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The Coaching Habit

Provides a small set of coaching questions to make managers less advice-driven and more effective.

Key takeaways

  1. Questions reveal the real challenge
  2. Advice-giving can reduce ownership
  3. Coaching works through frequent small habits

How to apply it in your business

  1. Start one-on-ones with a discovery question
  2. Ask 'What else?' before proposing fixes
  3. Close with a specific commitment

About the author

Michael Bungay Stanier is a coaching and leadership author focused on practical managerial conversations.

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