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Coaching Spotlight: Meet Jessica, The Academies’ Coaching Curriculum Admin
The Academies is pleased to introduce our newest bright light and Coaching Curriculum Administrator, Jessica Burdett. We are thrilled to welcome her to the team and we’re excited for you to get to know her. Read her story below to learn more about her and her passion...
3 Ways Leadership Coaches Can Boost Psychological Safety in the Workplace
As a leadership coach, it's important to understand psychological safety and how it applies to the workplace. Psychological safety, a term coined by Harvard professor Amy Edmonson in 1999, is the belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with...
How Coaching Can Strengthen Employee Engagement
81,396 hours. This is how much time Gallup reports most of us will spend at work. But with so much time dedicated to working, how engaged are we, really, when we’re at work? According to Gallup's 2022 State of the Global Workforce Report, only about 33% of employees...
Two Foundational Coaching Courses at The Academies
Here at The Academies, we offer two foundational coaching courses to help our students learn core coaching concepts and ICF competencies. We take a unique approach in our coaching education methods using innovative teaching models rooted in neuroscience, which sets us...
Relationship-Building Strategies Coaches Can Use to Support Leaders In Remote Settings
How Coaching Can Strengthen Employee EngagementThe pandemic has forced many companies to adopt remote work policies, and it doesn't seem like things are going back to "normal" anytime soon. A recent Gallup article reports that 39% of employees worked exclusively...
Why Career Coaches Are Needed More Than Ever
It's no secret that the job market is changing. The Great Resignation that began during the pandemic isn’t slowing down as workers continue looking for ways to improve their wages, fulfillment, and overall quality of life. A recent study from the World Economic Forum...
Encourage Your Brain: How to Get Hard-Headed People to Change Their Mind
https://youtu.be/vBTttWKWh2s There’s a quote attributed to Dick Cavet that says “It’s the rare person who wants to hear what they don’t want to hear.” So the question I ask myself is, how do you get people who don’t want to hear,...
Encourage Your Brain: How Impostor Syndrome Can Give You Confidence
I’m enjoying Adam Grant’s book, Think Again. Among the many things I learned was a fun insight that might alleviate some of the Impostor Syndrome attacks that I hear about from so many of my colleagues, and that I encounter myself! Grant talks in his book about some...
Being Able to Say No, and Brava Simone
I’m betting that this message is evergreen, even though it’s birthed from today’s headlines – which is that Simone Biles pulled out of the team competition at the Tokyo Olympics. Wow. Today's message is evergreen because it has to do with being able to say no, even...
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