The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever
Written by Michael Bungay Stanier
Narrated by Daniel Mate
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In The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier shows you how coaching can become a regular, informal part of your day, so you and your team can work more efficiently and have more impact.
Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples’ potential, skills he has taught to over 10,000 busy managers from all over the globe. He’ll show you how his seven essential coaching questions allow you–by saying less and asking more–to develop coaching methods that produce great results.
The Kickstart Question gets straight to the point in any conversation
The Awe Question keeps you on track during any interaction
The Lazy Question saves hours of time for yourself, and The Strategic Question saves hours of time for others
The Focus Question and The Foundation Question get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge
The Learning Question ensures others find your coaching as beneficial as you do
Offering a fresh take on the how-to manual
The Coaching Habit combines business savvy with research in neuroscience and behavioural economics, as well as interactive training tools that turn practical advice into practiced habits. Witty and conversational, this audiobook takes your work–and workplace–from good to great.
Michael Bungay Stanier, is the founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons. Founded in 2002 in Toronto, Canada, Box of Crayons teaches organizations to do less Good Work and to do more Great Work. Focused on helping busy managers coach in 10 minutes or less, their Fortune 500 clients include Kraft, Gartner, TD Bank, and VMWare. Purchase the print or ebook editions here: www.boxofcrayons.biz
Michael Bungay Stanier distills the essentials of coaching to seven core questions. And if you master his simple yet profound technique, you’ll get a two-fer. You’ll provide more effective support to your employees and co-workers. And you may find that you become the ultimate coach for yourself. Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive
Coaching is an art
and it’s far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide an answer, or unleash a solution. Giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And he guides us through the tricky part – how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice. Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly.
Michael Bungay Stanier
George Orwell said, “An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.” In that vein, Michael was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident”, was sued by one of his Law School lecturers for defamation, and managed to give himself a concussion while digging a hole as a labourer...Luckily, there’s also been some upside. He is the author of a number of books, and the one he is best known for with 90,000 copies sold is Do More Great Work. However, the one he’s proudest of is End Malaria, a collection of articles about Great Work from thought leaders that’s raised about $400,000 for Malaria No More and reached #2 on Amazon.com.Michael also organized the Great Work MBA, a virtual conference featuring 30 world class speakers and which had more than 10,000 registered participants.All of this is done as founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work. Their focus is on helping time-crunched managers coach in 10 minutes or less, and their Fortune 500 clients include TD Bank, Kraft, Gartner and VMWare.Michael is a well-regarded speaker, and as well as speaking to organizations he regularly keynotes at conferences such as HRPA, SHRM, CSTD, the Evanta HR Leadership series and The Conference Board of Canada. He’s known for sessions that are highly engaging, interactive and entertaining. And for his colourful Box of Crayons socks.Before Box of Crayons, Michael spent time inventing products and services as part of an innovation agency, and working as a management consultant on large scale change, where amongst other things he wrote the global vision for GlaxoSmithKline.Michael was a Rhodes Scholar and the first Canadian Coach of the Year.
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Reviews for The Coaching Habit
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good tips and information that I can use. The book could have been shorter, lots of rambling to make a point.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great material.. requires a re read to absorb tge nuggets
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As a coach, it’s always most useful to understand the principles and methods as put to practice. Done well in the book!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book should be called “the power of questions and how you can get better at asking them.” I was surprised at how good it is. This has now become a must read recommendation for me.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was spot on!!! Everything I needed was in this book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coaching and Helping people in organizations in a great approach. You can have more impact by teaching people how to help themselves instead of the doing the job yourself
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5what made this book so great is exactly what a prior reviewer didn't like:
"name and book title dropping" allowed me to get the best points of great books, quickly, and without having to organize them into coherent and useful format.
KUDOs! - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Stanier says he took four years to write four versions of this. I'm virtually scratching my head at that...it's a trifold tract blown up with repetitious cliches, buzzwords, self-help stuff, and a lot of name- and book title-dropping. Stanier aggregates other people's works (he even cites the serial offender aggregator Daniel Goleman) into a whizzbang ask seven questions and you know everything about coaching leadership flipchart. I think he misses his target by a wide margin. Note: I do agree that asking questions is important. But asking questions is only the start of coaching leadership.
Maybe *I* missed his point. Perhaps he was trying to show someone how to coach others in leadership.
If you've never known a single thing about coaching leadership, I expect this will be a good start. If you know anything...pass on this.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In my opinion, it is an Excellent book , that can change the way you interact with people.
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