Episode 179: What You Need to Know About Taking Notes During Your Coaching Conversations

What’s the purpose of taking notes in a coaching conversation? What notes should I take? Should I send notes that I take to my coachee? 

Elena answers these questions and more in this final episode of our beginning-of-the-year mini-series designed with new coaches in mind – but relevant to anyone who engages in coaching. […]

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Episode 178: How to Prepare for a Coaching Conversation in Five Minutes

Elena shares a minute-by-minute breakdown of how you should spend the five minutes before you walk into a meeting where you will be coaching. These five steps provide you with the greatest potential for that meeting to be transformative for both yourself and your client. […]

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Episode 177: How to Set Goals with Your Coachees

In this episode, Elena shares the key to setting impactful goals with your coachees, and the secret to making goal-setting, and accountability, a healthy and productive approach. This is a must-listen episode for every coach, and anyone who is responsible for a coaching program.  […]

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Episode 175: How to Introduce Coaching to New Clients

In this episode, the third in a series designed to support new coaches in the beginning of the school year, Elena demonstrates how she introduces coaching to new coachees and then pulls back the curtains on the moves she makes. […]

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Episode 174: The Six Elements of Transformational Coaching

Today’s episode is arguably the most important Bright Morning Podcast episode to date. Elena provides the foundational knowledge that you need if you aspire to be a Transformational Coach: the six elements that define her approach to coaching. […]

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Episode 173: The Six Most Important Things to Know If You’re a New Coach

It’s back-to-school season so we’re kicking off a mini-series that will help new coaches have an excellent start to their coaching practice. In this episode, Elena shares the six most important things to know if you’re a new coach. […]

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The Ladder of Inference

The Ladder of Inference is widely used in multiple fields. Skillful use of the ladder expands a story. Expanding a story is always helpful when dealing with resistance, because resistance can be frustrating. And an expanded story helps us shift into curiosity and compassion – critical dispositions for a Transformational Coach. […]

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Episode 157: Coaching When You’re the Boss

“Can I coach if I’m the boss?”

The short answer is yes. But only if you are clear, intentional, and capable. If you are an administrator, a supervisor, or anyone who is responsible for evaluation who also wants to take a coaching stance, this is an episode you don’t want to miss. […]

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