Coachability is a collection of skills we cultivate over time. It’s the practiced habit of seeking, receiving, processing, and applying feedback to improve. Improved coachability boosts performance, builds trust, and deepens connections — for individuals, teams, and the leaders who guide them.
The Coachable Mind: How Feedback Fuels Well-Being and Growth
Getting and receiving feedback is critical to growth. It can also be a source of stress, anxiety, and fear. When we improve our ability to interact productively with coaching, our performance and well-being can flourish.
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In this interactive presentation, participants will:
- identify your own key traits for coachability;
- learn how these traits impact well-begin for you and your team;
- understand coachability with a personal definiton;
- make a simple and actionable plan to improve.
After this presentation, participants will:
- recognize the benefits of intentionally working on coachability;
- know their individual key coachability traits;
- understand their growth potential for multiple coachability traits;
- have a methodology for intentionally improving all critical coachability traits;
- feel empowered to communicate directly with supervisors, peers, and those they lead about cultivating coachability.
Cultivating Coachability: Creating a Culture for Thriving off Feedback
Successful organizations are nimble and dynamic because they have a culture that thrives off feedback. Creating this kind of culture can transform an organization into a powerful, adaptable, high performing team.
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In this interactive presentation, participants will:
- define the key coachability traits for your organization;
- assess the current position of the traits in your organization;
- understand how performance improves with a coachability culture;
- identify a three-step action plan for team improvement.
After this presentation, participants will:
- recognize the organizational benefits of intentionally building a coachability culuture;
- know their organization’s key coachability traits;
- have a methodology for intentionally improving coachability traits in the organization;
- feel empowered to communicate directly throughout the organization about cultivating coachability.
Other Keynotes and Workshops
Tailored workshops and keynotes for your organization, team, retreat, or conference. Let’s design them together. These can range from 30 minutes to multiple days.
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Interactive workshops, keynotes, and presentations:
- Stay and Grow: Using Coachability to Keep Talent
- Bounce Back Faster: Coachability in Resilient Leaders
- Future-Proof Skills: Why Coachability Beats AI
- Personal Coachability: Improve Your Ability to Improve Your Performance
- Coaching Coachability: Improve Your Team’s Ability to Improve
- Custom topics designed together!
Coachability is a skill set you can grow — turning feedback into progress. Practice it, and watch performance soar, relationships deepen, and teams connect.
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Jeff Blanchard is the Donald L. Wilson Professor of Leadership and Enterprise and Professor of Mathematics at Grinnell College. A former U.S. Army officer and current entrepreneur, Jeff has a long history of leading, teaching, coaching, and mentoring with a wide range of people. In addition to directing the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership, Jeff is a lifelong soccer official having officiated from youth to semi-professional levels including all divisions of NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA. Jeff has coached at the youth level from U6 to U19 in soccer, basketball, and Olympic style Taekwondo. Jeff is passionate about helping organizations build cultures where feedback fuels growth and well-being.