I help leaders build more empowered teams by embracing your curiosity and developing a coaching approach to leadership. I bring a dozen years of experience as an academic librarian to my coaching practice. So the examples come from library work, but you don’t have to be a librarian to learn something valuable!
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This coaching exercise can help your team focus on the things y’all can actually do to make your situation better and reclaim some agency
5 common narratives about leadership and counter-narratives based in concepts from critical librarianship.
Distinguishing between coaching and mentoring as complementary ways to support professional development.
Connecting bell hooks’ engaged pedagogy with critical leadership practices.
Let’s talk about how you manage conflict in your library, so that you can get to a constructive outcome instead of letting it fester and turn toxic
Developing a coaching approach to leadership can help to protect your team from burnout. Here are three ways that happens.
Using a coaching approach to build a culture of accountability – including clear expectations, support, and clear consequences.
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.