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October 3, 2024 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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September and October Featured Book: The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao.

The IOC Invites you to join our Book Club, which will meet once a month on the first Thursday of every month. We will spend two meetings per book, one for a review of the major themes and the other for specialized topic dives related to your coaching practice.

For the month of September and October, the 2024 IOC Book Club series will be reading The Friction Project, a valuable guide for leaders looking to transform effective workplace dynamics.

The Friction Project provides practical solutions addressing organizational friction. Not all friction is necessarily bad, but we are talking about the destructive kind that makes it harder, more complicated and impossible to get things done in organizations. When left unchecked, the inefficient processes, power struggles, communication barriers and office politics can lead to low morale, productivity and retention.

Join us to understand organizational friction, discover practical solutions to transform workplace dynamics, address destructive organizational friction (which hinders productivity and morale), learn strategies to reduce inefficiencies, power struggles, and communication barriers for a more effective workplace. We will differentiate good from the bad friction and provide strategies to identify and reduce the destructive forces for a more efficient, engaging and effective workplace.

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Emily Terrani, the Sponsor & Fellow Outreach Manager for the Institute of Coaching, is a graduate of Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and minor in Health Policy Analysis Management. Her greatest passion is to help empower others to improve their mental, emotional, social, physical and professional well-being. This passion, along with Emily’s ability to empathize with others, appreciate different perspectives, and understand situations holistically, has driven her to dedicate her academic and professional endeavors towards supporting others

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Austin Matzelle, the Program Manager at the Institute of Coaching is a graduate from Seattle Pacific University with a Bachelor’s in Psychology. His interest in psychology mainly lies in identity development, emotion regulation, and baseline happiness theory. This psychological background, along with professional experience in user experience helps Austin in external research for the Institute of Coaching along with internal research to enhance the experience individuals have when interacting with the IOC’s content.