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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…

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…

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…

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…