874: The Five Questions that Build the Best Possible Relationships with Michael Bungay Stanier

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Michael Bungay Stanier reveals the simple secret to forging better relationships at work and in life.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The key factor that builds and ruins relationships.

2) The way to mend damaged relationships.

3) The simple question that helps maintain your relationships.

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— ABOUT MICHAEL —

Michael Bungay Stanier helps people know they’re awesome and they’re doing great. He’s best known for The Coaching Habit, the best-selling coaching book of the century and already recognized as a classic. His new book, How to Work with (Almost) Anyone, does what it says on the label. Michael was a Rhodes scholar and dabbles in the ukulele. He’s Australian, and lives in Toronto, Canada.

• Book: How to Work with (Almost) Anyone: Five Questions for Building the Best Possible Relationships (website)

• Book: The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

• Website: MBS.works

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Managing Up: How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss by Mary Abbajay

• Book: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Young

• Book: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

• Book: An Imaginary Life by David Malouf

• Past episode: 275: How to Manage Your Manager with Mary Abbajay

• Past episode: 279: How to Feel More Alive at Work with Dan Cable

• Past episode: 707: Amy Edmondson on How to Build Thriving Teams with Psychological Safety

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McHydus.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to episode 874 with Michael Bungaiste and here.
0:23.0	We brought Michael back a fourth time because he has so much fantastic wisdom.
0:29.0	Fun fact four times is the record shared by Brian A. Hurn.
0:33.0	So there's that.
0:35.0	And once again, Michael has got some fantastic questions that he's thought through in depth.
0:40.0	He has battled tested them.
0:42.0	He's refined them and we just get the goods at the end of all of that process of discovery.
0:47.0	These five questions help you build the best possible relationship, which Michael emphasizes is not the best relationship, but the best possible relationship.
0:56.0	And there's a difference.
0:57.0	And within that, there is hope.
0:59.0	So you'll learn a bunch of stuff, including one, the key factor that builds and ruins relationships.
1:04.0	Two, the way to mend damaged relationships.
1:06.0	And three, the simple question that helps maintain your relationships.
1:10.0	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to bits that we've mentioned here, please.
1:15.0	Place a visit over at awesome at your job.com slash ep874.
1:20.0	And while you're at awesome at your job, I recommend you check out some cool stuff like the gold nuggets.
1:25.0	That gives you summary with some written up in an email you can read in about two or three minutes from Michael.
1:32.0	And each episode as the guests go live as well as opening up the archive of the vault of all of the historical ones.
1:38.0	874 now and counting because those the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com.
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