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Coaching and Licensing: Your (Not So Secret) Weapon

October 21, 2020 by David Kay

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Coaching is a critical enabler for KCS, and a robust licensing model is an essential means to insure knowledge quality.  The KCS Practices Guide, the KCS Adoption Guide, and in various posts in this blog hammer this point home.  When we work with a team practicing KCS to do a KCS Tune Up, our most […]

Filed Under: Coaching, KCS

Picking the Right KCS Coaches

September 24, 2018 by David Kay

We’re doing a webinar with the KCS Academy called KCS in Action: Coaching and Licensing on October 2.  In this blog post, we’re providing a sneak preview of one of the topics we’ll be covering: picking KCS coaches. We have never been part of a successful KCS implementation that didn’t also have a healthy coaching […]

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KCS: Prove Real Value, Real Quick

August 14, 2014 by Jennifer Crippen

The Leap of Faith Many organizations struggle with the ability to implement quickly and successfully, and to deliver benefit. We helped one customer demonstrate KCS success quickly, proving value and supporting their ongoing commitment to KCS. Like many support organizations today, our customer is under pressure to do more with the resources they have. This […]

Filed Under: Coaching, Culture, KCS

Why Train KCS Coaches?

February 25, 2013 by David Kay

A client working to justify the expense of coach training asked for a risk assessment of not training her coaches.  I thought that was an excellent question.  Having given it some thought, here’s my response, captured and shared in the workflow. There are three critical success factors for KCS: Engaged executive sponsorship Measuring the right […]

Filed Under: Coaching, KCS

Communicating the What and the Why: Intuit Does it Right

March 5, 2012 by David Kay

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    Effective, persistent communication is the cornerstone of KCS.  Team members need to be engaged emotionally—to feel like they’re part of a big, important quest—and practically—knowing exactly what they need to do. Rather than saying anything more about this, I’m going get out of the way and let one of our customers show you.  […]

Filed Under: Coaching, Culture, KCS, Lynchpins

The Power of Appreciation

June 22, 2011 by David Kay

Really, it seems too good to be true.  If you heard about this in an email, you’d mark it as spam immediately.  “You’ll feel better, make the people around you feel better, improve relationships at work and at home, and make people more likely to listen to you.” Sure…do you have a Nigerian millionaire’s estate […]

Filed Under: Coaching, Culture, KM

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