Coaching Staff

How to Combat Stress & Uncertainty

By Kylie Denton / 13/07/2023 /

Stress and uncertainty in the workplace often stems from not holding your people accountable. When your people aren’t accountable, performance and care for work suffers, and the flow on effect causes uncertainty and stress in the work environment. The key to avoiding stress and uncertainty is to address the poor performance as soon as possible.…

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8 Critical Coaching Questions

By Kylie Denton / 06/04/2023 /

The success of a coach comes down to the ability to lean in, listen, and ask great questions. Great questions are often emotional questions, questions that go deeper than just superficial. Here are 8 essential questions that you should have in your “Toolbox of Coaching Questions“: What is it that you want to talk about…

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Mastering Difficult Conversations: Tips for Holding Staff Accountable

By Kylie Denton / 01/03/2023 /

Holding your people accountable means being brave enough to have some difficult conversations.  While holding employees accountable may sound confrontational, it doesn’t have to be.   Just remember to focus on the performance, not the person. Assume that most people genuinely want to do a good job and aren’t being difficult on purpose.   Start with a…

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2 Tips for Holding Your People Accountable

By Kylie Denton / 22/10/2021 /

If you want to become a great coach who is responsible for improving workplace culture and productivity, then there is one model that you need to know.  The GROW model is the best model for coaching leaders who want to coach for performance. GROW stands for…  Goal, Reality, Options, & Will.  This 4-step model allows you to approach coaching in a structured…

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5 Traits every Great Coaching Leader Has!

By Kylie Denton / 01/10/2021 /

I have been a professional leadership and executive coach for over 12 years and for the last 10 years I have been training leaders on how to become a coaching leader.  A question leaders ask me all the time… “What makes a great coaching leader?”  There are so many things that make a great coaching leader and I wanted to share just…

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financial planning training

Are you getting the financial planning training you really need?

By Kylie Denton / 29/11/2018 /

When I was 13 years old my father passed away from bowel cancer. Thankfully he was smart enough to take out life insurance, because without it, life would have been a lot different for me and my seven brothers and sisters. While it didn’t make us millionaires, it did allow us to stay in the…

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How To Coach To KPIs

How To Coach To KPIs

By Kylie Denton / 26/10/2018 /

For the last few weeks one area of focus for me has been working with leaders around coaching around performance, it just seems to be that time of the year! As you may have found from personal experience, many performance conversations can be challenging and downright awkward and uncomfortable. But the right way to look…

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referral partners

Are you doing enough with referral partners?

By Kylie Denton / 28/09/2018 /

Throughout my coaching, I often work with clients who have a team of financial planners. Within that team, you will have those that get a massive amount of referrals while others get next to none. What is the difference between them? Are you doing enough with referral partners? Back when I was an adviser, I worked…

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Generating Referrals

Generating Referrals

By Kylie Denton / 02/05/2018 /

Hasn’t that week flown by! I’m so excited to share Key #6 with you because it can make a HUGE difference to your business. We all understand the power of referrals. They are high leverage, they allow you to skip the time and financial investment involved with sourcing new leads and fast forward the sales…

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grow your team

Five ways to grow your team beyond you

By Kylie Denton / 25/08/2016 /

As a leader, it can be easy to think your most important role is to increase your organisation’s performance and profit, but the true goal of a leader should be to help your team become more confident and accomplished. So how do you help them to live up to their full potential? Here are five…

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