Author: Saba Imru Mathieu

  • 6 steps to support your virtual team through change

    If you’re new to leading a virtual team, with a dispersed team also new to telecommuting, you will need as many resources as possible to help you succeed in this new mode of being with your colleagues and coordinating work online.

  • To Coach or Not to Coach

    Coaching is not only a skill-set, it’s a leadership style. It’s a hat you can put on when needed and take off when a different leadership approach is needed. In other words, leaders who coach, don’t coach all the time; they have a situational style of leadership. This means, they adapt their behavior and the…

  • Tales for Coaching

    Margaret Parkin has written a wonderful book for coaches, guiding them through the process of using story-telling in their practice. Stories can serve as powerful metaphors of the client’s situation, they may help the client gain new insights and view things from a different perspective.

  • Deep Change – Discovering the Leader Within

    In this inspiring book, Robert Quinn takes us on an inner journey to reconnect to our sense of purpose and ignite our leadership potential to drive positive change. A great read for leaders who want to re-energize in times of organizational cynicism.

  • How to coach your boss

    When you get an assignment from your boss, you can use coaching skills and open-ended questions to clarify exactly what they want in terms of end outcome and quality of execution.

  • Who Coaches Who

    Learn about the different ways in which coaching is used inside companies.

  • Comment donner un feedback efficace

      En tant que leader, il n’est pas toujours facile d’avoir des conversations constructives avec les employés. En fait, certaines personnes redoutent de s’attaquer aux comportements négatifs, ou d’autre part, elles sont avares d’offrir un renforcement positif. Voyons donc ce que font les dirigeants qui coachent lorsqu’il s’agit de fournir des commentaires utiles. Premièrement, ils…

  • Leaders who coach give effective feedback

    As a leader, it’s not always easy to have constructive conversations with employees. In fact, some people dread addressing negative behaviors, or on the other hand, they are stingy about offering positive reinforcement. So, let’s see what leaders who coach do when it comes to providing helpful feedback. Primarily, they engage with colleagues on a…

  • When to coach

    Leaders who coach choose the situation where it is most appropriate to use their coaching skills, for example when they want to help a colleague think things through and come up with their own conclusions.

  • 4Q Coaching Model™

    When someone comes to you with an idea of something they want to do, but they’re still wondering about it, instead of jumping in to give them all sorts of advice, try adopting a coaching posture by asking these 4 questions.