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The Coaching Cafe Podcast

The Coaching Cafe Podcast

By: Open Door Coaching
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The latest thinking from Australia's leading Organisational Coaching specialist, Open Door Coaching.© 2023 The Open Door Coaching Group Economics Management Management & Leadership
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  • Are you a competent coach? Exploring the ACC Level.
    Jul 8 2025

    After focusing on how we coach others in the past series, we’re now turning the lens inward. In this new Coaching Café series, we shift the focus to our own coaching development - starting with a deep dive into the ACC level of competency.

    ✨ What does competent coaching look like, sound like, and feel like?
    ✨ What behaviours or practices might be deemed not yet competent under the ICF Core Competencies?
    ✨ Would your coaching be assessed as competent against international standards?

    This week, you’ll have the unique opportunity to learn from Open Door’s Learning and Development Manager, Brigitte Calvert.

    With over 20 years of experience as an ICF assessor, Brigitte brings expert insights from listening to and giving feedback on hundreds of coaching demonstrations. Along with insights from Paula Jones-Hunt, you’ll get clear, practical insights into what makes a coach competent - and what doesn’t.

    Whether you’re working toward your ACC or want to refine your coaching at any level, this session will help you:
    ✔️ Understand how coaching is assessed at ACC level
    ✔️ Recognise the difference between competent and not-yet-competent coaching
    ✔️ Identify a few key areas to focus your own development

    🎯 Let’s start the new season by raising the bar for ourselves as coaches.

    Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review where ever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners.

    Watch the webinar of this episode or read the blog by visiting our website.

    Contact The Coaching Café Podcast

    • Stay up to date on our socials
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    • Check out the YouTube Video of this podcast.
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    • Email us at learn@opendoorcoaching.com.au

    Thanks for listening!

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    32 mins
  • Bringing It Home Strong - Performance conversations
    Jun 24 2025

    Over the past few weeks, we’ve focused our Coaching Café series on one of the most critical leadership and coaching opportunities: annual performance conversations.

    We’ve explored:
    ✔️ How performance conversations can build engagement
    ✔️ How coaching shifts under-performance
    ✔️ How to prepare better questions
    ✔️ How to coach through the tricky conversations
    ✔️ How strengths-based conversations can create a 36% uplift in performance

    Now it’s time to bring it all together.

    This Coaching Café is your chance to take stock, reflect, and finish strong. Whether you’ve already had your conversations, are still in the middle of them, or are preparing for future discussions - this session will help you refine your approach and apply the coaching mindset with confidence.

    Join Natalie and Paula as they share:
    💬 Key takeaways from the Coaching Café series
    💬 The biggest lessons for making performance conversations meaningful
    💬 Practical coaching reminders you can apply year-round
    💬 How coaching conversations are the key to building ongoing engagement and performance

    Let’s bring home performance season strong - and set your coaching conversations up for success all year long.

    Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review where ever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners.

    Watch the webinar of this episode or read the blog by visiting our website.

    Contact The Coaching Café Podcast

    • Stay up to date on our socials
      • Instagram
      • Facebook
      • LinkedIn
    • Check out the YouTube Video of this podcast.
      • YouTube
    • Email us at learn@opendoorcoaching.com.au

    Thanks for listening!

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    30 mins
  • Rainbows and Lollipops and Shifting under performance
    Jun 17 2025

    Recently, during a workshop, a manager said what many others are thinking: “It’s not all rainbows and lollipops. What if they are under performing? What do you do then?”

    The frustration was real, and it is common. This was a manager doing their best to support an employee but unsure what else to try; and they needed more strategies, and wanted to understand how coaching might help.

    With this in mind, we continue our focus on annual performance review season in this week’s Coaching Café Pocast.

    So far, we’ve explored how these conversations can build engagement in the workplace; frameworks and tips to set up conversations for success; strengths-based conversations and the trickier conversations.

    This week, join Natalie and Paula as we explore one of the most challenging topics: how a coaching approach can shift under performance.

    You’ll walk away with:

    • A coaching mindset/approach to address under performance constructively
    • Strategies for reframing these conversations to build ownership
    • Practical tools from Open Door you can use immediately

    Whether you’re designing performance conversations, coaching managers, or coaching an employee – you will benefit from learning how to coach around under performance.

    If you are a regular, you know the vibe and the great contribution that you make to our discussions; so we look forward to welcoming you back and offering you a value-packed 30 minutes each Tuesday.

    If you’ve not joined us for a Coaching Café Podcast, now is your opportunity to schedule this time for your professional and personal development. In no time at all, you’ll be looking forward to Tuesdays, just like we all do!

    Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review where ever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners.

    Watch the webinar of this episode or read the blog by visiting our website.

    Contact The Coaching Café Podcast

    • Stay up to date on our socials
      • Instagram
      • Facebook
      • LinkedIn
    • Check out the YouTube Video of this podcast.
      • YouTube
    • Email us at learn@opendoorcoaching.com.au

    Thanks for listening!

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    25 mins
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