Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast

What does it mean to coach as a leader? How can you start? What are the most powerful questions and techniques of masterful executive coaches that you can weave into your conversations? Should you coach all the time? How do you create accountability in your direct reports? Where are you wasting your time and energy? What should you stop tolerating? What are you doing that is derailing you? What small changes can you make that change other people’s behaviours? How can you grow your team by doing less thinking for them? 🎩 JOIN ME, Sehaam Cyrene, each week as I share questions and techniques that I teach in my 5-Star Rated course including how to use coaching techniques with your direct reports and teams, powerful questions and phrases to get results, and tips and real-world experiences with Leaders Who Coach™ across industries and functions responsible for building coaching cultures and leading major transformation projects and services.

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13 hours ago

If I'm in a bad headspace and avoiding doing what feels like a boring or difficult task, what's it going to take for me to open up to you as my boss, considering I'm feeling low in confidence, a bit lost, I'm already judging myself negatively? I have no idea how I'm going to get the work done. And can I trust you to not write me off as incompetent?
How are you going to help me, your direct report? Can I trust you? Can you help me shift to a positive headspace?
I want to introduce you to the Who Energy Model that I teach in Leaders Who Coach™. This simple model is going to help you as a coach-leader build trust in every conversation you have. In a nutshell, this technique puts the person in front of you, the person you're talking with — which really could be anyone in your life — at the very centre of that. Why is that important?
Key chapters in this episode are:
Introducing the Who Energy Model™
How our human nature distracts and derails us
Why our ego stops us listening deeply
Why we avoid big feelings
The pressure to find the quickest fix
We are just reacting and coping, not responding
Positive and negative states of mind in the Who Energy Model
What tips us into negative states of mind
Five tips for asking beautifully simple questions
Questions that build trust in conversations
Questions for more complicated conversations, more negative state of mind
You make the difference in conversations
 
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...and other fine places.
 
LinkedIn EDITION https://bit.ly/454hgdv
 
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Leaders Who Coach™ COURSE ★★★★★ CPD Certified
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🥇"Transformational!"🥇"Game-changer!"🥇"Secret sauce to high-performing businesses"
🎩 https://coachlead.co/leaders-who-coach/
🎥 Watch my YouTube Playlist, Inside the Leaders Who Coach™ Course https://bit.ly/45M5lDA
 
📕 The Better Conversations RULEBOOK: Questions & Phrases Practised Daily by Leaders Who Coach™
====
My Amazon #1 Best Seller in Business Management and Leadership ★★★★★
🎁 https://a.co/d/dl0mndJ 
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Sunday Jun 29, 2025

You're joining me on the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast today to master the Coach-Leadership Conversation Arc. 
 
This is going to take the boredom, the frustration, the confusion, the wasted energy, the lack of outcome or painfully slow decision-making... basically the drag out of your conversations. 
 
And when you start to apply this Leaders Who Coach™ conversation arc consistently to more and more of your meetings, you'll be thanking me and wondering why no-one ever told you about it before now. 
Key chapters in this episode are:
 
00:00 Introduction01:16 The purpose of the coach-leadership conversation arc02:01 The 3 parts of the conversation arc — the beginning, middle and end03:38 The BEGINNING of the coach-leadership conversation arc05:02 Agreeing the meeting agenda06:32 Contracting the outcome of the conversation08:26 The MIDDLE of the coach-leadership conversation arc — exploration09:27 What to listen out for in conversations09:52 Hold back on ‘solutioning’, create ownership instead12:18 The Who Energy Model™ for Leaders Who Coach™ 13:16 Your Leaders Who Coach™ Conversation Challenge15:04 Questions ask during exploration17:36 Questions — the most powerful tool in leadership and the most underused18:43 Socrates and critical thinking skills20:24 The END in the conversation arc — designing actions21:01 Questions to ask during designing actions22:09 Nuances like giving advice or sharing additional information24:36 Banish boredom and confusion in one-to-one conversations
 
LINKS & RESOURCES I mention in this episode:
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Coaching Techniques for People Managers and Leaders
 
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🎙️🎥 LEADERS WHO COACH™ PODCAST
====
On Apple https://bit.ly/appleLWC 
On Podbean https://bit.ly/podLWC 
On Spotify https://spoti.fi/3FEamUc 
On YouTube https://bit.ly/YTLWC 
...and other fine places.
 
LinkedIn EDITION https://bit.ly/454hgdv 
 
💁🏻‍♀️ Follow me on social
====
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@sehaamcyrene 
Substack https://substack.com/@sehaamcyrene
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sehaam/  
 
Leaders Who Coach™ COURSE ★★★★★ CPD Certified
====
🥇"Transformational!"🥇"Game-changer!"🥇"Secret sauce to high-performing businesses"
🎩 https://coachlead.co/leaders-who-coach/ 
🎥 Watch my YouTube Playlist, Inside the Leaders Who Coach™ Course https://bit.ly/45M5lDA 
 
📕 The Better Conversations RULEBOOK: Questions & Phrases Practised Daily by Leaders Who Coach™
====
My Amazon #1 Best Seller in Business Management and Leadership ★★★★★
🎁 https://a.co/d/dl0mndJ  
🎁 VOLUME 15% DISCOUNT CODE ** TEAM15 ** https://bit.ly/BCRT15 
🌍 Outside UK Orders https://coachlead.co/rulebook/

Sunday Jun 22, 2025

To help us answer this episode’s focus — Explaining Coach-Leadership to Your Team, Peers and Your Boss — we start by understanding what it feels like to be a coach-leader and what it feels like to be coached by you. I go on to cover why you would explain your coach-leadership approach and how to do it.
Key chapters in this episode are:
Understanding what it feels like to be a coach-leader
Understanding what it feels like to be coached by you
Why would you explain your coach-leadership approach?
How we make things harder by rushing conversations
Understanding the Socialising Phase to build buy-in
Building a pipeline of coach-leadership advocates
Inherent responsibility of being a coach-leader
Your personal advantages and wins for explaining your coach-leadership approach
The Better Conversations Rulebook and your team discount code
How to be natural and comfortable in explaining your coach-leadership approach
How to explain your coach-leadership approach to your team
How to explain your coach-leadership approach to your colleagues and senior leaders
If you don't tell them, who will?
Creating the interest and attraction
Let’s get into this!
 
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LINKS & RESOURCES I mention in this episode:
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🎥 E001 — Why Coach-Leadership Beats Traditional Leadership and Pure Coaching https://youtu.be/VPTwqQJapwk
🎥 E002 — Uncovering the Truth: How Personal Values & Blind Spots Drive Your Leadership Behaviour https://youtu.be/T63-hSJfZos
 
📕 The Better Conversations RULEBOOK: Questions & Phrases Practised Daily by Leaders Who Coach™
🎁 SINGLE Print Order https://a.co/d/dl0mndJ 
🎁 VOLUME Print Order with 15% DISCOUNT CODE ** TEAM15 ** https://bit.ly/BCRT15
🌍 Outside UK Orders https://coachlead.co/rulebook/
 
🎙️🎥 LEADERS WHO COACH™ PODCAST
====
On Apple https://bit.ly/appleLWC
On Podbean https://bit.ly/podLWC
On Spotify https://spoti.fi/3FEamUc
On YouTube https://bit.ly/YTLWC
...and other fine places.
 
LinkedIn EDITION https://bit.ly/454hgdv
 
💁🏻‍♀️ Follow me on social
====
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@sehaamcyrene
Substack https://substack.com/@sehaamcyrene 
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sehaam/ 
 
Leaders Who Coach™ COURSE ★★★★★ CPD Certified
====
🥇"Transformational!"🥇"Game-changer!"🥇"Secret sauce to high-performing businesses"
🎩 https://coachlead.co/leaders-who-coach/
🎥 Watch my YouTube Playlist, Inside the Leaders Who Coach™ Course https://bit.ly/45M5lDA
 

Sunday Jun 15, 2025

There's a high chance your personal values are being compromised every day and your blind spots are derailing you.
How you demonstrate genuine care towards a member of your team, how you react when you don't have the answers, your use of clean language that lifts your team up instead of loaded phrases that undermine individuals, and whether in a moment of crisis you choose to seek out facts and hard evidence instead of making emotional interpretations that are unhelpful... these behaviours are all driven by your personal values, the beliefs that guide your decisions, and your blind spots, the things you do that you're not aware of.
This is foundational to who you are and how you show up, and I want you to have maximum visibility of your personal values and blind spots so you can be control of how you are showing up.
I go into all the little crevices of personal values and blind spots including one personal value that we sometimes feel awkward about owning. What happens to us physiologically and in our brains when our values are compromised? And who exactly compromises our values? 
How do our blind spots derail us from living our values and building stronger relationships, and why is it critical to our success in leadership — and specifically coach-leadership — that we know what they are?
So many questions to answer (or ask!) today!
 
FREE RESOURCES I mention in this episode:
🎥 Personal Values Exercise Video: https://youtu.be/9bRDeyzKDJU
⤵️ Personal Values Worksheet: https://bit.ly/LWC-PV 
🎥 Blind Spots Exercise Video: https://youtu.be/X9sXFYbh5Yw 
🎥 How Leading with Integrity Affects Our Reputation https://youtu.be/M3wl2-ffqKs 
 
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🎙️🎥 LEADERS WHO COACH™ PODCAST
====
On Apple https://bit.ly/appleLWC
On Podbean https://bit.ly/podLWC
On Spotify https://spoti.fi/3FEamUc
On YouTube https://bit.ly/YTLWC
...and other fine places.
 
LinkedIn EDITION https://bit.ly/454hgdv
 
💁🏻‍♀️ Follow me on social
====
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@sehaamcyrene
Substack https://substack.com/@sehaamcyrene 
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sehaam/ 
 
Leaders Who Coach™ COURSE ★★★★★ CPD Certified
====
🥇"Transformational!"🥇"Game-changer!"🥇"Secret sauce to high-performing businesses"
🎩 https://coachlead.co/leaders-who-coach/
🎥 Watch my YouTube Playlist, Inside the Leaders Who Coach™ Course https://bit.ly/45M5lDA
 
📕 The Better Conversations RULEBOOK: Questions & Phrases Practised Daily by Leaders Who Coach™
====
My Amazon #1 Best Seller in Business Management and Leadership ★★★★★
🎁 https://a.co/d/dl0mndJ 
🎁 VOLUME 15% DISCOUNT CODE ** TEAM15 ** https://bit.ly/BCRT15
🌍 Outside UK Orders https://coachlead.co/rulebook/

Sunday Jun 08, 2025

You are expected to coach your direct reports but you probably haven't even received any leadership training, never mind coach training.
I share research with you that confirms this dire state of play in leadership generally that we seem to have just accepted and the costly impact to teams, organisations and ourselves as leaders, some data about why leadership training is failing leaders, why traditional style leaders, command-and-control leaders, cannot create a culture of accountability, why pure coaching interventions for leaders are not addressing the epic problem, and I explain how coach-leadership works magic in the most common every day occurrence you know so well — when your direct report comes to you with a problem.
The demand on organisations to perform and innovate, stay ahead of the curve has never been higher — economic uncertainty, high customer expectations, speed of change with AI and automation, re-skilling people fast enough to keep up with change and adapt, and higher expectations from our people to be led better given all the knowledge out there about what great leadership should look like.
I hope to pique your interest in coach-leadership and shown you how a simple shift in your stance to responding to a problem your direct report brings to you, by holding space and asking super simple but powerful questions, you can dramatically change the outcome of the conversation and build a culture of engagement, innovation and accountability.
 
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🎙️🎥 LEADERS WHO COACH™ PODCAST
====
On Apple https://bit.ly/appleLWC
On Podbean https://bit.ly/podLWC
On Spotify https://spoti.fi/3FEamUc
On YouTube https://bit.ly/YTLWC
...and other fine places.
 
LinkedIn EDITION https://bit.ly/454hgdv
 
💁🏻‍♀️ Follow me on social
====
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@sehaamcyrene
Substack https://substack.com/@sehaamcyrene 
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sehaam/ 
 
Leaders Who Coach™ COURSE ★★★★★ CPD Certified
====
🥇"Transformational!"🥇"Game-changer!"🥇"Secret sauce to high-performing businesses"
🎩 https://coachlead.co/leaders-who-coach/
🎥 Watch my YouTube Playlist, Inside the Leaders Who Coach™ Course https://bit.ly/45M5lDA
 
📕 The Better Conversations RULEBOOK: Questions & Phrases Practised Daily by Leaders Who Coach™
====
My Amazon #1 Best Seller in Business Management and Leadership ★★★★★
🎁 https://a.co/d/dl0mndJ 
🎁 VOLUME 15% DISCOUNT CODE ** TEAM15 ** https://bit.ly/BCRT15
🌍 Outside UK Orders https://coachlead.co/rulebook/

Tuesday May 27, 2025

Maybe you know something about coaching, maybe you’ve done some coach training and want to improve your skills, maybe you’re one of my Leaders Who Coach™ graduates, or maybe you are new to the whole concept of coaching as a leader or people manager and you want to overcome your hesitation and check if it’s for you!
Hi, I’m Sehaam Cyrene and I teach leaders how to use coaching skills. Wherever you are at, my brand new (and I’m very excited about this) Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast is for you! I’m a big advocate of leaders using coaching skills, what I call coach-leadership, because of the immediate and empowering results it delivers for you and your people.
Straight from my 5-star rated CPD Certified course LEADERS WHO COACH™ that people are calling the “Secret Sauce” “transformational” and a “Game-changer”, each week I show you simple strategies, step-by-step techniques and magical questions you can start using in your very next conversation! 
Coach-leadership is a bit different to pure coaching. In pure coaching, your coach is solely focused on you. Coach-leadership is where you as a leader or people manager use powerful coaching skills and techniques with your direct reports, peers, customers, and even your boss… to help you and your team meet your responsibilities, your targets, your deliverables, often under pressure. Coach-leadership is how you get reliable results and have substantive impact that benefits ALL the stakeholders in your organisation, including yourself. 
I’m here to show you how to start coaching, how to adapt core coaching skills and techniques for your leadership role at work — realistically, whatever level your level of responsibility — where you and your team have deadlines and targets.
I show you how to get the balance right between directing, managing and coach-leading. 
How to (ONE) find the time and approach to be strategic and (TWO) how to use coaching skills to grow the capability of your people — aren’t these the two most important aspects of your role?
I show you how just one question or phrase can change the trajectory of your conversations and relationships, the techniques that move your exchanges from pointless, costly and stressful escalations to strong and healthy working relationships, even when you disagree, even when you’ve got a history of friction, and even when you’re under pressure and battling through a crisis situation.
I help you move away from the limiting and stressful command-and-control style of leadership that stifles creativity and innovation because it disengages us, creating fear, silos and toxic behaviours.
Understand what it is that masterful executive coaches do that you can replicate with your team to unlock ideas, remove resistance and diffuse escalations. 
Understand how you can be doing less heavy-lifting in leading and in fact why you need to stop trying so hard, why you need to be less responsible for how your people perform. 
Yes! When you create space for your direct reports to grow, they become less dependent on you and more accountable for themselves.
Doesn’t that sound great? Wouldn’t you like to go on holiday and know that your team is not going to be pinging you every few hours while you’re trying to have fun with your family and friends…? So you can properly switch off and recharge? Right?
Leaders Who Coach™ have this magic of drawing people towards them. They are very intentional in how they connect with us, how they create emotional commitment in us, and how they build our confidence to do more with the skills and passions that we have. 
These coaching skills can’t just be for coaches — there’s a bigger play here. 
You know, I wish this podcast was around for me earlier in my career because I’ve made plenty of mistakes.
Leadership can be so rewarding and way less stressful if we know how to show up. 
Honestly, leadership is a privilege. 
Join me, Sehaam Cyrene, on the Leaders Who Coach™ Podcast.

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