493: Move Coaching from Theory to Practice, with Jason Weeman

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Jason Weeman: Upwork Jason Weeman works to build meaningful relationships by creating experiences that are inspiring and transformational. He has worked for some of the top brands in the world, including Apple, LinkedIn, and Upwork. Today, he is the head of corporate learning and development at Upwork. One of the key areas of focus for his team and him is building a coaching culture. In this conversation, Jason and I discuss how his team was a catalyst for coaching culture at Upwork. We discuss what worked to influence culture in this way, what didn’t work, and the lessons they learned along the way. Key Points Be lazy, be curious, be often. -Michael Bungay Stanier Organizations are trying to create a culture for coaching, but not giving the feedback. The stronger that we develop a sense of common language on feedback, the better we get on quality. People sometimes don’t believe it should be so simple…so they try to make coaching development too complicated. Resist the urge to focus too much on data and tracking. Significant buy-in from executive leadership is critical for the success of a coaching program like this. Also, having a culture of “we” being in this together makes all the difference. Resources Mentioned Life at Upwork The Coaching Habit workshop The Last Feedback Workshop You’ll Ever Need Related Episodes These Coaching Questions Get Results, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 237) How to Get the Ideal Team Player, with Patrick Lencioni (episode 301) How to Create an Unstoppable Culture, with Ginger Hardage (episode 350) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	Getting to be more coach like yourself is one thing.
0:03.0	Changing the culture of an entire organization to do this is a whole other.
0:07.5	On this episode, How to Move Coaching From Theory to Practice.
0:12.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 493.
0:16.8	Produced by Innovate Learning,
0:19.3	Maximizing Human Potential. human potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:28.0	This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show helps
0:36.6	you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. I know the reason many of you listen to this show is because you do have a desire
0:46.5	and a heart to be a better coach. And in addition to that desire and heart that so many of us have, many of us also have that desire
0:56.4	and that hard to see more coaching and coach-like culture become a part of our organizations and more people to be able to
1:06.4	utilize the tools of good coaching in order to help develop people and to help our organizations perform so well.
1:14.3	I'm glad today to welcome someone who's been a leader in this area of helping organizations
1:20.0	become more coach-like and has had some wonderful success and is here to share a bit of his wisdom with us and how we as leaders can do a better job at this.
1:29.6	I'm glad to welcome Jason Weeman to the show today.
1:32.7	Jason works to build meaningful relationships
1:35.1	by creating experiences that are inspiring and transformational.
1:39.1	He has worked for some of the top brands in the world,
1:41.2	including Apple, LinkedIn, and today at Upwork.
1:44.7	He is the head of corporate learning and development at Upwork and one of the key areas of focus
1:49.7	for his team and him is building a coaching culture and we got introduced through our
1:54.9	mutual pal Michael Bungay Stanier. Jason I'm so glad to meet you.
1:59.6	Oh I'm so happy to have a chance to talk to you today. Thanks for having me.
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