The Coach Approach with Lisa Kramer

Do you have a coaching culture in your business? If not, would you like to find out how to develop one? Today, we bring you a conversation with Lisa Kramer, Dr. Sabrina's very first coach. Lisa recently came on board at Tap the Potential, to facilitate the Leadership Mastermind Program.

Lisa has a free-spirited personality. She's an out-of-the-box thinker, she sees things differently, and she is a master of creating coaching cultures in businesses. In the Leadership Mastermind, she supports the business owners and team leaders who have taken the Coach Approach at Tap the Potential, and she assists them in using what they have learned to create strong coaching cultures in their businesses. Tune in today, to find out more.

Lisa Kramer is the founder and president of Leading with Intention. Since transitioning to full time coaching in 2002, Lisa has successfully coached business leaders and managers, and she has served as a mentor-coach and coach trainer for hundreds of coaches worldwide. Lisa is an intuitive listener who combines gentle directness and powerful questions that generate new insight and growth.

Her passion for coaching emerged from a successful career in clinical social work and social work education. Lisa is currently on the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas Master’s Program in Organizational Behavior and Executive Coaching where she teaches, supervises and assesses both internal and external coaches. She also serves as a leadership coach for MBA students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Lisa received her master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania and her coaching certification from the Coaches Training Institute. She is also a certified Kripalu yoga instructor, an avid cyclist, and she loves all kinds of dancing.

Lisa is the Facilitator of Tap the Potential’s Leadership Mastermind https://www.tapthepotential.com/leadership-mastermind/

Show Highlights:

  • Dr. Sabrina explains why she chose to hire Lisa as her mentor-coach sixteen years ago.
  • Lisa combines coaching skills and powerful questioning with the mindset of curiosity as a way of life.
  • How Lisa got into coaching.
  • Lisa created the Coach Approach Program. Lisa and Dr. Sabrina co-taught the course with Dr. Sabrina’s clients and from that, Dr. Sabrina adapted the program for small business owners and their leadership teams.
  • Lisa explains what a Coach Approach is, and what it means to have a coaching culture in the workplace.
  • Lisa's experience of the difference between a coaching culture and a typical business environment.
  • Learning to speak up in a way that the other person can hear it.
  • Sharing observations, rather than putting a judgment onto something, happens within a coaching culture.
  • The way that feedback is given within a coaching culture.
  • Putting heads and hearts together to come up with the most effective solution.
  • What the Choice Map™ illustrates for us and how it works.
  • Coaching the uncoachable.
  • The difference between a gossip and a conversation to help a person get clear about what's going to help them move forward.
  • Steering clear of taking on problems that aren't yours to solve.
  • Why the listener needs to have compassionate detachment.
  • Why coaches need coaches.
  • Lisa talks about the value of having supportive retreats and monthly meetings with friends.
  • Lisa talks about intuition. She explains how we can learn to access our intuition.
  • The incredible benefits of meditation.
  • Some ways to work past your fears.
  • Learning to manage your self-care.
  • Being intentional in designing a lifestyle and career that supports you.
  • It can be hard to ask for help sometimes, but it's worthwhile when we do.

Links and Resources:

Tap the Potential Coach Approach Program: www.TapThePotential.com/Coach-Approach

Tap the Potential Leadership Mastermind Program: https://www.tapthepotential.com/leadership-mastermind/

The Choice Map™ – https://inquiryinstitute.com/CM.pdf

Connect with Lisa:
www.LeadingWithIntention.com

https://www.facebook.com/leadingwithintention/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisagkramer/

Book mentioned: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

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About The Author

Dr. Sabrina Starling, The Business Psychologist and international best-selling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation™, is the founder of Tap the Potential and host of the Profit by Design podcast. At Tap the Potential, we work to free business owners from the constant demands of a growing business.

We believe work supports life, not the other way around. Clients in our Better Business, Better Life coaching program have more time for what matters most and more money in their bank account than they’ve ever had. Next, we send them off on a 4 Week Vacation™ to celebrate their hard-earned journey to take their life back!

Dr. Sabrina and her team at Tap the Potential are on a mission to change the story of entrepreneurship from one of long hours, grinding it out, to one of sustainably profitable businesses that support and enhance life. The Tap the Potential Solution™ and our Tap the Potential Family of Business Owners are disrupting small business as usual. We are on our way to making the Tap the Potential Solution™ the mainstream model for growing business.

By 2023, 150 Tap the Potential clients will have taken 4 Week Vacations. These are the trailblazers, role modeling what’s possible for entrepreneurs. In many entrepreneurial circles, it is becoming more and more common for one entrepreneur to ask another, “Have you taken a 4 Week Vacation™?” (as opposed to asking “How many employees do you have?” or “What is your annual revenue?”). Taking a fully unplugged 4 Week Vacation is rapidly becoming the recognized symbol of entrepreneurial success.

Never one to accept the status quo or back down from a challenge, Dr. Sabrina’s How to Hire the Best series grew from her desire to solve the toughest hiring challenges interfering with her clients’ growth and profitability. What sprang from her experience working with entrepreneurs in rural areas catapulted her into becoming the world’s leading expert in attracting top talent in small businesses—no matter what hiring challenges those businesses are facing—and earned Tap the Potential’s reputation as the go-to resource for entrepreneurs committed to creating Great Places to Work with thriving coaching cultures and highly engaged team members working from strengths.

As The Business Psychologist, and with her years of driving profit in small businesses, Dr. Sabrina knows what it takes to find, keep, and motivate exceptional performance out of your biggest investment—team members.