The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
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Publisher Description
In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact.Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how—by saying less and asking more—you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.· Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question· Stay on track during any interaction with The Awe Question· Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question, and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question· Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question and The Foundation Question· Finally ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning QuestionA fresh innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work—and your workplace—from good to great."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 and 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Coaching is an essential leadership skill in business and learning how to do it well is a matter of habit, says Do More Great Work author Bungay Stanier in this slim guide. This pocket-size book, full of eye-catching graphics and pithy phrases in large text, guides readers through seven questions that Bungay Stanier asserts will lead them to great coaching. His suggestions for would-be coaches are focused on helping them understand the needs of the coachee and addressing these needs clearly and directly. Since many or most leaders have tried to coach and failed, according to a study Bungay Stanier cites, these questions are aimed at making coaching simpler and more effective, and building it into a habit. The advice is backed up with references to other studies and includes worksheets. The book is intended to be customized for branded corporate use; it's hard to imagine who the trade audience would be for the generic advice provided, unless it's amended with organization-specific information. (BookLife)This review has been corrected; a previous versions incorrectly stated the author's last name.
Customer Reviews
Coaching as a habit
Cogent, compelling, and useful approach to asking questions to deliver really impactful results. My workshops have improved significantly since including Michael's questions. It's an easy read too.
Should have been just a HBR article , not a book
the author lay out this few simple lines of question to “coach” your colleague:
"what is on your mind"
"and what else"
"what is the challenge here for you?"
"what do you want"
"what was the most useful for you"
and using a lot unnecessary and irrelevant and half-insightful research to provide support for the claim (they are all useful knowledge bite, but it is so shatter it doesn’t amount to a good understanding towards one single concept). with a hint (perhaps too much) of humour to make it fun to read (but frustrated with the lack of actual substance)
the book address the scenario when the request is coming from the other parties, and how to deal with it, but it doesn’t address when the manager need to induce a new initiative to other parties.
all in all, the goal of the book is to teach us how to not giving direct answer and help the coachee to find it (which is the main concept of coaching), the goal is reached but it should have been delivered in a HBR article with 5min read is equally sufficient
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