Leader as Coach How leaders can use a coaching mindset and coaching skills to bring out the best in their employees. Leading is a meld of direction-setting, cheerleading, setting boundaries, and creating structure. Coaching provides tools for understanding and tapping intrinsic motivation, directing through questioning, and allowing people to take responsibility for their own performance. This talk presents techniques for guiding people without creating dependence. It can be customized to the audience, and consists of the lessons and anecdotes from experiences as employee, investor, and advisor to 19 startups over the last 23 years.
Every company has a culture.
There's no way to avoid it. This presentation explores what it takes to create a company culture. A variety of techniques and concerns are covered, including design of the physical space, hiring practices, and things the entrepreneur can do to shape the culture as the organization grows. When a business is a high growth enterprise, seemingly small changes can have huge repercussions. When a one-room shop expends to two rooms, it's surely no big deal.