237: These Coaching Questions Get Results, with Michael Bungay Stanier

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 21 March 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Michael Bungay Stanier: The Coaching Habit Michael is the bestselling author of The Coaching Habit*. In this episode, he teaches us the key coaching questions to help others improve. Quotes I think there are as many definitions for coaching as there are people selling coaching. —Michael Bungay Stanier Slow down on the advice giving, and stay curious just a little bit longer. —Michael Bungay Stanier That’s part of the nature of a system; as soon you start changing stuff, it starts pushing back. —Michael Bungay Stanier Your organization is a system, and the very nature of a system is to love its own system. —Michael Bungay Stanier You want people to become lazy coaches … lazy because you want the other person to be doing the work. When they’re doing the work, they’re actually unlocking their own potential … you’re helping them to learn, rather than teaching them. —Michael Bungay Stanier We’re all okay with saying no to the stuff we don’t really want to do, but do we have the courage and discipline to say no to the stuff we do want to do? —Michael Bungay Stanier Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	We talk about coaching a lot on this show, but when you're actually sitting in front of someone, what do you say?
0:08.0	On today's show, the questions that you can ask that will absolutely help you coach more effectively.
0:15.0	This is Coaching for Leaders episode 237.
0:19.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, learning, maximizing human potential.
0:23.6	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:31.5	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac.
0:36.2	Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show will give you access to the best
0:41.2	thinkers, resources, and actions that will help you to develop
0:46.0	your leadership skills. And speaking of leaders not being born and being made, one of the key
0:52.0	skill sets for that is how we can be more effective
0:55.5	as coaches and not only us being opened ourselves as leaders to being coached but
1:02.0	also being able to do that coaching for others.
1:04.5	And coaching is one of those terms that is, although we all agree that it's important,
1:11.2	it is one of those things that sometimes we don't really know what to do practically with it and we've heard we need to be good coaches as leaders and yet
1:17.9	Sometimes it's hard to know where to start and that's why I'm really glad to welcome today's guests because he's going to really help to provide a little more insight for each one of us of what we can do practically to become more effective in our coaching skills and specifically how we can really utilize great questions.
1:37.6	And my guest today is Michael Bunge Stagnier.
1:41.2	He is the founder and senior partner of Box of Cranes, a company that helps
1:46.1	organizations all over the world do less good work and more great work and he has
1:52.1	written a number of books.
1:53.5	The best known with almost 100,000 copies sold is do more great work.
1:58.0	But the one he's proudest of is Enmalaria,
2:00.5	a collection of essays on great work with leading thinkers which has raised over $400,000 for malaria no more. Michael was also the first Canadian coach of the year which is not bad for an Australian and just so you know he's
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