Author: angela

April 1, 2025
Understanding how trauma affects your team’s willingness to be coached
Before I jump into today’s newsletter, I’m super excited to share that I recently appeared on a podcast! I joined Lorene Kennard on the Librarian Linkover to talk about coaching and leading with curiosity, as well as some potentially controversial…
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March 18, 2025
Knock me down 9 times but I get up 10
Yes, yes I am starting today with an early Cardi B reference 😂 The hardest part of developing a coaching approach to leadership is that you’re going to feel knocked down over and over, but you just have to keep…
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February 18, 2025
Make sure everyone on your team feels supported
One of the big stories in the onslaught of bad news coming out of the US lately has been the systematic dismantling of DEIA. So we’re no longer allowed to openly talk about equity and inclusion. OK. I’ve been in…
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February 4, 2025
Coaching exercises to help you (and your team) reclaim your sense of agency
Sending out that last edition of this newsletter was really scary. It’s a lot easier for me to talk about coaching skills than it is to talk about myself like that. I don’t even have words for how much I…
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January 7, 2025
How setting intentions can help you practice your coaching approach
Happy New Year! January always feels like a new beginning for me. When I was an academic librarian, this time of year meant starting a fresh new semester. And it meant starting to think about the annual self-evaluation I had…
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December 17, 2024
Using the Year Compass to chart your path forward
As the year draws to a close, I’m looking forward to some rest and rejuvenation. Whatever your plans are, I hope you have gentle holidays and space for reflection. In the last issue, I talked about reflecting on your accomplishments…
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December 3, 2024
How coaching can help your team reflect on accomplishments and set meaningful goals
For many people, December is a time for wrapping up projects and reflecting on accomplishments. That reflection can help you identify what matters most to you. And you can use that clarity to shape your goals for the upcoming year.…
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November 26, 2024
How can coaching skills help you navigate holiday gatherings?
My regular every-two-weeks schedule says that I should be sending out a newsletter today, but this Thursday is Thanksgiving in the US. When I worked as a librarian in the US, I was either out-of-office or just mentally checked out…
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November 12, 2024
How do you “manage up” to get the support you need?
The main topic for this week is managing up, but first, I want to acknowledge a huge elephant in the room. It has been a pretty somber week here in Lisbon, Portugal. Every person I’ve talked with has asked how…
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October 15, 2024
How can you use coaching to help your team avoid burnout?
Burnout is on my mind this week. I tuned into the latest episode of the Surviving the Stacks podcast, and a lot of the conversation connected with the reasons I’m so invested in helping library leaders develop coaching skills. They…
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