The Coaching Skill Nobody Knew to Teach Me

About this episode

Marc discusses the essential coaching skill needed for effective hard conversations that many are not trained to develop.

Send us Fan Mail Someone comes to you stuck and you can feel the pressure to say the perfect thing. You reach for advice, a pep talk, or a quick solution, and somehow it still doesn’t help. We name what’s really happening: you’re not failing because you don’t care enough or because you “aren’t confident.” You’re missing a repeatable coaching skill for hard conversations, and most of us were never trained to build it. Marc unpacks what “winging it” looks like from the inside and why, under st...

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Hosts: Marc Hildebrand, Teresa Hildebrand

Topics covered

• coaching skills
• hard conversations
• self-improvement
• communication
• confidence

Keywords

• coaching
• communication skills
• self-help
• advice
• confidence

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