Month: April 2024

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 how you can make time for coaching, let’s flip that around: how can you use a coaching approach to help an employee learn to more effectively manage their own workload? In…

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 then have a full curious conversation. Even if the coaching conversation only takes 10 minutes, that’s a lot more than spending only 1-2 minutes issuing a directive. And that’s just…