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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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 focused on a technique to reach an outcome, then it’s a lot easier to ask…
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 left me wondering: What does that mean to you? I had a conversation recently with…
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 next time! Today, though, we’re just about 3 weeks away from the deadline to register…
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 a lot of library leaders share some of the same fears that I had. So…
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 opinions about what skills I’d like to see more librarians develop these days. Here’s the…
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 resetting your intentions to try again tomorrow. One of the major challenges is that you…
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 this long enough to remember when we discussed many of the targeted policy measures under…