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Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 297 with Michael Bunge Stanyer.

He is back sharing some more insight about how to be more coach-like in your exchanges

and to reap the rewards that come with it. So you'll learn first why we more naturally give advice

rather than asking questions. Two, questions effective coaches ask and three, how to

deal with the uncouchable. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the

transcript or the links to items that we've referenced you can find that on over at

awesome at your job.com slash f-297. Now here is Michael's story.

Michael Bungay's Daniel is the founder of Box of Crayons, a company best known for teaching 10 minute coaching so that busy managers can build stronger teams and get better results.

All the way to founding a Box of Cayons in 2002, Michael lived in Australia, England, the

U.S. and Canada is current home.

He's a number of books whose latest The Wall Street Journal Best Seller The Coaching Habit has sold

over 350,000 copies. It's been praised as one of the

Coaching Habit has sold over 350,000 copies.

It has been praised as one of the few business books that actually makes people laugh out loud.

He was the first Canadian coach of the year, is a Rhodes scholar,

and was recently recognized as the number three global

guru in coaching. Balancing out these moments of success Michael was also banned

from his high school graduation for quote the balloon incident was sued by one of his law school lectures for defamation

and his first published piece of writing was a harlequid romance short story called

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