What does it mean to coach as a leader? How can you start? What are the most powerful questions and techniques of masterful executive coaches that you can weave into your conversations? Should you coach all the time? How do you create accountability in your direct reports? Where are you wasting your time and energy? What should you stop tolerating? What are you doing that is derailing you? What small changes can you make that change other people’s behaviours? How can you grow your team by doing less thinking for them?
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#006 Who's Coachable? Can you use your coaching skills with anyone?
In this episode, I explain who you can coach and who you can use your coaching skills with as a leader, why some people are not coachable, and the top 6 groups of people you can use your coaching skills with, including your team and your boss.
As Coach-Leaders, it's important to be clear about who you can coach and why you would coach them — what's the upside for you and for them? And do you need their permission to coach them? I explain the difference between you coaching someone you work with and you using your coaching skills with anyone.
Coaching skills are fundamentally great conversation skills and people are attracted to leaders who can hold safe, non-judgmental and confidential thinking spaces for them to get their heads clear and be confident about what they need to do. There are smart strategic reasons to do this and it comes with a responsibility to act with integrity.
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00:00 Introduction
00:30 The coaching agreement and permission to coach
01:34 You need a formal agreement with your executive coach
02:36 You need explicit permission from your direct reports to coach them
03:25 Leaders Who Coach™ can use their coaching skills with anyone
04:47 You do not need permission to use your coaching skills
06:04 Not everyone in your team wants to be coached
07:00 When your direct report does not want to be coached by you
09:48 Some people are not coachable
11:38 Why I built Leaders Who Coach™
14:22 Using coaching skills with your peers can increase your influence
15:58 Your boss will love the confidential thinking space you create for them
16:43 Transform your prospect and client conversations
17:44 Grow your supplier’s capability with your coaching skills
18:32 Friends and family love coaching conversations too
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7 Jul 2025
Building Trust in Every Conversation: The Who Energy Model™ for Coach-Leaders
Sehaam Cyrene introduces the Who Energy Model, which places individuals at the center of conversations, fostering trust by addressing negative mindsets and promoting deeper listening through simple, trust-building questions.
29 Jun 2025
#004 Mastering the Coach-Leadership Conversation Arc: Key Questions at Every Stage
Sehaam Cyrene explores the Coach-Leadership Conversation Arc, detailing its three parts to remove boredom and confusion from one-on-one meetings, ultimately improving decision-making.
22 Jun 2025
#003 Explaining Coach-Leadership to Your Team, Peers and Your Boss
Sehaam Cyrene explores how to explain coach-leadership to teams, peers, and bosses, focusing on understanding the experience of being coached and building buy-in.
15 Jun 2025
#002 Uncovering the Truth: How Personal Values & Blind Spots Drive Your Leadership Behaviour
Sehaam Cyrene explores how personal values and blind spots influence leadership behavior, revealing how these factors impact decision-making and relationships within a team.
8 Jun 2025
#001 Why Coach-Leadership Beats Traditional Leadership and Pure Coaching
Sehaam Cyrene discusses how coach-leadership outperforms traditional leadership and pure coaching by creating engagement, innovation, and accountability through simple yet powerful questioning techniques.
27 May 2025
Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast Trailer
Sehaam Cyrene introduces the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast, which teaches leaders coaching skills and techniques from the LEADERS WHO COACH™ course.
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