The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Written by Michael Bungay Stanier

Narrated by Daniel Maté

The phenomenal bestseller with almost 1 million copies sold!

"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.” —Dr. Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly 

With a new introduction by Christopher Yates, Chief Talent Officer at Ford Motor Company

Now a modern-day classic, this game-changing guide from the #1 Thought Leader in Coaching (2019) Michael Bungay Stanier has helped revolutionize modern-day leadership. In this updated edition, you’ll find essential tools and insights for adopting a coaching mindset to guide your team to greatness. 

Discover the Seven Essential Questions to unlock your peoples' potential, in any conversation:

• Get straight to the point with The Kickstart Question
• Stay on track with The Awe Question
• Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question
• Save hours of time for others with The Strategic Question
• Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question
• Drill down further with The Foundation Question
• Wrap it up with The Learning Question

The Coaching Habit is the distillation of Bungay Stanier’s work training more than 100,000 people, people, regular managers, leaders, and individual contributors through his company Box of Crayons. Whether on its own, or as an accompaniment to your print copy, this audiobook is an indispensable guide to turning your next conversation into a transformational experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Two Books
• Release date: Jun 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781774582077

Michael Bungay Stanier

George Orwell said, “An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.” In that vein, Michael was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident”, was sued by one of his Law School lecturers for defamation, and managed to give himself a concussion while digging a hole as a labourer...Luckily, there’s also been some upside. He is the author of a number of books, and the one he is best known for with 90,000 copies sold is Do More Great Work. However, the one he’s proudest of is End Malaria, a collection of articles about Great Work from thought leaders that’s raised about $400,000 for Malaria No More and reached #2 on Amazon.com.Michael also organized the Great Work MBA, a virtual conference featuring 30 world class speakers and which had more than 10,000 registered participants.All of this is done as founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work. Their focus is on helping time-crunched managers coach in 10 minutes or less, and their Fortune 500 clients include TD Bank, Kraft, Gartner and VMWare.Michael is a well-regarded speaker, and as well as speaking to organizations he regularly keynotes at conferences such as HRPA, SHRM, CSTD, the Evanta HR Leadership series and The Conference Board of Canada. He’s known for sessions that are highly engaging, interactive and entertaining. And for his colourful Box of Crayons socks.Before Box of Crayons, Michael spent time inventing products and services as part of an innovation agency, and working as a management consultant on large scale change, where amongst other things he wrote the global vision for GlaxoSmithKline.Michael was a Rhodes Scholar and the first Canadian Coach of the Year.

Reviews for The Coaching Habit

[Shawntae Willis · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It was good. I liked how he gave us books to read at the end.

[Staszek · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Really great book about making questions, so far the best I read in this area and I tried with many!

[Jennifer Brookes · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book, very practical and informative without it being boring. Great work!

[Kate Russell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

As someone who tends to jump in with advice whether to students or my own feisty children, who can also hop quite well, this is a brilliant book for those who need to learn to say less in order to listen and learn more. Hang on until almost the end when he gives a great list of recommendations of other books to read for other goals.

Well done Michael. Thank you.

[Cynthia C Chirwa · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I just loved the ease of this book, great analogies and nuggets!

[JosephSesay · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Simple to read and useful content I love the way the write brought the story out

[Smriti Sant · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Simple, easy to follow and usable. Very informative & practical for all practicing Coaches.

[rickyrricon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts through this book!!

[Geralyn · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Just finished ’listening’ To this books and what made this book great was the thoroughness. Examples Crayon Lab items, positive and the negative perspective of items. Now I’m off to view and read!! Thank you!!

[Andy Jimenez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Practical information i can use right away in my coaching business.