The Coaching School

Tim Hagen
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Welcome to The Coaching School—the podcast where leadership development is taught like a cooking school. We've reimagined our long-running Coaching Conversations podcast into a practical, engaging learning experience designed to help leaders become exceptional coaches. At The Coaching School, we believe coaching isn't a personality trait—it's a skill that can be learned, practiced, and mastered. Every episode gives you another ingredient, another recipe, or another secret sauce you can immediately use to develop your people. Our Coaching Ingredients are the different types of coaching every leader should know—from one-on-one coaching and group coaching to peer coaching, observational coaching, career coaching, self-coaching, and AI-assisted coaching. Our Coaching Recipes combine those ingredients into proven, step-by-step approaches for real workplace challenges. Whether you're coaching accountability, motivation, communication, teamwork, difficult attitudes, performance improvement, emotional intelligence, or career development, we'll show you exactly how to structure the conversation. Then we share the Secret Sauces—the small coaching techniques that create extraordinary results. You'll discover powerful questions, accountability strategies, learning projects, recognition techniques, feedback models, motivational approaches, and practical coaching habits that transform ordinary conversations into meaningful moments of growth. Every episode is designed to be practical, actionable, and easy to apply. Our goal is simple: help leaders feel more confident coaching their employees while helping employees feel great about getting better. Whether you're a new supervisor, an experienced executive, an HR professional, a coach, or someone passionate about developing people, The Coaching School will provide you with the tools, frameworks, and confidence to coach more effectively. So grab your notebook, pull up a chair in our coaching kitchen, and let's start cooking up stronger leaders, stronger teams, and stronger workplace cultures. The Coaching School—where great leaders learn the recipes that help people grow.

  1. 14 hr ago

    Learning-Based Coaching: NEW Coaching Format Saves Time

    Send us Fan Mail Learning-Based Coaching: What If Learning Didn’t End When the Lesson Ended?Organizations invest tremendous time and resources teaching people new skills. Employees attend workshops, watch videos, complete online courses, listen to podcasts, read books, and participate in leadership programs. But there is still one important question: What happens after the learning? Too often, the answer is very little. The employee completes the lesson, checks the box, and returns to work. We assume that because someone learned something, they will automatically apply it. Yet there is a significant difference between knowing something and consistently doing something. That's where Learning-Based Coaching comes in. Learning + Coaching + Application Learning-Based Coaching intentionally connects three components: LEARNING → COACHING → REAL-WORLD APPLICATION Learning builds the knowledge and awareness. It can come from virtually anywhere—a podcast, video, workshop, seminar, book, webinar, or an online learning platform. But instead of stopping there, we embed coaching directly into the learning experience. After a lesson, the learner might be asked: What did you learn? What did you learn about yourself? Where could you apply this immediately? What could get in your way? What specific action will you take? How will you know you're making progress? Suddenly, we're not simply asking someone to consume information. We're asking them to think about what they're going to do with it. Coaching Becomes the Bridge I like to think about coaching as the bridge between learning and performance. Learning can tell us what and why. Coaching helps us determine how. Application shows us whether we can actually do it. For example, imagine an employee completes a 10-minute lesson on giving better feedback. Traditional learning might end with a knowledge check. Learning-Based Coaching continues. The employee answers reflection questions, identifies someone with whom they need to practice the skill, completes a real-world learning project, reflects on what happened, and identifies what they need to improve next. That's a very different learning experience. QALMS Can Drive the Application At Progress Coaching, we can use our QALMS coaching methodology to help turn learning into action: Q — Questions: Create reflection, awareness, and critical thinking. A — Activities: Give people opportunities to practice what they're learning. L — Learning Projects: Take the learning directly into real workplace situations. M — Motivator: Connect development to something personally meaningful to the learner. S — Supplemental Coaching: Continue supporting the person after the formal learning experience. Now the learning isn't isolated. It becomes a continuous development experience. Technology Makes This Even More Interesting Think about what becomes possible when Learning-Based Coaching is embedded into an online learning platform. An employee watches a short lesson. Then answers coaching questions directly inside the lesson. At the end, they complete a short assessment. Their responses can identify strengths, opportunities, confidence levels, or areas requiring additional development. Those results can then generate additional coaching for the employee—and potentially coaching guidance for their manager. The process becomes: Learn → Reflect → Assess → Coach → Apply → Reinforce → Grow And that cycle can happen repeatedly. What If Managers Could See the Learning Differently? There is another powerful advantage. Managers traditionally see learning through things like completion rates. "Tim completed the course." That's useful, but imagine instead giving the manager insight such as: Here's what Tim learned. Here's what Tim wants to apply. Here's where Tim feels confident. Here's where Tim is struggling. Here are three questions you can use to coach Tim this week. Now learning isn't separate from leadership. Learning actually creates the next coaching conversation. That's a fundamentally different model. Learning Should Produce Evidence of Change Ultimately, organizations shouldn't measure the success of learning exclusively by asking: "Did they complete it?" We should also ask: What did they learn? What did they practice? What did they apply? What behavior changed? What result improved? That's the opportunity behind Learning-Based Coaching. We're not replacing training. We're making training more actionable. We're not adding coaching as another initiative. We're embedding coaching inside the learning process. And we're not asking managers to become full-time coaches. We're giving them better information and better questions so they can reinforce what their people are already learning. Learning builds knowledge. Coaching builds insight and capability. Application turns both into results. The future of workplace development may not be about choosing between training or coaching. It may be about intentionally combining them. Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application aCoaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help: We provide many styles of speaking services: We provide virtual keynotesWe specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talkGet More Info Here:  https://form.jotform.com/241193119118149

  2. 30 Aug

    Do NOT Tain Leaders to Coach: If You Don’t Practice Coaching, You Can’t Speak It

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application aCoaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help: We provide many styles of speaking services: We provide virtual keynotesWe specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talkGet More Info Here:  https://form.jotform.com/241193119118149

  3. 24 Aug

    Learning-Based Coaching ... How It Works and Why Ot Works

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application aCoaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help: We provide many styles of speaking services: We provide virtual keynotesWe specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talkGet More Info Here:  https://form.jotform.com/241193119118149

  4. 19 Aug

    How to Use Assessment Based Coaching To Drive Performance

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application aCoaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help: We provide many styles of speaking services: We provide virtual keynotesWe specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talkGet More Info Here:  https://form.jotform.com/241193119118149

  5. 17 Aug

    The Coaching School Method For Building Custom Plans

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application aCoaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help: We provide many styles of speaking services: We provide virtual keynotesWe specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talkGet More Info Here:  https://form.jotform.com/241193119118149

  6. 12 Aug

    Assessment-Based Coaching In Three Steps

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application aCoaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help: We provide many styles of speaking services: We provide virtual keynotesWe specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talkGet More Info Here:  https://form.jotform.com/241193119118149

  7. 10 Aug

    Assessment-Based Coaching That Actually Works

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application aCoaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help: We provide many styles of speaking services: We provide virtual keynotesWe specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talkGet More Info Here:  https://form.jotform.com/241193119118149

  8. 10 Aug

    Master Class #2: Coaching Recipes That Actually Work: Using DISc To Break Down Silos

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Coaching Conversations We have created a NEW and Innovative line of books called Workplace Coaching Books. These books use QR codes with embedded audio and video lessons speaking directly to the reader. Each book comes with assessments and journal based coaching pages where they document what they've learned and what they've applied. In addition each book comes with the self analysis link that prompts them to share what they've learned and what they've put into action leading to greater learner application aCoaching Talks is a dynamic leadership development speaking series customized to your needs. Need help spreading the value and application of workplace coaching? Let us help: We provide many styles of speaking services: We provide virtual keynotesWe specialize in 4 part virtual series (we always customize)We have a unique feature called "Speaker Tracks" where we send to all audience members reinforcement lessons after the talk (to the pc or cell phone), thus keeping people on track after the talkGet More Info Here:  https://form.jotform.com/241193119118149

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Welcome to The Coaching School—the podcast where leadership development is taught like a cooking school. We've reimagined our long-running Coaching Conversations podcast into a practical, engaging learning experience designed to help leaders become exceptional coaches. At The Coaching School, we believe coaching isn't a personality trait—it's a skill that can be learned, practiced, and mastered. Every episode gives you another ingredient, another recipe, or another secret sauce you can immediately use to develop your people. Our Coaching Ingredients are the different types of coaching every leader should know—from one-on-one coaching and group coaching to peer coaching, observational coaching, career coaching, self-coaching, and AI-assisted coaching. Our Coaching Recipes combine those ingredients into proven, step-by-step approaches for real workplace challenges. Whether you're coaching accountability, motivation, communication, teamwork, difficult attitudes, performance improvement, emotional intelligence, or career development, we'll show you exactly how to structure the conversation. Then we share the Secret Sauces—the small coaching techniques that create extraordinary results. You'll discover powerful questions, accountability strategies, learning projects, recognition techniques, feedback models, motivational approaches, and practical coaching habits that transform ordinary conversations into meaningful moments of growth. Every episode is designed to be practical, actionable, and easy to apply. Our goal is simple: help leaders feel more confident coaching their employees while helping employees feel great about getting better. Whether you're a new supervisor, an experienced executive, an HR professional, a coach, or someone passionate about developing people, The Coaching School will provide you with the tools, frameworks, and confidence to coach more effectively. So grab your notebook, pull up a chair in our coaching kitchen, and let's start cooking up stronger leaders, stronger teams, and stronger workplace cultures. The Coaching School—where great leaders learn the recipes that help people grow.

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  • Creator
    Tim Hagen
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    530
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Coaching School
  • Show Website
    The Coaching School

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