The Coaching School
The Coaching School
Tim Hagen
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.
Sidekick ... A Leader's Coaching Partner
Send us Fan Mail 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 ac...
Sep 10
5 min
Learning-Based Coaching: NEW Coaching Format Saves Time
Send us Fan Mail Learning-Based Coaching: What If Learning Didn’t End When the Lesson Ended?Organizations invest tremendous time and resources teaching people new skills. Employees attend workshops, watch videos, complete online courses, listen to podcasts, read books, and participate in leadership programs. But there is still one important question: What happens after the learning? Too often, the answer is very little. The employee completes the lesson, checks the box, and returns to work. W...
Sep 8
12 min
Do NOT Tain Leaders to Coach: If You Don’t Practice Coaching, You Can’t Speak It
Send us Fan Mail 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 ac...
Aug 30
5 min
Learning-Based Coaching ... How It Works and Why Ot Works
Send us Fan Mail 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 ac...
Aug 24
5 min
How to Use Assessment Based Coaching To Drive Performance
Send us Fan Mail 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 ac...
Aug 19
8 min
The Coaching School Method For Building Custom Plans
Send us Fan Mail 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 ac...
Aug 17
9 min
Assessment-Based Coaching In Three Steps
Send us Fan Mail 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 ac...
Aug 12
5 min
Assessment-Based Coaching That Actually Works
Send us Fan Mail 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 ac...
Aug 10
6 min
Master Class #2: Coaching Recipes That Actually Work: Using DISc To Break Down Silos
Send us Fan Mail 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 ac...
Aug 10
14 min
Assessments That Actually Change Behavior
Send us Fan Mail 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 ac...
Aug 8
6 min
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