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Librarian Linkover appearance
In April, I talked with Lorene Kennard on the Librarian Linkover podcast. We talked about the benefits of hiring a leadership coach, as well as the differences between managerial coaching and professional coaching. Click through to visit the website or…
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How can you start to put some of these coaching ideas into practice?
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…
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Understanding how trauma affects your team’s willingness to be coached
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…
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Knock me down 9 times but I get up 10
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…
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How can you use a coaching approach to make sure everyone on your team feels supported?
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…
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Coaching exercises to help you (and your team) reclaim your sense of agency
Sending out that last edition of this newsletter was really scary. It’s a lot easier for me to talk about coaching skills than it is to talk about myself like that. I don’t even have words for how much I…
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How setting intentions can help you practice your coaching approach
Happy New Year! January always feels like a new beginning for me. When I was an academic librarian, this time of year meant starting a fresh new semester. And it meant starting to think about the annual self-evaluation I had…
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Using the Year Compass to chart your path forward
As the year draws to a close, I’m looking forward to some rest and rejuvenation. Whatever your plans are, I hope you have gentle holidays and space for reflection. In the last issue, I talked about reflecting on your accomplishments…
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Reflecting on your accomplishments and setting meaningful goals
For many people, December is a time for wrapping up projects and reflecting on accomplishments. That reflection can help you identify what matters most to you. And you can use that clarity to shape your goals for the upcoming year.…
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How can coaching skills help you navigate holiday gatherings?
This week, my mind is on how these coaching skills transfer beyond work. With winter holidays coming up, I’m thinking about navigating the sticky conversations that often come up at holiday gatherings.
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How do you “manage up” to get the support you need?
The main topic for this week is managing up, but first, I want to acknowledge a huge elephant in the room. It has been a pretty somber week here in Lisbon, Portugal. Every person I’ve talked with has asked how…
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How can you use coaching to help your team avoid burnout?
Burnout is on my mind this week. I tuned into the latest episode of the Surviving the Stacks podcast, and a lot of the conversation connected with the reasons I’m so invested in helping library leaders develop coaching skills. They…