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| I’m not sure it’s my role - breaking down the barriers to mental health conversations in the workplace | 15 Oct 2024 | 00:32:46 | |
‘I’m not sure it’s my role’, was a comment we received recently during a presentation on mental health conversations in the workplace.
We may notice that a work colleague or client is not their normal self. Perhaps their behaviour has changed or the language they are using and their demeanour is different.
But the person in the workshop was worried that they didn’t really ‘feel it was their place’ to approach the person.
It's not uncommon to wonder whether it’s your job to start a mental health conversation or actually how to do that. Alternatively, whether you should get others involved, for example HR.
In addition, as a manager or coach, when do you take off your coaching hat, and focus on a mental health conversation?
Thursday 10th October marked World Mental Health Day (WMHD) 2024 in Australia and the WHO states that World Mental Health Day is an opportunity to ‘raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilise efforts in the support of mental health.’ And the official theme of WMHD is:
It is Time to Prioritize Mental Health in the Workplace
Therefore, we thought we’d use the Coaching Café to focus mental health conversations in the workplace. So join Natalie and Paula as they focus on mental health in the workplace and talk about the role we can play, including what to say, what not to say and overcoming barriers to the conversation. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Breaking down the barriers to mental health conversations in the workplace | 09 Oct 2024 | 00:33:35 | |
Breaking down the barriers to mental health conversations in the workplace
Thursday 10th October marks World Mental Health Day (WMHD) 2024 in Australia and the WHO states that World Mental Health Day is an opportunity to ‘raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilise efforts in the support of mental health.’ And the official theme of WMHD is:
It is Time to Prioritize Mental Health in the Workplace
At Open Door we are obviously super happy to hear this theme; given as an Alumni it is something we have all focussed on for many years. In our Coaching Café we have heard from people with lived experience, talked about a coaching approach and the boundaries between coaching and other support services and trained 100’s of people in mental health conversations. We have also supported Organisations who advocate and support people in mental health, through our fitness and fundraising efforts like the Push Up Challenge and The Black Dog Institute’s One Step Forward.
We can all be proud of these efforts as an Alumni. And, we can continue the work and the advocacy.
Therefore, we thought we’d use the Coaching Café for the next couple of weeks to focus mental health conversations in the workplace. In particular, raising awareness around the barriers to mental health conversations. And importantly, how to overcome the barriers.
Join Natalie and Andrew Figtree (former Group Captain for the Air Force) for the Coaching Café and in particular, Figgy will bring his experience as a Mental Health First Aid practitioner, Air Force coach and veterans affairs advocate, to give us some ideas about how to break down barriers to mental health conversations. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Coaching demonstration – a deeper dive into the more subtle ICF Core Competencies | 11 Jun 2024 | 00:31:32 | |
Over the past two weeks in our Coaching Café we were delighted to bring you another opportunity to learn from a coaching demonstration. By listening to another coaching demonstration by Brigitte, we build on the foundations that we have been exploring over the past few weeks, and hear the ICF Core Competencies come to life. On Friday 31st may we explore the difference between ACC and PCC coaching. Building on this, join us this week in the Coaching Café we as debrief the recording through the lens of the ICF Core Competencies. In particular we will take a deeper dive into the more subtle competencies, for example: #4 Cultivates Trust and Safety, #5 Maintains Presence and #7 Evokes Awareness . Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Teaser - stay tuned for The Coaching Cafe podcast! | 15 Apr 2021 | 00:00:42 | |
We're gearing up bring you the latest thinking from the coaching world. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Coaching demonstration – the difference between ACC and PCC competencies | 05 Jun 2024 | 00:28:17 | |
Last week in our Coaching Café we were delighted to bring you another opportunity to learn from a coaching demonstration. By listening to another coaching demonstration by Brigitte, we build on the foundations that we have been exploring over the past few weeks, and hear the ICF Core Competencies come to life.
This week for the Coaching Café, join us we as debrief the recording through the lens of the ICF Core Competencies and in particular the difference between ACC and PCC coaching. This is a coaching demonstration that will open your eyes to what it really means to stretch your coaching skills from Level 1 ACC coaching to the higher levels and what difference that makes to your client.
Importantly, to get the most out of this session we recommend that you listen to the recording ahead of time and download the transcript. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| What does PCC-MCC coaching sound like? | 30 May 2024 | 01:05:29 | |
International Coaching Week gives us an opportunity to reflect on ourselves as coaches and on our workplace coaching practice. And one of the best ways to do this is to listen to great coaching. In fact, one of the most popular requests we receive is for coaching demonstrations; in particular for PCC or MCC level coaching. Therefore, in this very special presentation as we listen to coaching by Brigitte Calvert our Learning and Development Manager. We will do this through the lens of the ICF Core Competencies. Importantly, this is a coaching demonstration that will open your eyes to what it really means to explore, evoke awareness and partner with a client. We guarantee some of the questions that Brigitte asks in the moment with intuition will really leave you saying ‘wow’. Furthermore, to get the most out of this learning experience we recommend you can download the transcript ahead of time. In addition, download the ICF Core Competencies. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| The beliefs and behaviours of ‘exemplar’ coaches | 29 May 2024 | 01:01:55 | |
As an Alumni we enjoy listening and learning from the experts. In particular, Open Door has a reputation of introducing and exposing our Alumni to international speakers and leaders in the field of workplace coaching. This presentation celebrating International Coaching Week continues this tradition. Listen to this very special presentation for International Coaching Week, as Natalie interviews Professor Emerita Andrea D. Ellinger, from The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Coaching demonstration - bringing the ICF Core Competencies to life | 28 May 2024 | 00:51:23 | |
Firstly, thanks to all of you who joined us for our SUPER TUESDAY International Coaching Week events and for all your feedback. We hope that you learned and celebrated as much as week did, as we listened to the pioneers in coaching academic research, Professor Emerita Andrea D. Ellinger and Professor Grace McCarthy, along with a coaching demonstration from our very own Learning and Development Manager, Brigitte Calvert, PCC. You can catch up on the presentations on our blog or podcast. Secondly, based on your feedback we are delighted to bring you another opportunity to learn from a coaching demonstration. By listening to another coaching demonstration by Brigitte, we will build on the foundations that we have been exploring over the past few weeks, and hear the ICF Core Competencies come to life. Therefore, join us this week for the Coaching Café Podcast, as we listen to the recording with the transcript (we recommend you download the transcript ahead of time). And then over the next two weeks we will debrief the recording through the lens of the ICF Core Competencies. This is a coaching demonstration that will open your eyes to what it really means to explore, evoke awareness and partner with the client. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Coaching Agreements – going beyond what do you want to achieve? | 14 May 2024 | 00:37:36 | |
We know that every coaching session needs to include the question ‘what do you want to achieve?’ (or some form of that question). We are taught that from day one of our coaching education. And from an ICF Core Competency perspective it is a critical part of establishing the coaching agreement. But we also know there’s more to establishing and maintaining a coaching agreement than just this question. Therefore, building on our theme of exploring the ‘ICF Core Competencies’, this week in the Coaching Café join Natalie and Paula as we discuss ‘Establishes and Maintains Agreements’. We will look at what it means from a competency point of view, but also provide some pertinent reminders about inserting certain questions into the coaching conversation to meet this competency. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| What is a coaching mindset? | 07 May 2024 | 00:32:26 | |
Developing a coaching mindset is a key outcome of all coaching programs. We want people to walk out of coach training program having developed a coaching mindset…or least being open to a coaching mindset or on their way. And it’s not something that is a given, or that we can take for granted. Nor is coaching mindset fully understood, hence Natalie including it as part of her Doctorate studies.
Therefore, building on our theme of exploring the ‘ICF Core Competencies’, this week in the Coaching Café join Natalie and Paula as we discuss ‘Embodies a Coaching Mindset’. We will look at what it means from a competency point of view, but also discuss things that might get in the way of a coaching mindset.
This series is perfectly timed in the lead up to International Coach Week (13th – 19th May 2024), to give us an opportunity to reflect on ourselves as coaches and on our workplace coaching practice. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Ethics in coaching – the instant ‘fail’ at any level of ICF credential | 30 Apr 2024 | 00:30:10 | |
In the assessment of a coaching demonstration (known as the ICF Performance Evaluation) across the different levels of ICF credential, the competency of ‘Demonstrates Ethical Practice’ clearly states what a ‘fail’ would look like – that is, where a credential at any level would be denied.
With this in mind, we are digging back into our theme of exploring the ‘ICF Core Competencies’, specifically around ethics. This series is perfectly timed in the lead up to International Coach Week (13th – 19th May 2024), to give us an opportunity to reflect on ourselves as coaches and on our workplace coaching practice.
Therefore, join the Natalie, Paula and Brigitte for this interactive Coaching Café discussion as we sharpen up our coaching skills by exploring what an ‘instant fail’ in a coaching demonstration would look/sound/feel like. And of course, how to avoid that situation in your coaching. In particular, we tap into Brigitte’s knowledge and experience as an Assessor at the ICF PCC level for nearly 20 years. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Ethics in coaching – the importance of values | 23 Apr 2024 | 00:29:29 | |
Over the past few weeks in our Coaching Café we’ve been out exploring the ‘wild west’ of coaching. In particular, the use of AI in Coaching. If you’ve not joined us for a Coaching Café, now is your opportunity to schedule this time for your professional and personal development. In addition, you have the opportunity to collect ICF CCEU’s for FREE. In no time at all, you’ll be looking forward to Friday lunchtimes, just like we all do! Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Will AI replace us as coaches? | 16 Apr 2024 | 00:32:24 | |
We hope you had a refreshing and energising break! Join Natalie and Paula Jones-Hunt our Resident HR Specialist for this interactive Coaching Café discussion as we present the research, current thinking and of course, open up the discussion to our Alumni. If you are a regular, you know the vibe and the great contribution that you make to our discussions; so we look forward to welcoming you back and offering you a value-packed 30 minutes each Tuesday. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Managing strong emotions in coaching | 24 Sep 2024 | 00:31:20 | |
‘Have you ever had anyone cry in the coaching session?’
The answer is yes, it does happen.
Not too often.
But whether it is disappointment, frustration, anger or alternatively joy, relief or enthusiasm, in our coaching practice in the workplace, we need to be aware of how to manage strong emotions, in our coachees and in ourselves.
We have covered a number of topics over the past weeks to explore real workplace coaching scenarios, including: coaching when people have too much on their plates, coaching when you know the answers and coaching ‘when it is easier to do it myself’ and when is it ‘not the right time for coaching?’ and coaching upwards. Throughout these conversations we have explored the role of coaching, coaching principles and ICF competencies and great coaching questions.
With this in mind, join us for this Coaching Café where wrap up the series on exploring very real workplace coaching scenarios. We will focus on an important topic – managing strong emotions in coaching and reflect on how to hold the space for the coachee and for ourselves. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| What if AI can make my coaching better? Putting AI to the test | 26 Mar 2024 | 00:33:24 | |
‘What if AI can make my coaching better?’, I asked. ‘What would that look like? What difference would that make to my coaching?’. ‘Only one way to find out!’ I thought, ‘let’s put it to the test’. This week in our Coaching Cafe we continue to discuss a key trend in coaching: the use of AI in coaching. And we turn our thinking to: how we can use AI for continuous improvement in our coaching – specifically to make us better coaches. And to do this we will take Natalie’s actual transcripts of PCC level recordings and ask AI for feedback on how the coaching could be improved. So join Natalie and Paula Jones-Hunt our Resident HR Specialist for this eye-opening Coaching Café, to find out the results of how AI can make us a better coach, including at the top levels of ICF competency. If you are a regular, you know the vibe and the great contribution that you make to our discussions; so we look forward to welcoming you back and offering you a value-packed 30 minutes. If you’ve not joined us for a Live Coaching Café, now is your opportunity to schedule this time for your professional and personal development. In addition, you have the opportunity to collect ICF CCEU’s for FREE. In no time at all, you’ll be looking forward to Friday lunchtimes, just like we all do! Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| The use of AI in Coaching - The HR function and Coaching | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:28:23 | |
‘That resume was clearly written by AI’, said one of our clients recently. ‘The issue is that when the candidate interviewed, they were terrible….that’s where good coaching questions come into it’. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| The use of AI in coaching (why we shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand) | 11 Mar 2024 | 00:42:34 | |
In discussing key trends for 2024 in coaching we agreed that the use of AI in coaching is in the top three. Luckily, you do not have to be a ‘technological guru’ to understand how artificial intelligence is influencing coaching, and we feel it’s not something that we can ignore. So this week we kick off a new round of discussions specifically thinking about the impact of AI on coaching. Join Natalie and Paula for this Coaching Café discussion as we explore and pros and cons of the use of AI and why coaches in the workplace need to not bury their heads in the sand over this trend. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Burnout - what are we actually doing? | 04 Mar 2024 | 00:31:12 | |
In discussing key trends for 2024 in coaching we agreed that prevalence of mental health concerns and burnout in the workplace will be a major concern. In addition, the legislative response that enshrines the ‘right to disconnect’. And last week Paula introduced us to this discussion. However, fresh from a week away (yes that’s a photo from her holidays above), it occurred to Natalie, with all this discussion and ‘prevalence’ what are we actually doing about it? What steps are we taking to ensure our mental health and prevent burnout as leaders, managers, coaches and in our many roles? What are the barriers that our clients (and ourselves) from taking real action? What does good coaching look like around this topic? Join Natalie and Paula for this Coaching Café discussion as we also think about the role of coaching and coaching tools to apply to the topic. If you are a regular, you know the vibe and the great contribution that you make to our discussions; so we look forward to welcoming you back and offering you a value-packed 30 minutes each Friday. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Trends in Coaching 2024 | 20 Feb 2024 | 00:31:28 | |
Welcome to the Coaching Café series for 2024! Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| 2023 in Coaching Café’s | 05 Dec 2023 | 00:30:13 | |
Wow where did the year go? It feels like we blinked and now it’s December 😊 But we have achieved a lot together as an Alumni. Including: 30 Coaching Café’s, 7 guest speakers, and 20th Birthday celebrations. In addition, we reviewed the ICF Global Study and focussed on building workforce engagement. Not to mention, great discussion and a focus on our development. As we wrap up the year in Coaching Café’s, we take the time to revisit the trends that we saw throughout the year. In particular, what this means for our workplaces and coaching moving forward. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| How leaders build engagement – exploring positive duty with guest speaker Leisa Bowness | 21 Nov 2023 | 00:26:11 | |
At Open Door we are keen to learn from the leaders in our workplaces who are making a difference. And we continue our conversation this week around building engagement in the workplace, by welcoming back to the Coaching Café, Leisa Bowness, Manager Organisational Capability from Resources Safety & Health Queensland. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| How leaders build engagement with guest speaker Andrew 'Figgy' Figtree | 14 Nov 2023 | 00:31:26 | |
At Open Door we are keen to learn from the leaders in our workplaces who are making a difference. In particular, we continue our conversation this week around building engagement in the workplace. Therefore, we welcome back to the Coaching Café, Andrew ‘Figgy’ Figtree, former Group Captain with Air Force. Open Door has had a long association with Air Force building a coaching culture and delivering the Air Force Coaching Leadership Program. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Focus on strengths-based coaching to turn around poor engagement | 07 Nov 2023 | 00:30:45 | |
We know that coaching can achieve a 73% improvement in engagement and 36% uplift in performance using strengths-based conversations.
And this is really important, when you consider Gallup’s recent report on the State of the Australian and New Zealand Workplace says engagement in our workplaces is only 20%, with 67% of employees in Australia and New Zealand ‘quiet quitting’ and 13% actively disengaged.
We know that the 67% of our workforce who are quiet quitting are ‘winnable’. But what does it really mean to focus on strengths?
Join us for our Coaching Café as we focus on building engagement using strengths-based coaching.
And to assist the conversation we are offering a one-time offer for you to purchase your own strengths profile at a 40% discount. Open Door uses one of the leading strengths profile called StrengthscopeTM and you can purchase the report for only $130.00!
Purchase your StrengthscopeTM report $215.00 now $130.00 for one week only. That’s 40% off! Use the coupon code: ENGAGE
Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Workforce engagement at 20%? Let's get the conversations going | 01 Nov 2023 | 00:27:09 | |
We know that coaching can achieve a 73% improvement in engagement and 36% uplift in performance using strengths-based conversations. And this is really important, when you consider Gallup’s recent report on the State of the Australian and New Zealand Workplace says engagement in our workplaces is only 20%, with 67% of employees in Australia and New Zealand ‘quiet quitting’ and 13% actively disengaged. We know that the 67% of our workforce who are quiet quitting are ‘winnable’. But what does it really mean to focus on strengths? Join us for our Coaching Café as we focus on building engagement using strengths-based coaching. And to assist the conversation we are offering a one-time offer for you to purchase your own strengths profile at a 40% discount. Open Door uses one of the leading strengths profile called StrengthscopeTM and you can purchase the report for only $130.00! Purchase your StrengthscopeTM report $215.00 now $130.00 for one week only. That’s 40% off! Use the coupon code: ENGAGE We will use the reports as a basis for our Coaching Café conversation and you will get insights into your own strengths and how to leverage the strengths of others to build engagement. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Shifting under-performance through coaching | 09 Sep 2024 | 00:35:04 | |
‘These tools are really great, but can you use the tools to coach someone who is under-performing?’ It’s another question that we often get asked during our coaching programs and we have a very strong opinion on the answer, which is: YES. In fact, coaching could be the ‘make or break’ difference between an increase or further decline in a person’s performance. With this in mind, join us for this Coaching Café where we continue our theme of Coaching Cafes: exploring very real workplace coaching scenarios; and we focus on Shifting under-performance through coaching Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Overcoming the barriers to mental health conversations | 09 Oct 2023 | 00:33:22 | |
If you managed to take a holiday over the past few weeks, we hope you’ve had a refreshing break and we are pleased to be back after ‘spring break’ for our Coaching Café. Tuesday 10th October marks World Mental Health Day 2023 in Australia and the WHO states that World Mental Health Day is ‘an opportunity for people and communities to unite behind the theme ‘Mental health is a universal human right’ to improve knowledge, raise awareness and drive actions that promote and protect everyone’s mental health as a universal human right.’ So we thought we’d kick off our Coaching Café season on Friday 13th October with a focus on mental health conversations in the workplace, in particular, raising awareness around the barriers to mental health conversations. And importantly, how to overcome the barriers. Join Natalie and Andrew Figtree (former Group Captain for the Air Force) for the Coaching Café and in particular, Figgy will bring his experience as a Mental Health First Aid practitioner, Air Force coach and veterans affairs advocate, to give us some ideas about how to break down barriers to mental health conversations. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Inspirational case study: coaching young people at risk | 04 Oct 2023 | 00:46:08 | |
This week on the Coaching Café we have inspirational story to share with you, around how coaching can work across different environments, cultures and people. A story of where coaching meets hope for the future, through coaching young people at risk. We often hear ‘I don’t think coaching will work’ in this situation, for those people or in our organisation. And wherever we hear this, we just think about Melbourne City Mission. The coaches at Melbourne City Mission are coaching young people at risk. And we truly feel if they can make a difference in this way, then we are pretty sure coaching is going to work in your particular corporate environment. We just have to figure out how. So join Natalie as she interviews Andrea Hutton, Team Leader from Melbourne City Mission. Andrea brings 37 years of experience working with young people in crisis, facing homeless with deep trauma and complex mental health issues. In her service to young people, she weaves in coaching questions, building accountability and resourcefulness in the young people, and opening up choice. Andrea says: ‘It’s easy for people to dismiss the value of coaching when you are faced with significant barriers and challenges; so I hope I can sway people to open their minds to looking at things differently.’ Get ready to be touched and inspired by the story of how coaching builds hope and get ready to take some notes, because the lessons that Andrea shares will be applicable across all the coaching we are doing. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Best practice case study: broadening the reach of coaching across very different environments | 19 Sep 2023 | 00:30:19 | |
This week on the Coaching Café we speak with Ian Scott, a distinguished leader with 36 years of experience in the Royal Australian Air Force to explore the intricacies of building a coaching culture across very different environments and the remarkable impact it can have. However, what sets Ian apart is his transition into various roles beyond the Air Force. He has become an accomplished facilitator, workplace and business coach, and a licensed mental health first aid practitioner. Ian has also taken on the role of developing leadership coaching programs for commanders in the Air Force, as well as executives and managers. His extensive work, both locally and globally, with Rotary International further exemplifies his dedication to community service. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Coaching Culture – Creating the ‘force multiplier’ effect in coaching | 11 Sep 2023 | 00:32:08 | |
Best practice suggests that the implementation of a Leader as Coach or Manager as Coach program into organisations, provides the essential catalyst for the rollout of coaching. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Best practice in building a coaching culture – is it even possible? | 21 Aug 2023 | 00:32:48 | |
This week in our Coaching Café we kick off a series of looking at best practice in building a culture of coaching within our organisations.
Many of us across the Open Door Coaching Alumni are involved in introducing coaching into teams, business units and into the organisation, with the view of creating a culture of coaching in the workplace. However, some people ask: ‘is it even possible’ or ‘is that what we should be aiming for?’ and ‘if that’s what we want…well how do you go about it?’
In this webinar, Natalie and Paula take us back to the Coaching Culture FrameworkTM which is being used as the best practice framework to underpin the implementation of coaching in many organisations, and is featured in our Diploma of Organisational Coaching (10835NAT) program.
Join us as we explain: What is a coaching culture? Why is it so important? And share the Framework for implementation. It is also a good chance to review what’s happening in your organisation against best practice.
Get ready to be inspired! Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Mental health conversations in the workplace - I don't have 10 minutes to myself | 14 Aug 2023 | 00:32:02 | |
I’m juggling so many things (mental health conversations in the workplace) ‘I’m just juggling so many things’, is a common comment that we hear in coaching conversations. We are all juggling work commitments, on top of looking after our teams, home, family, physical and mental health and the list goes on. Add the pressure of competing deadlines and priorities and the juggling becomes even more challenging. For some, there is a feeling of not even having 10 minutes of time for myself. And we hear: ‘I’m looking after everyone else…who’s looking after me?’ Join Natalie and Paula and wider Open Door community as we continue our discussions about mental health in the workplace. We will take a break from the juggling, to discuss coaching strategies and a positive mindful approach to focus on ourselves. We can almost guarantee that you’ll feel a lot better after this webinar! Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Mental health conversations – I’m not sure it’s my role | 08 Aug 2023 | 00:32:06 | |
‘I’m not sure it’s my role’, was a comment we received recently during a presentation on mental health converastions in the workplace. We may notice that a work colleague or client is not their normal self. Perhaps their behaviour has changed or the language they are using and their demeanour is different. But the person in the workshop was worried that they didn’t really ‘feel it was their place’ to approach the person. It’s not uncommon to wonder whether it’s your job to start a mental health conversation or actually how to do that. Alternatively, whether you should get others involved, for example HR. In addition, as a manager or coach, when do you take off your coaching hat, and focus on a mental health conversation? During our Coaching Café this week join Natalie and Paula as they focus on mental health in the workplace and talk about the role we can play, including what to say, what not to say. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Getting a 36% uplift in performance from quality performance conversations | 04 Jul 2023 | 00:27:02 | |
Research suggests that when managers focus on strengths during performance this can lead to an uplift of 36.5% in performance. In addition, engagement increases, productivity increases and absenteeism decreases. When we first heard these statistics many years ago now, we simply said, ‘tell me more!!!’ and it opened the doors (pardon the pun) to developing our strengths-based approach to coaching. Today, a strengths-based approach to coaching has never been more important. There’s a lot of fatigue happening in our workplaces; people are feeling under-valued and tired. And this is where coaching really comes in handy. Particularly when it comes to the annual performance review and ensuring that people are feeling energised by the conversation. There is a lot we can do to coach our managers and team members to have successful strengths-based performance conversations. And to create a real and lasting positive impact. So join us for this Coaching Café where we will share how the strengths-based approach really works for the annual performance conversation. Whether you are involved in developing annual performance systems, coaching managers, a manager embarking on the performance season, or getting yourself ready for your own performance review, this is a webinar that we are all going to benefit from. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Managing tricky performance review conversations | 27 Jun 2023 | 00:31:05 | |
We continue our focus on getting ready for annual performance reviews during our Coaching Café this week. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve looked at key tips and a framework to set those conversations up for success. This week we turn our attention to the trickier performance conversations. We were recently asked by a frustrated manager: What do you do about the people who think they are meeting expectations, but they aren’t? Or they don’t have goals? Don’t really care? Aren’t prepared or are just working out to retirement? You have to write something on the form! We hear you! And this is where coaching really comes in handy. At Open Door we want you to get on the front foot. So in our Coaching Café this week Natalie and our Resident HR Specialist, Paula-Jones Hunt will turn their attention to the trickier conversations and how a coaching approach can work. We will also share another of Open Door’s coaching tools for performance conversations that works in these situations. Whether you are involved in developing annual performance systems, coaching managers, a manager embarking on the annual performance review season, or getting yourself ready for your own performance review, this is a webinar that we are all going to benefit from. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Asking better questions in the annual performance conversations | 19 Jun 2023 | 00:26:43 | |
This week we continue our Coaching Café series on coaching for successful performance conversations. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| What about coaching upwards? | 02 Sep 2024 | 00:31:21 | |
‘These tools are really great, but can you use the tools to coach upwards?’ It’s a question that we get asked often during our coaching programs. And it always comes with a sense of hesitation or concern. Of course, we say that you can coach upwards, downwards and sidewards, but how feasible is that? Should I coach upwards? Can I coach upwards? Do these tools work upwards? And what if you are in a hierarchical organisation? With this in mind, join us for this Coaching Café where we continue our theme of Coaching Cafes: exploring very real workplace coaching scenarios; and we focus on What about coaching upwards? Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Is now the time to ask for a pay rise? Getting what you need from performance conversations. | 13 Jun 2023 | 00:33:47 | |
For many people getting what you need out of a performance conversation can be really challenging. Especially if those conversations are linked to salary increases. And let’s face it, given the gender pay gap, the challenge is greater for women. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Setting up successful performance conversations | 06 Jun 2023 | 00:29:56 | |
The change of season from Autumn to Winter brings the cold, rain and dark nights here in the Southern parts of Australia and it’s also about this time that organisations enter the performance review season. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| 20 years in business celebrations…what does great coaching look, feel and sound like? | 16 May 2023 | 00:31:08 | |
This month we are celebrating Open Door’s 20th birthday and we want you to join us for a range of inspirational Coaching Cafes; with a few flashbacks thrown in. And one of the most inspirational and experienced people we know is our very own Brigitte Calvert, Learning and Development Manager at Open Door. For 20 years, at Open Door we’ve focussed on the vision of: creating workplaces we can all be proud of by bringing a culture of coaching to our workplace. And to achieve that vision we trained hundreds of managers and leaders to coach their people. Creating as Air Force would describe it, a ‘force-multiplier affect’ ie. coaching one person to coach many more. Brigitte has been at the centre of our training and assessments and understands at a very detailed level, what great coaching look, feels and sounds like. So join us for this Coaching Café as we interview Brigitte and unlock her insights gathered over 20 years of making a difference in coaching and training. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| 20 years in business celebrations - HR Leading the way in coaching | 09 May 2023 | 00:34:00 | |
Join Natalie as she interviews our Resident HR Specialist Paula-Jones Hunt on how HR is leading the way in coaching. Including her role in championing coaching across a range of organisations, from the highly industrial to not-for-profit and indigenous work. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Flashbacks to 2003... 20 Years in business celebrations! | 02 May 2023 | 00:35:11 | |
Back in 2003 singer Beyonce topped the Billboard charts with ‘Crazy in Love’. The number 1 song in Australia was ‘Lose Yourself’ by Eminem. And a coaching company with a big vision was founded! For 20 years, at Open Door we’ve focussed on the vision of: creating workplaces we can all be proud of by bringing a culture of coaching to our workplace. This month we are celebrating Open Door’s 20th birthday and we want you to join us for a range of inspirational Coaching Cafes; with a few flashbacks thrown in. Therefore, join Natalie and the Open Door coaches for this Coaching Café where we ‘go way back’ and reflect on some of the keys moments of Open Door’s 20 years of coaching and how our industry has changed over the last two decades (…yes, we can’t believe we are saying that!!!). Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Highlights from the ICF Global Coaching Study 2023 | 25 Apr 2023 | 00:34:35 | |
This week the ICF released theICF Global Coaching Study which researched the size and scope of the coaching profession. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Hybrid Workplaces - resist the temptation to fix the problems | 28 Mar 2023 | 00:33:26 | |
This Week on The Coaching Café: Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Hybrid Workplaces - what we need right now is better conversations | 21 Mar 2023 | 00:31:53 | |
Today on the Coaching Café: Hybrid Workplaces - What we need right now is better conversation. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| How do you remain in your career 'sweet spot' as the world of work changes and evolves? | 14 Mar 2023 | 00:29:09 | |
Join us for this Coaching Café where we welcome back a very popular guest presenter, Veronica Millen, an Open Door Alumni and author of the book ‘Career Agility’ as we answer the question, how do you remain in your career ‘sweet spot’ as the world of work changes and evolves? Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Are our leaders equipped to lead in today's environment? | 07 Mar 2023 | 00:34:31 | |
Cliff Morgan, an Open Door Alumni, and author of ‘The Coaching Leader’ suggests that: Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| When is it not the right time for coaching? | 27 Aug 2024 | 00:30:10 | |
We have covered a number of topics over the past weeks to explore real workplace coaching scenarios, including: coaching when people have too much on their plates, coaching when you know the answers and coaching ‘when it is easier to do it myself’. Throughout these conversations we have explored the role of coaching, coaching principles and ICF competencies and great coaching questions.
Following on from this, another scenario we often get asked about is: when is it not the right time for coaching? The question often comes when people who are new to coaching are thinking ‘coaching is great…but…’. The ‘but’ is questioning when is coaching most appropriate, and when should the manager be doing something else, for example telling, directing, mentoring, advising or intervening.
This tension about ‘what is my role’ and ‘what is appropriate’ is not just a simple matter of understanding the difference between coaching, directing, mentoring and other techniques. We can think about the scenarios from a number of perspectives including risk versus reward and ethics or values.
With this in mind, join us for this Coaching Café where we continue our theme of Coaching Cafes: exploring very real workplace coaching scenarios; and we focus on when is it not the right time for coaching? Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Why don't we achieve our goals? Exploring the 'R' in SMART | 28 Feb 2023 | 00:26:52 | |
To be honest I’ve not paid much attention to the ‘R‘ in SMART Goal Setting, ie. making sure that the goals are REALISTIC. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| Trends in Coaching for 2023 | 21 Feb 2023 | 00:32:33 | |
Welcome to the Coaching Café series for 2023!
Not long ago we signed off for the year, with a recap on the trends in coaching that we predicated for 2022. And now here we are, gazing into our re-usable coffee mugs and thinking about the important topics that we are likely to come across during our coaching for 2023.
The good news is that you don’t need your double shot cappuccino for inspiration - there are several trends that we are seeing in our research and through conversations with people like yourself.
Join Natalie to kick off a new and exciting year of Coaching Cafés; as we discuss the top 5 topics that we predict will be raised during coaching conversations in the workplace and also gather your insights into key trends. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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| The Year in Coaching Cafés | 06 Dec 2022 | 00:32:55 | |
The year in Coaching Cafes Back in February when we held our first Coaching Café for the year, we discussed 5 trends in coaching for 2022. Of course, we didn’t know what 2022 would bring after the two previous years. But we did know that return to the physical office, performance reviews and the ‘great resignation’ were on the cards. Add in devastating floods across many parts of the country and we’ve had a lot to contend with this year. Importantly, on the other side of the coin, we’ve had much to celebrate. At Open Door this includes the launch of What Makes a Great Coach? In our final Coaching Café of the year, join Natalie and the Open Door coaches and Alumni to explore the highlights of the Coaching Cafes for 2022. We will take a look at the top 5 trends and importantly, take a moment to reflect on the year that was and how far we’ve come. Looking for end of year gifts for the team? What Makes a Great Coach? has hit Amazon #1 Best Seller across a number of categories Australia. And what a perfect gift for your team this year! You can pick up your copy here and contact us if you want multiple copies and to access the special offers! Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the podcast please leave us a 5 star review wherever you listened to us! It helps promote the podcast to streaming services and other listeners. Watch the webinar of this episode on YouTube or read the blog by visiting our website. Want to join us live on Friday? Register Here!
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