Leadership Development Articles with a Coaching Mindset
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Dr. Bethany Peters, Ph.D., PCC
With over 20 years of experience in leadership development and a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, I take a coach approach to help leaders and teams thrive. As an expert thought partner, I facilitate clarity, inspire creative thinking, and help growth-minded professionals overcome barriers to make meaningful progress. Meet Bethany.
How to Start a Mastermind Group: A Practical Guide for Leaders
Are you feeling stuck or not making the progress you want in your personal or professional life? Are you looking for a supportive community of like-minded individuals who can help you achieve your goals? Consider joining or starting your own mastermind group.
The Coaching Design Co.Practical tools to put the ideas to work
Guides, journals, and coaching question sets that turn what you read here into what you do next.
This mastermind toolkit shows you how to start your own mastermind group and keep it running well. It covers every stage, from checking your readiness to facilitate and designing the group to running strong spotlights, holding members accountable, and checking in on how the group is working.
Templates and scripts are ready to use, including six editable Google Docs templates you can copy and share with members, so you can spend your energy on the people in the room.
What's inside
What a mastermind is, why it works, and why groups form, with examples across industries and roles
A facilitator readiness self-check, design canvas, screening questions, orientation checklist, and ground rules
15- and 20-minute spotlight formats, plus how to facilitate a spotlight well
Community-building activities, ways to celebrate wins, and options for closing a session
Accountability tips, common challenges, SMART goals, and a progress tracker
Coaching tips, questions to get unstuck, and the GROW model
Evaluation forms, a digital platform guide, and six editable Google Docs templates
Who it's for: leaders, coaches, consultants, and professionals who want to start a peer mastermind group, whether in person or online.
Format: 54-page fillable PDF, plus links to six editable Google Docs templates, 8.5 x 11 in. Type directly into the file or print it. Created by Dr. Bethany Peters, Ph.D., PCC.
This guide gives you 100 coaching questions for leaders, sorted by the conversations you have most often. Each set comes with a note on when to use it, so you can find the right question quickly in a one-on-one, a team meeting, or a coaching session.
Before the questions, a short guide to workplace coaching helps you ask well: what the leader-as-coach role looks like, how to tell when coaching is the right fit, and how to listen and ask in ways that help people think.
What's inside
100 coaching questions in ten topics: Self-Awareness, Vision & Strategy, Communication & Influence, Team Building, Managing Stress, Managing Performance, Decision-Making, Growth & Development, Productivity, and Change Management
An introduction to workplace coaching and a diagnostic for when to coach, teach, or direct
Listening and asking-questions self-checks with practical tips
Research on coachable moments and coachability, with two readiness assessments
A coaching mindset prep sheet, the GROW model, a conversation planner, and a conversation log
A page to save your own go-to questions
Who it's for: managers, leaders, and coaches who want better one-on-ones and more useful development conversations.
Format: 50-page fillable PDF, 8.5 x 11 in. Type directly into the file or print it. Self-assessment totals calculate in Adobe Acrobat Reader and most PDF apps. Created by Dr. Bethany Peters, Ph.D., PCC.
There's a particular kind of fatigue that comes from leading without a pause.
Your patterns harden. Your boundaries blur. Habits that once served you start running you. The pace continues, but somewhere along the way, your alignment slips.
The Mindset Reset Journal is a 30-day reflection practice designed for when your leadership needs a reset
When you feel like you are stuck, fatigued, or living out of alignment with what matters most, this journal offers you a structured developmental arc, built around the Reset Rhythm™ — a four-week sequence that walks you through Sync, Stop, Start, and Sustain.
Each week opens with a guided introduction that names what you're practicing and why and each day offers a focused prompt that moves the work forward.
The Reset Rhythm™:
Week 1 — Sync. Slow your pace and tune in to what's actually present. Practice listening to your thoughts, body, and energy without rushing to fix anything.
Week 2 — Stop. Interrupt the routines, habits, and assumptions that no longer serve you. Practice creating space for intentional choice instead of defaulting to autopilot.
Week 3 — Start. Build new rhythms, boundaries, and habits aligned with your values. Practice designing your daily life from the inside out.
Week 4 — Sustain. Anchor your insights so the shifts last. Practice grounding new patterns into your real, demanding life.
This journal is for you if:
You're leading well but feeling stretched thin across the board
You can name what's draining you, but the patterns keep showing up anyway
You're out of sync with your values and ready to recalibrate
You're running on autopilot and want to recenter how you're showing up
You want a structured reflection practice grounded in real coaching pedagogy
What's inside:
A 30-day guided journaling practice
Four weekly introductions framing the Reset Rhythm™
Daily prompts designed for focused 10-15 minute reflections
Beautifully designed pages with space to write, breathe, and return to
Digital download — print at home or use on your tablet
Please note: This is a digital product. No physical product will be shipped to you.
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