How sharp are your coaching skills? Are you providing all the answers, or do you take the time to help your employees reach their own conclusions? Great coaching conversations are extremely valuable for employee growth and performance. The good news is coaching is a leadership skill that can be developed and sharpened. With a few tweaks, a little extra time, and the right questions, leaders can enhance their coaching conversations to add deeper meaning to an employee’s development.

This week Kim and Pepper discuss the steps Pepper has taken to improve her coaching skills over the last year. Pepper shares the importance of having the right having the mindset as well as some tips on asking questions that can help leaders become a more powerful coach and build deeper relationships at work.

How are you maximizing your coaching conversations? Share with us at HeyThere@ExtraShotOfLeadership.com

Are your team members stressed, are they focused, are they ok? How do you know? With the workplace playing a central role in many people’s lives, it is important for team members to feel connected and supported by their leaders. So how do leaders balance building relationships with getting all the work done? Are they two separate things or do better relationships actually help get the work done?

This week Kim and Pepper discuss their thoughts on building relationships at work and open up about their hunger for deeper conversations. They each provide a few tips on getting the conversations started then share how these conversations and strong relationships help them to manage and guide the work.

Are your relationships with your team members helping or hurting your leadership? Share with us at HeyThere@ExtraShotOfLeadership.com

Have you ever felt like your life and leadership compass needed recalibrating? Many leaders often contemplate a reset in January as they begin a new year while others may choose the fall when the school year begins again. Don’t worry if you missed those two opportunities, because the best time for a reset is when the time is right...for you! It may be when your daily schedule is packed full with meetings, projects, after school activities, dinners, vacations, hobbies, and everything else you have said “yes, sure, no problem” to, or possibly during a life altering event. What matters most isn’t the time of year, but the time spent reflecting on where you are spending your energy and what truly matters.

This week Kim and Pepper get back to their love of podcasting and roll on with episode #101. They discuss their hiatus from the show as well as what they did with their time while the record button was on PAUSE. They each share some personal stories of why they needed a reset and how it has impacted their life, their focus, and their leadership. When was your last leadership reset and what were the outcomes from your time of reflection? Share with us at HeyThere@ExtraShotOfLeadership.com