The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
by Michael Bungay Stanier
View on GoodreadsA compact playbook arguing that managers default to advice-giving when they should be asking, organized around seven specific questions that produce better conversations than expert input does.
Core ideas
- Seven core questions structure the book, anchored by the Kickstart ("What's on your mind?"), the AWE question ("And what else?"), and a focus question that pushes past the first-stated problem to the real one.
- "Tame the advice monster" — managers' instinct to fix the visible problem prevents the surfacing of the actual one.
- Habit-design framing: pair the questions with specific cues so they become reflexive, not effortful.
Published2016
Pages117
ISBN9780978440749
ReadMay 2021
