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The Coaching Habit
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Learn the key ideas of the book by Michael Bungay Stanier

The Coaching Habit

Learn the importance and true meaning of coaching

Globally recognised coach, founder of the company Box of Crayons, and best-selling author, Michael Bungay Stanier, believes that a good coaching session can last as little as 10 minutes. But he goes even further than that: every conversation between a manager and their staff can be classified as a coaching session - but only if the right questions are asked. In The Coaching Habit, he lays out seven questions that he considers to be fundamental when it comes to inspiring the people he works with, without undermining their autonomy and all the while encouraging them to step into the role of a leader. With these seven magic questions, leaders can be transformed from an instructor that issues solutions into someone that inspires their staff to think deeply for themselves, opening up their minds in such a way so as to spur them to approach the problem from multiple angles.

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The Coaching Habit
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Coaching is the art of internal dialogue, of dialogue between yourself and another person, and between yourself and the world around you

Coaching is a word that encompasses infinite nuances, activities, and disciplines that revolve around work relationships and beyond. For a manager, it is a matter of making their team more autonomous, inviting them to think outside the box, thus increasing a company’s abilities and efficiency. 

More generally, improving one's leadership is also useful outside the workplace. A leader is someone who leads a group of people, not someone who gives them solutions and orders, but rather pushes each person to find their own place within the team. This is true in family situations, in a group of friends, and within a company. 

Coaching involves continuously training your conversation skills, not so as to reach a solution but instead to find new points of view from which to observe the problem. Although this discipline has become essential in modern-day companies, not everyone has understood its true potential yet.

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The key ideas of "The Coaching Habit"

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Coaching is the art of internal dialogue, of dialogue between yourself and another person, and between yourself and the world around you
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All managers need to coach their teams, but not all are capable of doing so
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Changing habits requires dedicated daily practice
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The seven fundamental questions to change your way of coaching
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Drop the pleasantries and discover the power of the Kickstart Question
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Unleash authentic reflection with The Best Coaching Question in the World
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Learn to focus on the real problem, not the first problem
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Learning to talk as adults means knowing how to ask, “What do you want?”
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Resist the temptation to help: how Lazy Questioning can save you in complex situations
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Learn to understand what you are saying no to when you say yes to something else
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Coach more effectively by harnessing insights from neuroscience on learning
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The seven questions can be used all together and in all environments
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Quotes
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Take-home message
 
 
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