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

The Coaching Habit presents a method for integrating coaching into daily management interactions so that managers and their teams can work more efficiently and achieve greater impact. Drawing on experience training over 10,000 managers worldwide, Michael Bungay Stanier outlines seven coaching questions designed to help leaders unlock their people's potential by asking more and saying less. The seven questions covered are: The Kickstart Question, The Awe Question, The Lazy Question, The Strategic Question, The Focus Question, The Foundation Question, and The Learning Question. Each addresses different aspects of workplace conversations and challenges. The book combines practical advice with research in neuroscience and behavioral economics, along with interactive training tools to help readers develop coaching as a daily habit. Written in a conversational style, it aims to transform workplace dynamics from good to great by teaching managers how to guide others toward their own solutions rather than providing answers directly.