Community Conversations: Coaching the Coach: Helping leaders coach their own teams (11/04/2026)

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Coaching the Coach: Helping leaders coach their own teams

Many leaders want to coach their people but aren’t sure how to start, or they fall back on giving answers because it feels faster. In this Community Conversation, we’ll explore what it takes to help leaders shift from directing to coaching: asking better questions, offering feedback that lands, and building the confidence to have developmental conversations with their own teams.

Bring a real leadership or coaching situation you’re wrestling with or a fun story of a similar nature. You don’t need coaching credentials, just curiosity, a willingness to share, and a desire to find a like-minded community.

Discussion Facilitator

Cherisa Zafft is the founder of CoreShift Development and a Learning Coach at InStride. With 25+ years of experience in leadership and organizational development, she designs and facilitates programs that strengthen how leaders communicate, build trust, and navigate change. She is also the 2026 President of TODN.

Cherisa especially enjoys working with leaders who are learning to coach, and she believes good coaching is learned through practice, not theory alone. Her approach leads with clear, direct feedback, then concrete models, then reflective questions. Expect a little humor, practical tools, and room to experiment.

Why Join the Conversation

Conversation, not presentations. These sessions are centered on dialogue and shared inquiry rather than slides, panels, or prepared talks
Inclusive and accessible. Open to members and nonmembers alike; no specific role, title, or OD background required.
Curiosity over certainty. Participants are encouraged to ask thoughtful questions, explore multiple perspectives, and sit with complexity.
Lived experience welcomed. Insights come from the room—your stories, reflections, and real-world practice are the curriculum.
A non-promotional space. We prioritize inquiry and shared sense-making over agenda-driven promotion.

About Community Conversations

Community Conversations are free, open gatherings focused on inquiry, dialogue, and shared learning around organizational development. Open to members and nonmembers alike, we prioritize inquiry and shared sense-making over agenda-driven promotion.

For questions about this event, please reach out to Cherisa Zafft at cherisa@coreshiftdevelopment.com

OODN Partnership Series: Improv Mindset Craft Your 3-Sentence Strategy for Better Opportunities, Referrals & Relationships (11/12/2026)

Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Improv Mindset

Craft Your 3-Sentence Strategy for Better Opportunities, Referrals & Relationships

Improvisers create without the benefit of a script or plan. The ways they do this can be used offstage. In fact, when you act like an improviser, work gets better. Adding more improv skills helps you create, communicate, and collaborate at a higher level.

In this highly experiential (and joyful) Masterclass, you will learn the “advanced basics” of improvisation, ideas that can be applied immediately to your life and work.

It helps you:

Respond constructively to whatever happens.
Turn the unexpected into something you use, not something that stresses you out.
Generate new ideas with ease and learn to build on the ideas of others.
Enjoy the creative process even more.

About On Your Feet:

For 25 years, On Your Feet has been creating content for some of the world’s best brands. Our clients include firms like Disney, Nike, Google, Uber, and many others.

These are interactive workshop experiences to teach and apply some universally helpful tools, like listening, providing clear feedback, dealing with uncertainty, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.

These concepts can be tailored to specific organizations and applied in ways that give leaders tools that they can begin using immediately.

Questions? Contact Feargal Moorhead, feargal.moorhead@buckleymoorhead.com

Triangle Organization Development Network upcoming events

Community Conversations: Coaching the Coach: Helping leaders coach their own teams (11/04/2026)

Why Join the Conversation

OODN Partnership Series: Improv Mindset Craft Your 3-Sentence Strategy for Better Opportunities, Referrals & Relationships (11/12/2026)

Improv Mindset

Craft Your 3-Sentence Strategy for Better Opportunities, Referrals & Relationships