Author: angela

Distinguishing between nice feedback that prioritizes your own need to avoid conflict and kind feedback that helps your team member develop.

Effective team-building requires shared purpose and priorities. Before committing to your next team-building exercise, keep these 5 elements in mind.

6 steps to help your team members (and yourself!) set and achieve goals that matter.

Once you train your brain to lean into curiosity before it jumps to giving advice, then everything else comes more easily. When you’re genuinely curious about what ideas your team member already had to solve a challenge, instead of just…

Strategies for using a coaching approach as a leader when you feel like you don’t have time for coaching.

My “tag line” as a coach is that I help library leaders confidently manage change and conflict, so that you can feel better about going to work. I know what I mean by that, but a few conversations recently have…

How using a coaching approach can help you manage situations where you may need to give some difficult feedback.

These are the most common areas for improvement that I see from managers when they practice asking effective coaching questions

I had a whole draft ready to go for you today about common ways to improve your coaching questions, but then someone sent in a question that preempted that! So you can look forward to a discussion of coaching questions…

This week, I’d like to share my experience of getting started actually coaching someone else for the very first time. I’ve shared this story before here, but a lot of folks have joined since then! And it bears repeating, because…