Scaling a family remodeling business past eight figures

Cameron Herold August 5, 2024

• Why surrounding yourself with entrepreneurs is a growth prerequisite
• Delegate anything below your effective hourly rate divided by four
• Systems belong to your managers — your job is to skill them up

Using your top strengths to lead through challenges

Coaching for Leaders August 5, 2024

• Your strengths feel easy — that's exactly why they're powerful
• One team member's strength realignment freed the whole team's capacity
• Delegation without a strengths lens silently blocks people's development

Servant leadership: listening, empowering, and getting out of the way

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Frontline staff already have the answers — stop telling, start asking.
• Clear boundaries create more freedom, not less, for your team.
• Daily ten-minute huddles turn ideas into action within hours.

How Nobel Prize-winning mentorship transfers across generations

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Nobel lineages trace back through mentors, generation after generation.
• Build careers around problems, not techniques — techniques expire.
• Micromanagement robs trainees of the confidence to succeed alone.

How to discover what people actually want as a leader

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• All human motivation reduces to two needs: safety and self-esteem
• People rarely reveal true wants — trust must be earned before they open up
• Familiarity and similarity are the fastest routes to the trust that unlocks honesty

Leadership lies that cause managers to overwork and overstress

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Why the rule 'do everything on the list' is the root lie
• Emotions at work aren't unprofessional — suppressing them is costly
• Not knowing the answer instantly is not a leadership failure

Four ways leaders positively influence others and how to pay it forward

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Research found four distinct styles of positive influence leader, not one.
• The most powerful act: seeing potential in someone they can't see themselves.
• Paying it forward traces back to Benjamin Franklin, not the movie.

493: Move Coaching from Theory to Practice, with Jason Weeman

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

How to turn daily interruptions into leadership moments

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Your interruptions aren't blocking the work — they are the work
• 30,000 handwritten notes built loyalty no strategy deck could
• Six words from a professor shaped 40 years of leadership

Motivation, managing up, and mentoring veterans: Q&A with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Asking 'what motivates you?' rarely works — observe instead
• Triangulation from senior leaders is a system problem, not personal
• Help veterans translate military skills into business language

The truth about performance management: coaching over appraisals

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Combining pay decisions and coaching in one conversation undermines both.
• Managers can coach effectively in 10 minutes — no extra time required.
• No performance system is ever finished; continuous iteration is the model.

How Microsoft built a coaching culture across a global organisation

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Coaching as a daily manager behaviour, not an executive perk
• Why 86% of graduates stayed engaged weeks after the course ended
• Choosing the wrong conversation type — coaching vs teaching — derails confidence

How to define and align employees to the soul of their role

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Employees don't lack information about their role — they lack emotional ownership
• Four questions reveal what a role truly demands beyond its job description
• Knowing decision-making rights makes employees feel trusted and engaged

How to delegate work effectively: a seven-step framework

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Front-load the work: most delegation failures happen before anyone starts
• Let the delegatee own the plan — fixing minor gaps kills their motivation
• Overloading your best performer is a fast path to losing them

How to lead a remote team: principles that have not changed in 25 years

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Your team perceives you as less present than you think you are.
• Checking in and checking up are different — set expectations upfront.
• Informal early warnings vanish remotely; problems surface only when they blow up.