Manager or Coach? Strike a Balance for Best Results

Lately, we hear more about a coaching approach being leveraged within business on a daily basis. And coaching is often celebrated as being superior to the practice of “managing.” 

So will managers go away to be replaced by coaches? Some trend reports say yes.

But I don’t see this as an “either / or” proposition. Today’s leaders will need to both manage and coach.

Read more about this on our blog. And tell us, what approach are you using in your organization?


Amy Franko | Founder & CEO

Mentorship Talk with #BizGalz on Monday

Looking to strengthen your leadership abilities through mentorship? Spend an hour with us on Twitter next week. Amy Franko will be the special guest on #BizGalz chat Monday, March 14 at 1 p.m. ET. BizGalz is a global community of women challenging limitations and making big changes.We look forward to an engaging conversation with you.

Power Up Your Vocabulary

In our work with emerging women leaders, there’s one area of communication that can be especially challenging, not to mention sabotaging. Our use of powerless words and phrases. We see it and hear it all the time, and often it’s completely subconscious.

If you’d like to improve your leadership credibility, a great place to start is by banishing weak phrases from your vocabulary and replacing them with more powerful – or at least neutral – phrases.

We tackled this topic on our blog.

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Events and News

Impact Instruction Events

March 16: Metro DC Chapter ATD - Webinar
Impact Instruction's Amy Franko will join the Metro DC Chapter of the Association for Talent Development to share insights on developing a Leader's Network and evaluating relationships and results.

May 22-25: ATD International Conference & Exhibition
Amy Franko will be speaking at this conference-- a premier event for training and development professionals, with more than 10,500 attendees from over 80 countries. Be sure to register so you can catch Amy in Denver this May.

Sept. 18-20: NAWBO WBC 2016
The Women’s Business Conference sponsored by NAWBO will be held in Columbus -- our hometown -- and Amy Franko will be presenting a session. Watch for more details soon.

Training & Professional Development Opportunities

April 4-6: Spring CLO Symposium
Explore how learning is being redefined – by our times, by our organizations, by employees, and by us.

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