic efforts and his ability to save his team Shackleton said "Everyone will have an Antarctic moment." I’d argue that we are in our Antarctic moment today. Our future is uncertain; we are living in unprecedented times and now, more than ever, we are called to be Shackleton-like leaders. This is your moment to rise and lead your team amid chaos and the unknown. Together, we will explore the wisdom and knowledge of a legendary leader whose tale serves as a guidebook in leading through troublesome and chaotic moments.   Recommended Readings: (from show notes) Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (available via audio)  Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer by Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell  Leading at The Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition by Dennis Perkins  

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 now?  How will you describe this moment, and will you be proud of your leadership moment? 

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 coaching and leading their team.  We must replace that fear with hopes, dreams and aspirations. What will you replace your fears with? More fears and greater fears or more hopes, wishes dreams and aspirations.  Dan Rockwell Ep. 37 How to Empower Through Coaching For a free copy of Coaching Manager University email Rory@CoachingManager.unversity      

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 Approach can transform your coaching.    

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. Here is a great video about Eliot Simmons and his approach as a law enforcement officer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phzi1wmEeEw  

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 possible.  Listeners recommended Podcast: (We interviewed them and this is what they shared.) 66: Seven Mistakes to Avoid as a Coach Recommended by Kimmie 75: Make Coaching Easy, Not a Process. Recommended by Joy 89: “Judge not lest ye be judged” A key to being a great coach! Recommended by Jaedine 51 How to Grow Employee Engagement with Meridith Elliott Powell’  Recommended by  Michelle 96. The Coach Model with Dr. Keith Webb  Recommended by Liz Top 10 Most Downloaded Episodes of the First 100: 21: Using Courageous Goals. 66: Seven Mistakes to Avoid as a Coach 20: How to Coach Employees Who Don’t Want to Get Promoted 84 When it is Foggy in the Pulpit it is Cloudy in the Pews! 49 Coaching for Progress, The Power of Goals. 56: The 5 Keys to Holding People Accountable 83. Do You Appreciate Your Employees? Does Your Boss Appreciate You? 75: Make Coaching Easy, Not a Process. 85. Power of Presence with Andy Huckaba 87: Have You Ever Granted 5 Wishes?  

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 in reality 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 rory@coachingmanager.university. 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 Rory@coachingmanager.university. 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.  Get Keith's book at https://store.keithwebb.com/the-coach-model-for-christian-leaders/ or contact Keith at https://keithwebb.com. 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 consider listening to - 83. Do You Appreciate Your Employees? Does Your Boss Appreciate You? 72. Great Leaders Ask Great Questions with Bob Tiede 79. How to Lead with Questions with author- Michael J. Marquardt      

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.   Since you’ve started your Supervisor role; what are the things you feel you’ve learned or improved on? What areas do you think you still need to work on or improve on? How would you describe the ideal supervisor? How do you think other people see you? How would you want people to see you? How would you like to improve your brand? What expectations do you have of your team? How would you help your team to develop and grow? How would you keep your team motivated? How/where do you see yourself in two years?

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 Stutzman'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 learn about Matt Stutzman who is a world class archer and Shane Battier a NCAA National Champion and an NBA World Champion and how they were challenged to their greatest achievements by 2 simple questions.  Those 2 questions, changed their lives. 

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. Listening in a non-judgmental way is a great gift to your team members.  

Have you ever bought a fake ticket at a major sporting event?  And what can it teach us about coaching?  2 important lessons can be learned by being taken by a ticket scalper.  And how that lesson can make you a better coach!

Have you ever lost a great employee? Learn how to grant 5 wishes to keep a worthy employee from leaving. This is a real life example of a manager who used 5 wishes to keep an employee from leaving.  The employee didn't ask for the moon, just be to mentored and coached. With that simple change the employee stayed and the manager was estactic! Learn to solve your challenges by granting 5 wishes.