Sarah Canade: Make one final or baby step towards this idea of coaching. Pick a meeting where you're just going to intentionally ask an open ended question and paraphrase so that you can actively listen. It doesn't have to be okay. If we listen, asking decently thought provoking questions can be genuinely useful in the role of coach. And if folks want to learn more, get in touch at sarahcanade.com.
Sara Canaday shares the essential skills that help managers level up their leadership and engage employees.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The surprisingly simple principles of coaching well.
2) The two types of coaching and when to deploy each.
Sara Canaday is a leadership strategist and award-winning author who helps arm professionals with the practices and strategies they need to make the critical shift from informed to influential, from doer to driver, and from manager to leader.
When she’s not speaking or working with her clients, she’s cheering on her son’s football team or hiding new shoe purchases from her husband and 20 year old daughter.