Coaching vs. Managing: The Key to Empowering Your Team

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Speaker : ALYSSA POGGIOLI
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When : Friday, August 08, 2025
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Time : 11 : 00 AM EST
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Alyssa Poggioli is a Leadership Development and
Executive Performance Coach with over a decade of experience empowering
leaders to unlock their full potential.
With a
background spanning corporate fitness management, coaching
certification education, and executive leadership consulting, Alyssa
specializes in helping professionals elevate their emotional
intelligence, communication mastery, and executive presence.
She
combines evidence-based techniques with a results-driven coaching style
that is both direct and inspiring. Alyssa holds multiple certifications
in leadership coaching and wellness, and partners with companies across
industries to foster the next generation of high-impact leaders.
In today’s rapidly changing workplace, the way we lead others is evolving. Traditional management — focused on control, oversight, and direction — is no longer enough to inspire high performance, loyalty, and growth. The most effective leaders today aren’t just managers; they’re skilled coaches who empower individuals to think critically, stay aligned with their strengths and values, and develop into the best versions of themselves.
This webinar, Coaching vs. Managing: The Key to Empowering Your Team, will help you understand the fundamental differences between managing tasks and coaching people, and why mastering this distinction is crucial for team success. You’ll learn how a coaching approach creates psychological safety, encourages ownership, and unlocks individual potential, while traditional management often leads to compliance, burnout, and disengagement.
You’ll discover why the best leaders aren't the ones with all the answers, but the ones who know how to ask the right questions. Coaching leadership isn't about micromanaging — it’s about creating an environment where employees feel seen, heard, and empowered to take action that aligns with both personal values and organizational goals.
When leaders shift from managing to coaching, they foster cultures of innovation, resilience, and commitment. Instead of telling people what to do, coaching-oriented leaders guide their teams to think more deeply, take greater initiative, and feel more connected to their work.
If you want to retain your best talent, enhance team collaboration, and develop high performers who lead themselves, it’s time to refine your leadership style. Join us to learn actionable strategies that will help you coach, not just manage, and transform the way your team shows up, solves problems, and thrives.
Areas Covered
- Understand the critical differences between coaching and managing, and why it matters for team empowerment and performance.
- Learn how to ask powerful, strategic questions that foster ownership, innovation, and psychological safety.
- Discover how to align team members’ strengths and values with organizational goals through a coaching approach.
- Identify common management pitfalls that unintentionally cause disengagement and burnout — and how to avoid them.
- Walk away with actionable strategies to immediately begin shifting from a task-focused manager to a people-focused leader.
Who Should Attend
- Mid-level managers
- Senior leaders and executives
- Team leads and project managers
- Talent development and HR professionals
- Anyone responsible for managing or developing people
Why Should You Attend
In today’s workforce, employees expect more than direction — they expect growth, trust, and meaningful engagement. Yet many leaders still rely on outdated management techniques that unintentionally stifle creativity, lower morale, and fuel disengagement.
If you’re still leading by telling instead of coaching, you could be unintentionally driving your best talent out the door.
Micromanagement, rigid control, and task-based oversight may deliver short-term results, but they destroy long-term loyalty, innovation, and initiative. When employees don’t feel trusted to think for themselves or contribute meaningfully, their motivation fades, burnout rises, and turnover becomes inevitable.
Organizations that fail to cultivate coaching leadership styles risk falling behind, struggling with high attrition rates, poor team dynamics, and missed opportunities for growth.
The truth is: without coaching skills, leaders limit not only their team's potential, but their own career trajectory. Companies today are seeking leaders who can foster psychological safety, navigate complexity with empathy, and empower individuals to make aligned, values-driven decisions. Coaching isn't just a "nice to have" anymore — it’s a leadership must-have.
This webinar will equip you with the mindset and techniques you need to stop managing tasks and start developing people. You’ll learn how to shift your daily interactions to spark engagement, build trust, and unlock your team's full potential.
Don't let old habits hold you — or your team — back.
Join us and discover how evolving from manager to coach can be the game-changing leadership move your organization (and your career) needs right now.
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$160.00
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