The Coaching School
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.
The Coaching School
The AI Expert Rush ... Protect Yourself
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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 action leading to greater learner application a
Coaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help:
We provide many styles of speaking services:
- We provide virtual keynotes
- We specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)
- We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talk
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Why The AI Expert Surge
SPEAKER_00You know what's funny when I get on LinkedIn, I see all these posts about people now being AI experts. I see all these posts about how people want you to contact them to be their AI customer. Let me share this with you. It reminds me of the days in social media. Everybody became a social media expert. Now, I am in no way saying that this is wrong. What I'm challenging people to do is to ask really good questions. So I'll share with you at Progress Coaching. Our mission is very simple. We are building out AI automation, workflows, and products to help leaders deliver powerful human-based coaching. That's it. That's all we're doing. Now we do some other things, we play around with things, but that's our mission. I have spent four years perfecting our language learning model, perfecting the workflow, getting it better almost on a daily basis, literally a daily basis. We're still not there. Would I call us an expert in AI? No. I would say we've got some really good expertise in helping leaders coach, and
A Clear Mission With AI
SPEAKER_00we've built some tools to support that mission. And I'm going to share it. And this might tick off some people, consultants, AI people. Everybody's now an AI expert. Now I'm blowing it out of proportion, but at the same time, everybody's an AI expert. You cannot be an expert in something this quickly for a whole industry unless you have a niche. Make sure when you're hiring an AI person that they represent the niche where you have a problem. I don't say this to attack my fellow coaches or consultants or AI people out there, but when I see people that I know for a fact have no AI background, and now they've coined themselves an AI consultant. My question to you as a customer, is that for their benefit or yours? And so I've met people who will, much like other things, well, you need me for your social media. That happened years and years
How To Hire For Niche Expertise
SPEAKER_00ago. How often people will then say, you need me. You know, we where we create a fear and we use technology as a as a fear platform. What do we do? We're actually telling people straight up, you need me. You're behind. You better hire me or else. And I'm not saying that everyone's doing that. What I'm saying to the industry is that you have to make sure that the people have demonstrated expertise in the niche of where they're building AI services and solutions. Then you have to make sure that it matches your problem area or your opportunity area to improve. It's literally that simple. So one of the things that we do at Progress Coaching, if someone comes to us and says, hey, I've got two people with the following disk profiles, we have a platform that will actually build out coaching plans specific to those results and the objective of what the leader wants to do with those two employees. We have leaders who can go in and fill out a form and say, I need a coaching plan for someone who's lacking initiative. We have coaching platforms for employees to say, I want to progress my career. Could you build me a self-coaching plan? And it's all based on human-based coaching. That's our niche. It's a very unique niche. Quite frankly, it's a very boring niche. But at the same time, it's a niche where we have expertise.
Real Examples Of Coaching Automation
SPEAKER_00I'm not selling you what I'm doing is representing when I do this podcast. I'm not throwing shade at people in the industry. I'm caution and cautioning us as an industry.