Newsletter – Angela Pashia

September 3, 2024How can Slow Librarianship help you build a coaching culture? In the last issue, I included a poll asking for your feedback on ways to build community around this coaching approach to leadership. The option that got the most votes was “Monthly semi-structured conversations on a coaching topic”. So, save the date for Thursday, 26 September at 4pm London / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific! Here’s the google calendar placeholder for now, and I’ll have more details next time about what the topic for the conversation will be. This time, I’d love to get your…Read more
August 20, 2024What should I do next? This past Friday, 15 Aug, I celebrated the first anniversary of my last day as an academic librarian! 🎉 https://www.pexels.com/photo/cupcake-with-chocolate-icing-and-sparkler-2190381/ I’d like to invite you to celebrate with me – I'm offering a free coaching session to the first 5 people who reply to this email (limited to those who haven't had a free session before)! That’s not a sneaky way to get you on a video chat for a sales pitch… At least not directly! The best way to understand the…Read more
July 23, 2024Exploring the problemI talk a lot about the benefits of using a coaching approach, but I also hear a lot about employees who are resistant to the idea of coaching because of how that label has been used in the past. Coaching is a skill that you need to develop through a combination of passive learning, active practice, and constructive feedback, just like teaching or doing effective reference interviews. You can learn a lot about any of those skills from reading on your own, but to really get good at using these…Read more
July 9, 2024Timing can be everything⭐️ The early bird discount registration deadline for Developing a Coaching Approach to Leadership is already coming up next Monday! If you’ve been thinking about joining, click through and sign up for a registration conversation while this note is on your mind! And now, on to our regularly scheduled content! I had a couple of interactions recently that raised the question of when is the best time to invest in training to develop a coaching approach to leadership. Whether you're thinking of…Read more
June 18, 2024How do you handle really difficult conversations with members of your team?I have two news items to share before jumping into the newsletter for this week: Registration is still open for my free workshop on Using a Coaching Approach to Leadership on June 25. And registration is officially now open for the next cohort of Developing a Coaching Approach to Leadership this August through December! This is an opportunity to join a small group of library leaders meeting every other week for 5 months to practice building your coaching skills and building lasting habits. We…Read more
June 4, 2024What is your "why"?Why do you do what you do? If you’re already in a leadership position, why do you lead the way you do? If you’re not already in a leadership position, why do you want to develop your leadership skills? I recently started working with a new business coach, and one of the first questions she asked me was why I do what I do. It's important to be really clear on that "why", because that's going to guide all of our work together. I need to be clear on why I'm doing this in order to make decisions…Read more
May 21, 2024Inclusivity and CoachingInclusivity 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 mind pretty frequently on LinkedIn, where I follow several people who talk about making workplaces more inclusive with regard to neurodiversity and disabilities, parts of DEIA work that I was less informed on until the past couple of years. Last week, I engaged with a post…Read more