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Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 55

anyone remember that that was from back in the day

and some internet silliness weirdness and we somehow decided was hilarious and

enrolled with but more importantly, this episode 55 has a really fun guess. It's

Michael Bungay Stagnier and it was just a really good time for me and because he sort of turned the tables, he irreverent we had a lot of laughs along the way and so it's just a fun conversation I hope you get to share in the funness of it so you're going to learn one why being a coach at work is a lot quicker

and easier than you might think. Two, how to give less advice while getting more

results and three, seven powerful questions for transforming your team.

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcripts, the links to things mentioned,

you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash Epp 55. So here's a bit about Michael his bio and his press section the website was so fun

I'm going to indulge a few more words for the sake of the laws here's the scoop Michael Bungay Stagner is the founder and senior partner of Box of Cranes, a company that helps people and

organizations all over the world do less good work and more great work. Box of Cranes is best known for its coaching programs that give busy managers the tools to coach in 10 minutes or less.

Michael left Australia 25 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where his only significant achievement was

falling in love with a Canadian, which is why he now lives in Toronto, having spent time in

London and Boston. He's written a number of books. His latest, The Coaching Habit, has been praised

as one of the few business books that actually make people laugh out loud. The book he's proud of is

in Malaria, a collection of essays on great work from leading

thinkers that raised $400,000 for Malaria No More.

Michael was the first Canadian coach of the year, pretty good for an Australian.

He was recently named number two coaching guru in the world,

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