625: The Coaching Habit That Brings Out The Best In People with Michael Bungay Stanier
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
What if the fastest way to create deeper conversations, improve your leadership abilities, and your relationships wasn't a better plan—but a better question?
My guest today is Michael Bungay Stanier, bestselling author of The Coaching Habit, the most popular coaching book of the century, to unpack why most of us rush to give advice too quickly and how staying curious just a little longer can change everything.
You'll hear Michael talk about why we're all "advice-giving maniacs," how asking better questions leads to better outcomes, and the simple coaching framework Michael has taught to coaches and leaders around the world. You'll learn his most powerful questions and why they unlock clarity, accountability, and trust.
Whether you're a parent, leader, manager, spouse, or maybe you're someone who wants deeper, more meaningful conversations, you'll learn how coaching is really about helping people feel seen, heard, and empowered—not fixed.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- One Thing That The Best Coaches Do
- The Best Way to Avoid Giving Unwanted Advice
- The Power Of Asking One Question & Then Listening
- How Michael Pivoted From His Coaching Practice
- Accountability Isn't About Cracking a Whip
- Systems That Help You Follow-Through On Your Goal
- How Money & Side Bets Are Powerful Motivators
- How To Be Useful When Someone Asks for Advice
- The Best Question a Coach Can Ask to Dig Deeper
- How to Learn More From Michael
- The Deeper Gift that Coaching Offers
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, |
| 0:16.6 | as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals |
| 0:21.9 | themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what |
| 0:26.4 | you need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go. What if the fastest way to get unstuck |
| 0:37.3 | in your life and your relationships isn't a better plan, but it's a better question? |
| 0:41.3 | In today's episode, I'm sitting down with the one and only Michael Bungay Stanyer, author of The Coaching Habit, |
| 0:47.1 | which, by the way, is the bestselling book on coaching this century. |
| 0:50.7 | It's celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2026. |
| 0:53.5 | And this conversation is not just for coaches. |
| 0:56.0 | To be clear, it's for anyone who leads, parents, manages, mentors, or just wants better relationships |
| 1:03.8 | and better results. You're going to learn the core skill that makes coaching so powerful, |
| 1:09.0 | staying curious a little longer, and rushing to advice a little |
| 1:13.1 | slower. Because most of us are, in Michael's words, advice giving maniacs, guilty. We break down |
| 1:19.7 | his simple, practical questions like, what's on your mind? To get people to open up and share |
| 1:24.2 | what they're struggling with or what they're worried about. What's the real challenge here for you? |
| 1:29.2 | To get people to really reflect and dig deeper and the game changing question. |
| 1:33.3 | And what else? |
| 1:34.4 | And what else? |
| 1:35.0 | And what else? |
| 1:35.4 | To really dig deeper to the heart of the issue. |
| 1:38.7 | We're talking also about accountability, not as somebody crack in the whip, but as designing |
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