Coaching Others
After almost forty years of coaching, Bryan still asks himself whether he is any good at it. These are the posts about that question: what to ask yourself before a coaching conversation, what to ask afterwards, and why a great coach changes more than a game.
15 articles
2025
2023
The gap between good and great is smaller than it looks. Bryan Yager on golf, two restaurants, and small margins.
7 min readEvery person you meet is a teacher, if you show up as a student. Bryan Yager on what a room of executives taught him.
6 min read2020
Most people have never had a mentor, a coach, or any development at all. Bryan Yager on how normal that turns out to be.
3 min readOne way to change people is to see them differently. Bryan Yager on the gap between who someone is and could be.
3 min readFour questions to ask yourself before a coaching conversation begins, the prologue to Bryan Yager's four questions for after.
4 min readForty years in, Bryan Yager still asks whether he is a good coach. Four questions to answer honestly after every conversation.
4 min read2019
A good coach changes a game, a great coach changes a life. Bryan Yager on what every mentor who shaped him had in common.
4 min readBryan Yager's first job was photographing vacuum cleaners for a catalog. On low pay, long hours, and where a career starts.
4 min read2018
Hoarding information feels like job security. Bryan Yager on why it is the surest way to never get promoted.
3 min readBryan Yager once complained to his boss about the people he had to manage. What he heard back changed how he leads.
3 min readBryan has spent more than 45 years developing leaders, in Boise and across the country. If this is the thinking you want in the room, he works with organizations on Executive Coaching, and the same thinking runs through his book, How to Transition Into Leadership.