The Coaching Habit is a book by Michael Bungay Stanier (aka MBS). In telling you about the book, I feel I am giving away many of my secrets. But, yeap, they are not mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The subtitle is: “Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever.” It is just perfectly telling everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book is for leaders. Leaders who are in a manager or an individual contributor role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In seven questions, the author can cover everything that matters. Here they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1- The Kickstart Question: What’s on your mind?
2- The AWE Question: And what else?
3- The Focus Question: What’s the real challenge here for you?
4- The Foundation Question: What do you want?
5- The Lazy Question: How can I help?
6- The Strategic Question: If you are saying yes to this, what are you saying no to?
7- The Learning Question: What was most useful for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that’s all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, that is not really all. It is just a summary, valuable only because I read the book and experimented with the power of the questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the book, you will learn the rationale behind using the questions and develop your ability to be curious, which is the real secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Curiosity is everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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