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Coaching for Leaders

190: How to Improve Your Coaching Skills, with Tom Henschel

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tom Henschel
Host, The Look & Sound of Leadership podcast and Executive Coach, Essential Communications

When it’s a development issue (or a way of thinking) it’s coaching that’s most helpful.

Tom says that coaching needs good goals, or at least one single goal over time.

Think about the goal as if it were on video — how do you want the end result to look?

“Coaching? It’s not about you.” -Tom Henschel

“The coaching process is helping someone understand, from their own point of view, why it would be in their benefit.” -Tom Henschel

Tom shared two stories from his teenage daughter Julia that helps him with coaching.

Food for thought:

Do people see coaching as part of their jobs? Do they have time for it?

To improve your coaching skills:

  1. Let them go first.
  2. Use open ended questions, such as, “What does that sound like to you?”
  3. Earn the right to give advice.

Tom last appeared on these two episodes:

107: Three Steps To Soliciting Feedback with Tom Henschel
164: How to Handle a Boss Who’s a Jerk with Tom Henschel

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You've heard how to manage, you know something about how to lead, but oh how do you coach people?

0:07.0

Today how to improve your coaching with my friend Tom Henschel.

0:12.0

This is coaching for for Leaders, episode 190.

0:16.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. potential.

0:27.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.

0:32.0

This is a weekly show to help leaders improve their communication, strategy, coaching, productivity, and personal mastery.

0:41.5

And emphasis on the word coaching today.

0:45.0

Those of you who are very long time listeners to the show

0:49.5

might remember that this show used to be called coaching skills for leaders.

0:54.8

And interestingly, when I first started the show, almost four years ago, the show was only

1:00.0

going to be focused on that, and I realized pretty quickly for a whole bunch of reasons that the show should be a lot broader.

1:06.0

But that said, you know, we obviously talk about coaching skills on the show, but I really wanted to hit this topic head on this episode

1:15.6

because we haven't talked about it as much as we should and this is such an

1:19.9

important framework for leaders to be able to coach people and to

1:27.4

utilize good skills in order to develop others and whenever I think about

1:32.3

coaching and good coaching skills, I can't help but not think about Tom Henschel.

1:37.0

And Tom is a friend and a fellow podcaster.

1:41.0

Those of you who are part of our community have heard him before know that he is the host and producer of the show the look and sound of leadership and I know we have many people in listening audience who also listen to Tom's show.

1:53.6

It is a fabulous show and before I even started this show,

1:56.9

it was one that I listened to very regularly.

1:59.6

And Tom airs that once a month,

2:01.9

and he's an executive coach here out on the west coast of the United States and does a tremendous amount of wonderful work and I've really pleased to welcome Tom back to the show for his Tom this is your third appearance now on coaching for leaders.

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