361: The Truth and Lies of Performance Management, with Michael Bungay Stanier
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Michael Bungay Stanier: The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier 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. He’s the author of The Coaching Habit*, a Wall Street Journal bestseller that’s been the #1 coaching book on Amazon since its release.
Key Points
- If you become more coach-like, you’ll be able to have more impact without working as hard.
- Every culture is different, so they’ll require different systems.
- Focus less on performance appraisals and more on coaching conversations.
- There is a natural tension between the organization as a machine and the human beings who work there.
Resources Mentioned
- The Truth & Lies of Performance Management report
- The Coaching Habit* by Michael Bungay Stanier
Report Notes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you figured out how to balance the coaching conversations you'd like to be having more of with the necessary but often laborious performance appraisals? |
| 0:10.0 | In this episode, Insight on Research from Michael Bunge Stagner on what's really happening out there |
| 0:15.2 | with performance management. This is Coaching for Leaders episode 361. |
| 0:19.7 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:25.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:32.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:37.0 | Leaders aren't born. |
| 0:38.6 | They're made, and this weekly show gives you access |
| 0:41.1 | to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:46.3 | You have certainly heard the term performance management. |
| 0:49.6 | It's one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot in organizations, certainly in leadership. |
| 0:53.8 | And yet I don't know if most of us have done a lot of thinking on performance management and |
| 0:59.2 | probably even more importantly today, what does it mean? |
| 1:01.7 | What's changing around performance management? |
| 1:04.4 | You've certainly heard about this a bit, but today I'm hoping you can walk away from this conversation |
| 1:09.9 | with a ton of strategy and thinking about what you can do not only as an individual leader but as an organization |
| 1:16.6 | to be more effective in your practices on performance management. |
| 1:19.6 | I am thrilled to welcome back to the show, someone who is absolutely an expert in this area, Michael |
| 1:24.8 | Bungay Stagnier. He is the founder of Box of Cranz, a company best known for teaching 10 minute coaching |
| 1:30.8 | so that busy managers can build stronger teams and get better results. |
| 1:34.4 | He's the author of the coaching habit, a Wall Street Journal bestseller that sold over 350,000 |
| 1:40.8 | copies. It has been the number one coaching book on Amazon since its release. |
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