The Coaching Perspective: Recent Episodes
Doug Gfeller
Joy Casillas is a single, working mom turned author, life coach, and entrepreneur. After living the single mom lifestyle for 10 years, she has learned through the ups and downs what she wishes she’d known earlier. She is passionate about sharing this knowledge with other women who now find themselves in a drastically different world and with a dating scene alien to what they remember from their past. Her mission is to empower Newly Single Women to live big, satisfying lives by providing the information they need to stay Happy, Healthy, and Safe as they emerge into this new single world. She is the founded and CEO of NewlySingleWomenCommunity.com a place for women to access the information, resources, and support they need anytime, from anywhere.
Resources: newlysinglewomencommunity.com “Newly Single Women” by Joy Casillas (a guide book coming in 2018)
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Doug tackle’s two topics in today’s short radio show. The first explores the questionable value of off-site leadership training and the obstacles that the trainee faces when they return to their original environment. Based on personal examples, using short group training sessions followed up by individual phone coaching can dramatically increase the benefits of the training by moving the discussions from textbook to real world examples.
The second topic deals with the often discussed issue of coaches giving advice vs asking questions. It addresses the client’s question that if you are not going to tell me what to do then what is the value of the coaching. The answer to this and the issue of what the ICF Ethics Standards say should be done are looked in detail. This discussion can be applied as readily to any case where you are asked to give advice as it can be to the coaching relationship. Lots of ideas for coaches and non-coaches both.
Resources: Andrew Fox Linkedin article. Maureen Metcalf Ask Inciting Questions.
Doug and Paul Roberts of OCTalkRadio.net getting ready to go live.
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Life is full of transitions, some planned and some a surprise. Based on her personal experiences Michelle shares how to approach major transitions that occur in your life, how you know you are on the right track and what and where you can find help so you do not have to do this alone. In this very personal conversation, Michelle talks about how she handled becoming a widow, a single mom with seven children, and started her own gift company. From tragic to hilarious, she shares her stories that will help and inspire you to handle the challenges in your own personal life and in your business. Listen in as she gives tips on how to get clarity on what you want, create a vision, combine your passion and purpose in life and maintain an excitement and confidence that lets you laugh at yourself all the time.
Take-A-Ways: Be willing to be messy Be willing to ask questions Be willing to make mistakes Be willing to ask for help Take your own advice
Resources: Nifty Package Co The Widow Maven Life Coach
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Listen to this fast paced interview with Pat Fuscoe as he shares how he has retained the company’s start-up culture with a firm of over 200 people. From All Hands Meeting to Core Values and Vision to becoming an ESOP, he has fostered a spirit of teamwork and creativity that would surprise you in any firm, much less an engineering firm. His commitment to technology and constant learning has put them at the cutting edge in the use of drones, virtual reality and Watson for providing his clients with answers to questions they didn’t even know to ask. This firm may be blurring the lines of what an Engineering company does but they are laser focused on providing customer service.
Pat’s Take-A-Ways: 1. It is better to be small and great than big and crappy! 2. Growth is about getting stronger, not bigger. 3. Celebrate what you can do rather than mourn what you can’t do.
Resources: Fuscoe Engineering, Inc.
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Consolidation or “right sizing” of real estate is one of the most challenging strategies a corporate real estate manager has to address. But what can be done so that this work place transformation is less disruptive to employers, employees, tenants, and investors? One approach is the development of a one-size-fits all planning concept. This provides for total flexibility allowing teams to easily regroup or move around the facility as needed. For this concept to be successful, activity based work settings need to be included as part of the overall design solution. Whether as a reflection of corporate culture, evolving demographics, new technologies or imaginative design trends, office space keeps evolving. Ray's exceptional range of experience in commercial interiors, both as a client and service provider, gives him special insight into the evolving requirements of the contemporary workplace. Listen as Ray Irmer shares the challenges of "Work Place Transformations."
Resources: Withee Malcolm Architects
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Tina has spent her career as a team builder, facilitator, and customer satisfaction subject matter expert. She helps others to build better relationships in their personal and business life. “If your business results are a direct result of what your employees deliver and they are not getting the job done, I can help you” says Tina. She starts with the DISC personal profile, so managers and employees can understand how their difference lead to the dynamics we face every day. When you understand yourself, you can begin to understand people around you and their difference. These difference cause conflict, but that is where the managing of these different personalities really pays off for the manager as well as the teams they manage.
Resources: Tina Dipane
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Sometimes good people who fill Executive level roles exhibit off putting and downright mean behavior. Listen to this interview to find out why do some people in high level positions act so “un-human” and out of touch when it comes to the feelings of others? What causes this? What does a company need to do to the help this executive understand the big picture repercussions of their aggressive or mean behavior? Find out the answers to all these questions and more.
Resources: Power Connections Inc. “How Smart People Sabotage Their Job Search” by Susan Howington “What You Don’t Know About Listening” by Jon F. White and Alexandra Taketa
Recorded live on October 12, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show
If I had to put a label on what Camber does I would say he is a Life Coach but that really doesn’t tell the whole story. Camber says that he was born to do what he does. He didn’t take a class and learn how to be a business owner or become a successful executive or life coach, he invented it. He tell us that he has a Ph’d in results which is why he has private clients who have been with him for up to 28 years. Listen as he shares why young men are turning to life coaches and why the new leadership tool is vulnerability.
Resources: CamerHill.com
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Leisa Reid is the founder of the OC Speakers Network (www.ocSpeakersNetwork.com). After years of booking and delivering her own speaking gigs, she decided to show other speakers how to get their message heard. Listen as she shares with us many of the tips from her workshop and future book on getting speaking gigs. The first three steps are: 1. Have a presentation prepared and ready to go. 2. Have a plan that monetizes your speaking goals 3. Set a firm date for your first or next speaking engagement.
Resources: Webinar - “The 3 Keys to Transformation” Get Speaking Gigs Now Meetup
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In the process of reading “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovations” I was struck with how the same techniques for asking questions to encourage innovation also apply to how we as coach’s can ask better questions of our clients. Listen as we explore how to ask questions that describe and then disrupt the territory. We will also look at the follow up to asking questions, an area that has not been given enough attention to by coaches!
Resources:
Hal Gregersen “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovations”by Gregersen, Dyer and Christensen https://halgregersen.com/
Recorded live on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show on September 7, 2017
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It would be impossible to share with you in the brief broadcast all of the great things that occurred at the ICF Conference last week in Washington DC. However I do want to acknowledge a few of the great speakers that I heard talk and to share with you some of my personal take-a-ways. Recorded live on August 31, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show.
Resources: Hal Gregersen “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovations”by Gregersen, Dyer and Christensen
Vicki Escude “Personal Mastery” “Transformational Leadership with Humility and Grace”
Carrie Spaulding
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This presentation may sound like it is all about creating social media content, but if you listen carefully you will realize that it is really about creating relationships and real relationships are what leads to sales, referrals and long term friendships, not just social media followers! We will look at the process from how to find guests, designing the show format, using the podcast, guest follow up and social media’s role.
Recorded live on August 31, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show.
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If you are feeling stressed then you need to listen to this interview with Terese where she shares with us 5 ways to increase your self-esteem with ease along with some of the secrets behind her powerful mentorship program, Beauty for the Soul Mentorship. She mentors Modern Day women on powerful Business, Confidence and Feminine Success Strategies and Rituals.
Terese has been a successful lifestyle entrepreneur for more than 30 years and believes in the power of the “right” influence. Terese earned her 1st million dollars at 29 years old while mentoring 1,000’s of women in her businesses to develop their confidence, courage and charisma. She is a former Mary Kay Sales Director where she earned 18 infamous Cars - Pink Cadillacs, during her 28 years with the company. More information can be found at Beauty For The Soul
Recorded live on August 17, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show.
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Eric is an internationally recognized executive coach, trainer, keynote speaker and pioneer in the coaching profession. He is currently a senior trainer for the Coaches Training Institute. Eric enjoys icon status in the business due, in part, to his fearlessness in calling people forth for the sake of their learning and leadership. A catalyst for leadership excellence across cultures, Eric has delivered training programs on five continents. In this interview, Eric introduces a new and simple model that is revolutionizing how we coach ourselves, others and teams. To learn more go to The Team Coaching Zone.
Recorded live on August 3, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show.
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Dave Huxtable has recently moved to Southern California after a career in Cultural Relations working in eleven countries on four continents and picking up ten languages on the way. In this interview we will talk about Dave’s coaching practice and discuss how an understanding of the differences and similarities between people leads to success in our globalized world.
www.davehuxtable.com
Recorded live on July 13, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show.
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See Jane Go is a women-driving-women ride-hail service that offers a secure alternative to existing ride-hail services (Uber & Lyft). The company is placing women in the driver seat of the ride-hail industry by providing a same-sex atmosphere and eliminating the barriers of fear and safety in working for or using a ride-hail service. See Jane Go was conceived by Savannah Jordan and her father during a "protective-father moment". Savannah wanted the option to use or drive for a ride hail company but both she and her father were very uncomfortable with it. During that conversation Savannah made a passing comment about a women driving women ride hail option and the idea of See Jane Go was born.
Free offer: Go to seejanego.co; download the app; use referral code OCTALK by 7/31/17 and you will get a $7.00 gift card for your first ride.
Recorded live on June 29, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show.
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Would you leave a secure, stable corporate job to set up your own business and pursue untested entrepreneurial endeavors? Whether you’re an internal coach or consultant thinking about setting up your own shop or you’re tired of running your own business and wish to trade it all in to work for an established company, you’ll want to eavesdrop on this interview with author, coach, and organizational consultant, Mike Gellman, M.S., ACC. Listen in as Mike gives us an honest look at transitioning to the “other side.” How do you know you’re best suited for an inside job vs. an outside job? Is coaching essentially the same or is it different when you’re an internal vs. an external coach? Find out answers to these questions and more.
Recorded live on June 22, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show.
What motivates or inspires you? Is it a sunrise or your coach? What role do these terms play in our coaching? This is the time of the year for college graduations and part of the annual tradition is the Commencement Speech. Wikipedia says “A commencement speech, simply, is an opportunity to share your experience, values and advice.” But I think that this misses the true purpose, which is to motivate, inspire, and show opportunities; all things that we as coaches need to be doing with our clients. Things that are in fact key to ICF Core Competency number nine and number eleven. Listen as we explore how to make accountability inspiring not nagging.
Recorded live on June 15, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show.
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With fifteen great podcasts already this year on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show, how do you know which one to listen to? You may have listened to just one, or maybe started one, or maybe just noticed the title of one and thought you would come back to it later. But life happens and you never came back to it. Listen to this podcast for a quick summary of the topics, who the guests were, and the key take-a-ways. Then go back and listen to the whole interview for the full experience.
Recorded live on June 8, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show.
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Are long term coaching engagements right for you? They are if your goal is to work closely your clients. To work on not just today’s issues but on their long term challenges. Experience teaches us that having a creative idea is only half the solution. The real rewards only occur if you are able to execute your ideas. Most of us have great ideas, but need encouragement, reminders, and even a push now and then to stay on the path. Long term coaching assignments give you those opportunities.
Recorded live on June 1, 2017 on The Coaching Perspective Radio Show. Listen to the podcast at www.TheCoachingPerspective.com