Episode 275 The Coaching Effect with Bill Eckstrom
On this episode of The LeadUp Podcast, Mike is joined by Bill Eckstrom of Ecsell Institute and Ecsell Sport who is here to talk about coaching and how people can improve their coaching to help businesses, sports teams and education facilities thrive.
After a look at Bill’s background, he talks about the 4 growth activities leaders need to practice, which are stated in his book, The Coaching Effect. He highlights two things; What you do and how well you do it. Bill also explains that good leaders will do one on one meetings, give written feedback, have consistent team meetings, and work with people on career development. These things are nothing special, but vital to be good at.
Bill also talks about growth rings, which are a model for understanding how environments impact our growth. We have three rings: stagnated, chaotic, and order environments. Ideally, we want to be outside the order environments, as growth only occurs in a state of discomfort and unpredictability creates discomfort.
Bill lists for us some of the ways we can look at ourselves as leaders;
- Measure - As a leader what are the impacts that you have on your team
- Analyze and train – understand what behaviors to change to produce new behaviors
- Walk away and understand if you’re doing things differently and how well you’re doing them
- Rinse and repeat
Finally, Bill talks about what the best coaches do differently from everyone else. He explains that they let the people on their team know they care about them as individuals, which is the most critical thing, and also they create a psychologically safe environment.
You can check out Bill’s book, The Coaching Effect on Amazon, as well as all other major book retailers. You can also check out Ecsell Institute and Ecsell Sport online, as well as Bill’s personal website, billeckstrom.com.
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