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I believe the coaching definition in the dictionary is wrong. Here are 5 alternative definitions including sports, life coaching, professional coaching, agile coaching and manager coaching.
Happy Friday,This weeks insights include: • Tackling Workplace Injustice 💡 • The Trillion Dollar Coach 💰 • Atomic Coaching: Improve Self-Awareness 🎯
With Gratitude,TobyTackling Workplace Injustice 💡
This week I started reading Just Work by Kim Scott. I was excited to read this as Kim's book Radical Candor is one of my all-time favourites.The book shares a framework for tackling workplace injustice. It shares 3 types of injustice and the tactics you can use to tackle them.I haven't quite fini
An inside look at how the worlds biggest CEO's leverage coaching to improve. It is easy to assume that the most successful don't need coaching. This book highlights that no matter how successful you are, coaching can add value.
Happy Friday,This weeks insights include: • How To Navigate Team Conflict 💥 • Curated Insights Interviews - Kate Leto 🎙️ • Atomic Coaching: Build Your Definition of Coaching 🎯
With Gratitude,TobyHow To Navigate Team Conflict 💥Navigating Conflict is one of the biggest challenges we face in the workplace.It's one of the few things that will keep you up at night and leave emotional scars.There is a dilemma. The right conflict can lead to improved performance. In contrast, the wrong conflict can
Imagine you are observing these two teams solve a problem:Team A - Lots of enjoyable discussions and reinforcement of each other's ideas. Team members are having fun and it's a relaxed open atmosphere.Team B - Heated discussion, ideas challenged and debated. There is tension in the room and at times it feels uncomfortable. There are no personal attacks but team members challenge solutions robustly.Which group do you think will lead to the best solutions?Research shows that although Team A is mor
The 3 big ideas, key quotes and takeaways from Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. Learn how team structures shape software architecture and flow.
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This week I introduce a new section to the newsletter - Atomic Coaching. Each week I'll share a small challenge to help grow your coaching skills.This weeks insights include: • How To Build Rapport 🤝 • Leadership Lessons from Instagram 📷 • Atomic Coaching: Asking Powerful Questions 🎯
With Gratitude,TobyHow To Build Rapport 🤝This week I read Rapport by Emily Alison and Laurence Alison.Rapport is your ability to build a connection with people.It's the bedrock of successful relati
Amazon Smile UK | Amazon Smile US When you purchase via Amazon Smile your chosen charity will get 0.5% donation⭐ Toby's Rating: 6/10 - Recommended For: Coaches and ManagersRapport is a book that we hope provides something for everyone. Whether seeking to make a new connection or to deepen an existing one, our hope is that it will help you build rapport. With this book, we set the bar for interpersonal skill and we challenge everyone, including ourselves, to uphold these principles with our love
The big question for many leaders when to Coach vs Mentor.When a team member seeks out your help it's easy to jump to advice: "Here's what I would do..."Always responding this way can cause a few problems for leaders over time.Firstly, it can create a dependency on your leadership. Instead of thinking for themselves, the team will come to you for answers. They may assume that to go ahead they need your advice first.Secondly, your advice is not as good as you think it is. By jumping to conclusion
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This weeks insights include: • How to decide when to coach vs mentor 🤔 • Book Summary: Making of a Manager 📚 • The Coaching Habit Visualised 🎨 
With Gratitude,TobyWhen to Coach vs Mentor? 🤔This week I was helping a Tech Leader improve their coaching skills. The dilemma we explored this week was when to coach vs mentor?It's common for leaders to assume coaching and mentoring are the same. However, once you start to develop coaching skills it quickly becomes apparent that ther
A summary of the big ideas from The Making of a Manager What To Do When Everyone Looks To You by Julie Zhuo: • A Managers job is to build a team that works well together, support members in reaching their career goals, and create processes to get work done smoothly and efficiently. • A manager is a specific role. Leadership is the particular skill of being able to guide and influence other people. While
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This weeks insights include: • How Keystone Habits Help You 🧱 • Perceptual Positions and the Suez Canal Ship 🚢 • April Goal Setting Exercise 🎯
With Gratitude,TobyHow Keystone Habits Help You 🧱This week I re-read Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. The book is most famous for the habit loop: Cue, Routine, Reward.What I most enjoy in this book is the focus on keystone habits. These are habits that strengthen other habits. Exercise is the most common keystone habit. If you exercise