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Do great athletic coaches and great trainers use the same strategies to get people to grow, exceed their own expectations, and succeed? We think they do. And a recent article that was published by Competitive Advantage supports that opinion. The article, “What Makes a Good Coach?”, outlines some winning traits of top athletic coaches. We…
“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player . . . We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” Bill Gates, founder and former CEO of Microsoft and co-director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,…
Worried you’re not getting the most from the millennials you lead? If so, transform your leadership by registering for Beyond the Obvious: Critical Skills for Leading Millennials with business leader Evan Hackel, founder of Ingage Consulting and author of Ingaging Leadership. You will discover . . . Why millennial employees are the best workers Why most of…
Jason Forrest is founder of Forrest Performance Group, creators of a powerful training approach that builds performance by coaching people to uncover and remove hidden beliefs and assumptions that limit their ability to succeed. Jason shared some of his strategies in great webinar last week, part of Tortal’s Breakthrough Ideas in Training series. We invite…
Mike Krzyzewski – Duke University’s legendary basketball coach known as “Coach K” – is one of the most respected and successful sports coaches in history. He has not only builds winning teams, he has also changed the lives of countless players, changed the University where he has spent the last 30 years of his…
In 2014, a 19-year-old driver named Sage Karam finished in ninth place in his first Indianapolis 500. He didn’t do that well in 2015 – he had to leave the race in the first lap, after another car hit him. But he returns to Indianapolis this weekend for his third Indy 500. At age 21,…
Way back in 2002, Fast Company published a case study, “Inside Intel’s Mentoring Movement,” that is still worth reading today. The author, Fara Warner, reported that Intel’s best mentoring practices included setting up “partnering relationships” between senior managers and younger trainees, having those pairs write down their expectations in “partnership contracts,” and allowing the mentor…
Ingaged leadership is a new approach to leading that I have developed. It is based on a simple concept . . . When you align people and create an organization where everyone works together in partnership, that organization becomes vastly more successful. There are many business settings where organizations can apply this new way of…
Are your trainees really using the new skills they learned in training? Here are seven strategies that can help assure that they are: During training, explain what you will be measuring later on. This sounds basic, but it can be effective. For example, if one of your goals is to have your salespeople follow…
How are training and coaching different? Training is all about teaching needed skills, knowledge and attitudes to groups of people. Coaching is delivered by one coach or mentor to one employee at a time. Its goal is to help individual employees grow, perform better, and succeed. When used alongside training, coaching can develop top…
