Michael Bungay Stanier

Coaching is an essential skill for leaders. But for most busy, overworked managers, coaching employees is done badly, or not at all. They're just too busy, and it's too hard to change. But what if managers could coach their people in 10 minutes or less? 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. 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. It can also mean unlearning our ''fix it'' habits. 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 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 Question A 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. Dynamic question-and-answer sections help identify old habits and kick-start new behaviour, making sure you get the most out of all seven chapters. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work--and your workplace--from good to great.

Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

The Coaching Habit

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Coaching Habit comes an authoritative guide to getting the most out of your workforce--and it all starts with curbing your urge to dole out advice. In The Advice Trap, bestselling author, speaker, and leadership coach Michael Bungay Stanier shares his invaluable insights into developing team members' professional performance, using tips that even the busiest managers can put into play. Learn how to confront and quell the three advice monsters that lurk inside us all, and how to resist the seven temptations that can ensnare even the most well-meaning manager. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Michael shows you exactly how to ask questions that drive impact and engagement, eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive. He takes you through examples of common problem situations, and reveals how to overcome them by using his everyday coaching tips. Finally, he shows you how to attain the highest level of engagement with his "blackbelt" tools of employee interaction: transparency, lightness and deep appreciation. A companion to The Coaching Habit, The Advice Trap gives you the power to say less, ask more--and change how you lead forever.

And Other Practical Strategies to Say Less, Ask More, and Build Your Coaching Habit

How to Tame Your Advice Monster

We unlock our greatness by working on the hard things. Coaching expert and bestselling author Michael Bungay Stanier (MBS) is on a mission: to help people achieve their most ambitious, daunting, worthy projects. But how can you get across the threshold so you can make bolder, more courageous choices in other areas of your life? The secret doesn’t lie in mastering new habits and hacks; it’s about downloading a new operating system for your life. MBS shows you how to regain power and make forward progression on projects and dreams that are meaningful to you. First, figure out The Plan. Be unabashedly ambitious for yourself and the world, commit to the work of hard change, and begin your hero’s journey. Then, follow The Threshold Process. Set a worthy goal, weigh the prizes and punishments of acting (or not acting), and then take the first steps toward that goal. Instead of doubting yourself, fearing you’ll make a mistake, and feeling like you need to play “small” so you don’t disrupt the status quo, start showing up for yourself so you can show up for the world. Don’t regret a life half-lived. Stepping up and pursuing your dreams is hard ... and it’s exhilarating, and it’s important. Let MBS show you how to get clear, get confident, and start anything that matters.

A Proven Plan to Start Something That Matters

How to Begin

You work hard. You put in the hours. Yet you feel like you are constantly treading water with "Good Work" that keeps you going but never quite moves you ahead. Or worse, you are mired in "Bad Work"—endless meetings and energy-draining bureaucratic traps. Do More Great Work gets to the heart of the problem: Even the best performers are spending less than a fraction of their time doing "Great Work"—the kind of innovative work that pushes us forward, stretches our creativity, and truly satisfies us. Michael Bungay Stanier, Canadian Coach of the Year in 2006, is a business consultant who’s found a way to move us away from bad work (and even good work), and toward more time spent doing great work. When you’re up to your eyeballs answering e-mail, returning phone calls, attending meetings and scrambling to get that project done, you can turn to this inspirational, motivating, and at times playful book for invaluable guidance. In fifteen exercises, Do More Great Work shows how you can finally do more of the work that engages and challenges you, that has a real impact, that plays to your strengths—and that matters. The exercises are "maps"—brilliantly simple visual tools that help you find, start and sustain Great Work, revealing how to: Find clues to your own Great Work—they’re all around you Locate the sweet spot between what you want to do and what your organization wants you to do Generate new ideas and possibilities quickly Best manage your overwhelming workload Double the likelihood that you’ll do what you want to do All it takes is ten minutes a day, a pencil and a willingness to change. Do More Great Work will not only help you identify what the Great Work of your life is, it will tell you how to do it.

Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.

Do More Great Work

We unlock our greatness by working on the hard things.Coaching expert and bestselling author Michael Bungay Stanier (MBS) is on a mission: to help people achieve their most ambitious, daunting, worthy projects. But how can you get across the threshold so you can make bolder, more courageous choices in other areas of your life? The secret doesn't lie in mastering new habits and hacks; it's about downloading a new operating system for your life. MBS shows you how to regain power and make forward progression on projects and dreams that are meaningful to you.First, figure out The Plan. Be unabashedly ambitious for yourself and the world, commit to the work of hard change, and begin your hero's journey.Then, follow The Threshold Process. Set a worthy goal, weigh the prizes and punishments of acting (or not acting), and then take the first steps toward that goal.Instead of doubting yourself, fearing you'll make a mistake, and feeling like you need to play "small" so you don't disrupt the status quo, start showing up for yourself so you can show up for the world. Don't regret a life half-lived. Stepping up and pursuing your dreams is hard ... and it's exhilarating, and it's important. Let MBS show you how to get clear, get confident, and start anything that matters.

Start Doing Something That Matters

„Ein coach-ähnlicher Manager zu sein und gecoacht zu werden, sind Kernbestandteile unserer Kultur bei Microsoft – es ist die Art und Weise, wie talentierte Menschen gedeihen und wachsen können. Michael Bungay Stanier hat dazu beigetragen, wie wir über Coaching denken und wie es unsere Wachstumsmentalität zum Leben erwecken kann.“ Jean-Philippe Courtois, President, MICROSOFT Global Sales Wenn The Coaching Habit sagt, hier sind die sieben essenziellen Fragen, um mehr wie ein Coach zu sein, geht es in diesem Buch darum, wie Sie Ihr Verhalten tatsächlich ändern können, damit Sie noch ein bisschen länger neugierig bleiben. Es klingt, als sollte es einfach sein. Ist es aber nicht. Sie müssen Ihr Ratschlagmonster zähmen, diesen Teil von Ihnen, der sich einmischt, um Ideen, Meinungen, Vorschläge und Ratschläge anzubieten. Wie Sie das tun, erfahren Sie in The Advice Trap. Darüber hinaus werden einige spezifische Coaching-Strategien angeboten, beispielsweise wie Sie sich auf das Wesentliche konzentrieren können. Und es werden Werkzeuge vorgestellt, die helfen, Ihre Gespräche unwiderstehlich zu machen. „Prägnant, kraftvoll und wahr. Wieder einmal liefert Michael Bungay Stanier einen Weckruf mit echtem Wert.“ Seth Godin, Autor von DAS IST MARKETING

Bleiben Sie demütig, neugierig - und ändern Sie für immer die Art, wie Sie führen

The Advice Trap

The secret to work relationships that sing from a top thought-leader in coaching Have you ever had the experience of working with someone and they just didn't “get” you? They do all the things that wind you up, put you off and drive you nuts. And have you ever worked with someone and you just didn't “get” them? You couldn't figure out what made them tick, and you know you were underwhelming as a manager and leader for them. Of course, you have. We all have. Why do those experiences keep happening? Particularly when we’ve also experienced the opposite: great working relationships that soar. In How To Work with (Almost) Anyone, internationally bestselling author Michael Bungay Stanier (MBS) shares a tested process that sets up working relationships for the best possible success. It shows you how to communicate about who you are and what brings out the best and the worst in you. It gives you the tools to talk with your colleagues about how you operate, and to set a social contract for how you’ll work together (not just what you’ll be working on). It teaches you how to keep relationships strong and healthy, clear and clean. Not every relationship can be rainbows and unicorns and free-flowing ginger beer. But everyone who relates can do a better job at amplifying the best of each other, navigating the dark spots, and staying generous. With How To Work with (Almost) Anyone, MBS reveals the secret to better, more successful relationships.

Five Questions for Building the Best Possible Relationships

How to Work with (Almost) Anyone

How to Work with (almost) Anyone

Hi there, it's Michael, the author. You might know my previous book, The Coaching Habit. It was an unexpected bestseller: more than 700,000 copies sold so far, 1,000+ 5-star reviews on Amazon (my favourite: "I have plodded through many books that wish they could be this book"), a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and used by people and organizations around the world.So I've been sweating on the follow-up. The pressure! The anticipation! But here it is, and I think you're going to like it. If The Coaching Habit says, "here are the seven essential questions to be more coach-like," The Advice Trap is about getting to grips with how to actually change your behaviour so you stay curious a little bit longer.It sounds like it should be easy, but it's not. You have to tame your Advice Monster, that part of you that jumps in to offer up ideas, opinions, suggestions and advice. And it's taming your Advice Monster that's at the heart of this book. But there are also some specific coaching strategies, particularly on how to focus on what matters most. There are tools to make your conversations, coaching and otherwise, irresistible. There are even resources beyond the book itself, including a one-year, free leadership program from a 52-person faculty of cool, diverse, and provocative thinkers.In 2019, I was named the #1 Thought Leader in Coaching, and was short-listed for the coaching award by Thinkers50, the "Oscars of Management." My work's been featured in journals such as HBR, Fast Company, Forbes, and Inc., and my company, Box of Crayons, has trained more than 100,000 people just like you in the tools and mindset required for this essential leadership behaviour: being more coach-like. You'll get all of that wisdom and experience when you read The Advice Trap. I'm pretty sure you'll find it a great investment of your money and time. (And, by the way, thank you in advance for buying it. I'm thrilled to know the book is going out into the world.)

Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever

A collection of essays about what success in business means, contributed by more than 60 business leaders and authors. A percentage from the sale of the book goes to Malaria No More to support efforts for the eradication of malaria in Africa.

Bold Innovation, Limitless Generosity, and the Opportunity to Save a Life

End Malaria

Vous croyez aux bienfaits du coaching mais vous manquez de temps ? Cet ouvrage est fait pour vous ! Michael Bungay Stanier, coach renommé, a mis en place une méthode simple et rapide dont l'efficacité a fait ses preuves. Cette technique, qui repose sur 7 questions essentielles, vous accompagnera tout au long de votre processus de coaching. Coacher vos collaborateurs ne vous prendra désormais pas plus de 10 minutes ! En suivant cette méthode pas à pas, vous saurez enfin quelle question poser, à quel moment, et dans quelle situation. Vous serez ainsi plus à l'écoute des autres et pourrez résoudre très facilement les problèmes que vous rencontrez. Avec ce livre pratique, coacher vos collaborateurs, vos proches, ou même vous-même, n'aura jamais été aussi facile !

L'art de poser les bonnes questions pour être réellement efficace

10 minutes pour coacher ses collaborateurs

Karen Wright

Being a leader requires much more than just understanding how to run a business. Today's executive is under a unique set of demands, coming from multiple stakeholders. In The Complete Executive, long-time executive coach Karen Wright introduces a unique 10-step system that takes all of these aspects of leadership development into account. Leaders not only need incredible physical energy and stamina, they need a support system, philosophy, plan, business acumen, a social network, and a brand and reputation that will ensure they achieve their vision. Backed by an assessment tool, giving each leader a personal "report card," this book provides aspiring leaders with a framework to address all aspects of leadership that translates to peak performance. Wright knows from experience that even when everything is going well for leaders, high achievers don't stop there, which is why The Complete Executive is designed as a resource to return to again and again for continuous improvement.

The 10-Step System to Powering Up Peak Performance

Complete Executive

getAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes. Despite executive coaching's high profile, few managers coach well or even at all. Many equate coaching with giving advice and little else. Coaching involves much more than just talking to people; it requires posing intelligent questions that inspire your employees to talk about their thoughts, their work and their concerns. Managers can use a proactive questioning process to learn what's going on with their employees (or family members, for that matter) and help them upgrade their skills, reach their own solutions and understand their own actions. Michael Bungay Stanier, the first person honored as Coach of the Year in Canada, uses the construct of seven essential coaching questions to teach managers how to coach effectively. getAbstract recommends his manual to all managers, aspiring business coaches and any practitioners who might welcome a refresher. Book Publisher: Box of Crayons Press

The Coaching Habit (summary)

Miért kell vezetőként rászoknunk a coacholásra? Hogyan kerülhetjük el a mikromenedzselés csapdáját? Miként lehetnek valóban építők a coachingbeszélgetések? Vezetőként sokszor egyszerűbbnek tűnik, hogy megmondjuk másoknak, szerintünk mit kell tenniük, vagy hogy megoldjunk helyettük egy-egy problémát. Pedig ez hosszú távon nem célravezető, mivel túlterheljük magunkat. A coacholás lényege, hogy egyszerű, jól megfogalmazott kérdésekkel támogassuk és fejlesszük csapatunk tagjait. A téma elismert szakértője, Michael Bungay Stanier könyvében a legfrissebb idegtudományi és pszichológiai kutatásokra támaszkodva bemutatja a hét legfontosabb kérdést és használatukat. Ha a kérdezést mindennapos rutinná tesszük, akkor mindössze tízperces, jól strukturált coachingbeszélgetésekkel nemcsak fókuszáltabbak és rugalmasabbak leszünk, de jelentősen növelhetjük munkatársaink önállóságát és teljesítményét.

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Szokj rá a coacholásra!

Ana Garza-Robillard

Want more from your work? Great Work Provocations provides you with a year's worth of provocations to make you smile, to make you think and to make you act. Questions, metaphor and flat-out challenges are all deployed to make sure that every day is a new day for you when it comes to do more of the stuff that matters ... and less of the other stuff. Great Work Provocations is designed as a daily, less-than-30-seconds-to-read-message to help give your mornings a twist. Start on January 1 or any day of the year and make this perpetual calendar a daily way to provoke you to do more Great Work.

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