Category Archives: coaching skills
My Best Facilitation Tips: How I Engage a Group
One of the pleasures of my job is in leading our Box of Crayons’ programs. As every manager who has ever facilitated a meeting, or coached a group of people knows, facilitation can be a daunting task. Recently I worked … Continue reading
Webinar: The Four Counterintuitive Truths of Successful Manager Coaching
I’m running a useful webinar on Thursday at 8am Eastern. Sign up here if you’re curious. Here’s the blurb Coaching is an essential part of most learning and development strategies – people and organizations flourish when managers have good coaching … Continue reading
6 Things I Taught (and Learned) at Two Recent Conferences
I’ve been on the stage a fair bit these last two weeks, with two big gigs in Toronto at the HRPA conference and in London at the Learning & Technologies conference. I’ve felt a little bit like a deep sea … Continue reading
3 Ways to Inspire Your Employees to Learn
Photo by Uku Praks If I gave you the choice between 1.) a team who weren’t learning and weren’t growing or, 2.) some people who were committed to both increasing and fulfilling their potential, which one would you pick? Tricky, … Continue reading
Why Employee Learning Matters
What’s your shark? Woody Allen summed it up nicely: A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead … Continue reading
What can you learn from coaching at Burton Snowboards?
It’s a thrill to see one of Box of Crayons’ program leaders, Lea Belair of the Coaching Center of Vermont, be recognized for their excellent work with Burton Snowboards. The initiative – driven by the business need to increase the … Continue reading
Allowing Your Talent to Blossom
We’re looking at talent and mentoring this month, and as it happens I’ve just seen a sneak peak of Dan Coyle’s new book – The Little Book of Talent – and it’s a beauty. You may remember Dan from this … Continue reading
My best secrets on effective coaching (with Chris Brogan)
I was interviewed by the great Chris Brogan today – blogger extraordinaire and contributor to End Malaria collection of essays about Great Work – and we talked about some of the best tips I normally only share in our coaching programs. … Continue reading
How to Get to the Point (When You’re a Time-Crunched Manager)
Photo Credit: Vinoth Chandar via Compfight Don’t you hate it when you work really hard and come up with a fantastic solution … to the wrong challenge? You’re not alone. I can’t but help think people in organizations everywhere are … Continue reading
