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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Excuses, excuses: Using a coaching approach with someone who has an excuse for everything
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Getting started in actually using a coaching approach
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…
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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…
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Giving feedback using a coaching approach
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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…
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Moving on from years of toxicity
I recently had an experience that sparked another realization about just how much dealing with years of toxicity in the workplace has skewed my perceptions. Almost 2 years ago, I realized I wasn’t happy where I was in my career,…
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Leaving Libraryland
In January of last year, I decided to leave academic librarianship. A huge part of that was due to factors that were particularly bad at my university, but that were part of a larger trend in academia – attacks on…