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  • Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
  • Written by: Michael Bungay Stanier
  • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
  • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (340 ratings)

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The Coaching Habit

Written by: Michael Bungay Stanier
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
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Publisher's Summary

2016 Voice Arts Award Finalist

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.

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

©2016 Box of Crayons (P)2016 Post Hypnotic Press Inc.

What the critics say

"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)
"Daniel Maté sounds like an enthusiastic teacher as he narrates this upbeat lesson.... His entertaining phrasing and authentic presence give the author's ideas extra power." ( AudioFile)

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Short and sweet, with actionable ideas and tips

Great ideas and tips that you can start using right away on coaching others. Also, Daniel Maté does a wonderful job narrating this. Kudos to both! #Audible1

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Wow !!! What a ride !

Loved it ! Every part of it. Brilliantly written. I leave with a lot of great questions to ask but more importantly, with a different conscious about how things can be done… even (especially) in the corporate world !

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Note

Not the best book to listen to while driving. It calls for downloads from a website for supplementary material.

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Meh

The book was helpful to a certain point only. This book seems to touch the tip of icerberg 'purposely' in order to advertise the author's company. This was a big throw-off throughout the entire audiobook, constantly being told to go to his website for 'more'. Videos on the website explain more but eventually once again tries to gain clients. 7 questions the author goes over are quite generalized and can't be applied well in many work environments. This book had a chance to be actully genuinely helpful if more depth or detailed examples would've been provided, and stopped advertising the author's company so much.

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I liked it

The Coaching Habit is a book that more leaders should check out - these days, it seems people are in such a rush to get things done, they don't stop to ask the right questions to truly understand what is being expressed. This book will give a great deal of food for thought if you are one of those people (unintentionally) and don't often think about the value of conversations, or how you can add the value by just asking the questions. Wish I had this book many years back in my first coaching role.

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Not bad but a bit dated

The core content is great. The examples could use an update to more modern working conditions. The narrirator made the book more engaging. The author could be a bit more humble.

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Definitely deserves a relisten

Very useful advice in this book. chapters are laid out to skip around if needed. thank you for this book

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Great listen

Might buy the hard copy to put notes in. You can’t appreciate the references to other works while driving.

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it was ok

Perhaps this is a book that is better read then to listen? some parts felt like just words being read out loud with no structure. the narrator did a great job however, he definitely made me want to keep listening. The content could be summarized to a one pager, and lots of plugs to their website to watch videos. This felt more like a very long HBR article than a book.

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Accurate, but obvious

I feel like I learned more about the topic by googling "The Coaching habit summary pdf" than by listening.

It's interesting, it's mild and light, but not full of wow moments.

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