The Coaching School
Welcome to The Coaching School—the podcast where leadership development is taught like a cooking school.
We've reimagined our long-running Coaching Conversations podcast into a practical, engaging learning experience designed to help leaders become exceptional coaches.
At The Coaching School, we believe coaching isn't a personality trait—it's a skill that can be learned, practiced, and mastered.
Every episode gives you another ingredient, another recipe, or another secret sauce you can immediately use to develop your people.
Our Coaching Ingredients are the different types of coaching every leader should know—from one-on-one coaching and group coaching to peer coaching, observational coaching, career coaching, self-coaching, and AI-assisted coaching.
Our Coaching Recipes combine those ingredients into proven, step-by-step approaches for real workplace challenges. Whether you're coaching accountability, motivation, communication, teamwork, difficult attitudes, performance improvement, emotional intelligence, or career development, we'll show you exactly how to structure the conversation.
Then we share the Secret Sauces—the small coaching techniques that create extraordinary results. You'll discover powerful questions, accountability strategies, learning projects, recognition techniques, feedback models, motivational approaches, and practical coaching habits that transform ordinary conversations into meaningful moments of growth.
Every episode is designed to be practical, actionable, and easy to apply. Our goal is simple: help leaders feel more confident coaching their employees while helping employees feel great about getting better.
Whether you're a new supervisor, an experienced executive, an HR professional, a coach, or someone passionate about developing people, The Coaching School will provide you with the tools, frameworks, and confidence to coach more effectively.
So grab your notebook, pull up a chair in our coaching kitchen, and let's start cooking up stronger leaders, stronger teams, and stronger workplace cultures.
The Coaching School—where great leaders learn the recipes that help people grow.
The Coaching School
Cadence Coaching, Real Results
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Welcome to Coaching Conversations
We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application a
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Let me share with you a story of a company and a division within this company that we were applying some coaching. Now, I just recently introduced something we've been doing inside projects for years, and that's called cadence coaching. It's a greater cadence of interaction, but the interaction is not always live, it's also asynchronous. So cadence coaching is something that would be really something that we can drive greater traction and application of coaching. So what we specialize at progress coaching is the application
Introducing Cadence Coaching
SPEAKER_00of coaching. So when a leader comes to me, and these are real-world examples, I've got someone who wants to get promoted. They've been here three months. Oh, by the way, it's the nephew of the CEO. How do I have that conversation then? Who do I need to have the conversation with? Had two last couple of years ago from a manufacturing company. How do I have a coaching conversation with someone who's got body odor, but they're really high performers and I don't want to offend them? How do I have a coaching conversation with someone who's lacking motivation, going through the motions, and they keep saying, ah, I'm getting near
Real-World Coaching Dilemmas
SPEAKER_00retirement. I'm just kind of, you know, just don't ask me to do too much more. This puts our leaders in very precarious positions. So the conversation pieces are critical. What leaders say is critical. One of the things that I would share is leaders have a tough today. You know, when you have over 70%, you know, in the mode of being neutral or actively disengaged, meaning they're negative. And according to Tasha Urich, 85% of people lack self-awareness. Can you imagine walking into a team knowing that 8.5 out of every 10 people you're going to be managing isn't even aware of their own pitfalls and areas they can improve? And the leader inherits that. And 70% of the team is just doing their job. That makes it tough. So what cadence is, is we
The Engagement And Awareness Gap
SPEAKER_00travel the road with our clients. We travel with them. We literally make decisions about strategies and coaching plans and approaches. And here's an activity, and here's the right type of conversation model that you can have to produce the results you're seeking as well as your employee. Cadence is about a combination of in-person and asynchronous coaching. And what we have found is it saves our clients, leaders, up to 40% of the time. It helps reinforce the training, it helps apply the training towards
How Cadence Works In Practice
SPEAKER_00their real world. But more importantly, we're in the front seat of the car with them. We're seeing what they're seeing. So if this intrigues you, send me an email at tim at progresscoachingleader.com. If this intrigues you and you have some leaders that are struggling, let's show you either how to do cadence coaching, or if you want to hire our service cadence coaching where we travel the road with our leaders. You know, one of the things that we have found more than anything is our ability to help our leaders today cannot just be a training initiative. Training and learning and development teams have done a phenomenal, and I mean phenomenal job for decades. It's
Beyond Training: Bridging To Real Work
SPEAKER_00always been the reinforcement piece, but they are not equipped or typically staffed or have the wherewithal because of all of their initiatives. So how do you build that bridge to the real world that the leaders face? There are specific imperatives, their specific challenges. Cadence allows that to occur. Let us know your thoughts.