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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 to do my job by someone who doesn’t have expertise in my area, whether that sounds like a Provost telling the library as a whole how to manage a collection or like an Associate Dean with no teaching…

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 been responsible for managing them or not, I assume that you’re familiar with the character who always has an excuse for everything, who never takes responsibility for needing to make…

Angela Pashia The Coaching Librarian ↓ I’ve been thinking lately about when I first started on this path to becoming a coach. When I enrolled in my coach training program, I learned a lot in the classes. In theory, I was excited to lean into this new field. In practice, though, I was intimidated! It’s one thing to talk about what this coaching would look like, but a whole other experience to actually do it. What if I do it all wrong? What if I look completely incompetent? In my program,…

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 new ideas, and I’d love to get your feedback on one of those new ideas: Would you be interested in paying to participate in a small group live workshop on developing a coaching…

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, I’m responding to another one of the questions that I wasn’t able to get to in last December’s webinar. This particular question connects with a topic we’ll be discussing in the next…

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 is 20 years old, but the main points still hold true. North American culture rewards having answers, not questions. Those of us who grew up taking standardized tests…