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

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

Michael Bungay Stanier

Publisher: Box of Crayons Press, 2016, 242 pages
ISBN: 978-0978440749

Summary

This is a practical “how to” manual for learning how to coach people. Coaching is presented as listening and getting people to surface their own solutions. The author provides a simple, seven question approach.

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