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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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  • What is your “why”?

    Why do you do what you do? If you’re already in a leadership position, why do you lead the way you do? If you’re not already in a leadership position, why do you want to develop your leadership skills? I recently started working with a new business coach, and one of the first questions she…

  • Inclusivity and Coaching

    Inclusivity and coaching is a heavy topic. On one hand, I see a lot of potential for a coaching mindset and a coaching approach to working with your team to contribute to making your workplace more inclusive. This comes to mind pretty frequently on LinkedIn, where I follow several people who talk about making workplaces…

  • Coaching an employee through managing their workload

    Time management is still at the front of my mind right now, because I’m getting ready to teach another session of Strategic Approaches to Managing Your Workload at Library Juice Academy in May and promoting my new small group coaching program built around the same theme, Tame Your Workload. This time, instead of focusing on…

  • Making time to develop a coaching approach

    One of the concerns that I hear regularly from people who are considering adopting a coaching approach to leadership is the amount of time that it can take. When you’re being pulled in too many different directions at once, it can be difficult to take the time to emotionally prepare for a coaching conversation and…

  • When coaching might not work…

    As much as I advocate using a coaching approach whenever possible, it’s important to remember that it’s only one tool in your toolkit. In professional coaching, we talk about “coachability” – whether a person is ready and willing to be an active participant in their development in this area. This isn’t meant as judgment toward…

  • Coaching on topics beyond your subject expertise

    How do you coach employees in areas that are beyond your area of technical expertise? I’ve had this question come up in a couple of different contexts. It reflects some of the challenges of stepping out of your comfort zone as a leader. As an employee at any level, I don’t enjoy being told how…

  • Excuses, excuses: Using a coaching approach with someone who has an excuse for everything

    You’re receiving this free newsletter because you subscribed yourself or you enrolled in a program with me. I hope you’ll find these letters valuable, but if you’d like to unsubscribe you can do that at the bottom of this message. And if you have any questions or comments, I love to get responses! Whether you’ve…

  • Feedback on an idea and what to do when you’ve given someone too much responsibility

    This issue describes an idea that I’d like to get feedback on, and then responds to the question: “What do you do when you think you have given someone too much responsibility/power? Or, how do you know when the person can’t handle the amount of freedom they are given?” I’ve been busy planning and brainstorming…

  • Giving feedback using a coaching approach

    You’re receiving this free newsletter because you subscribed yourself or you enrolled in a program with me. I hope you’ll find these letters valuable, but if you’d like to unsubscribe you can do that at the bottom of this message. And if you have any questions or comments, I love to get responses! This week,…

  • Powerful questions

    When was the last time you gave yourself time to just focus on asking questions without pressure to get to the answers? In the most recent meeting of the current cohort of Developing a Coaching Approach to Leadership, we spent some time discussing The art of powerful questions: Catalyzing insight, innovation, & action. This paper…