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Michael Bungay Stanier

Michael Bungay Stanier is a leading authority on coaching, leadership, and workplace communication. Best known for The Coaching Habit, which has sold over a million copies and been translated into 20 languages, his books and teaching have significantly impacted organizations’ approaches to developing coach-like leadership skills worldwide.

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Michael Bungay Stanier, often known as MBS, was born and raised in Canberra, Australia, where curiosity and a love of books shaped his early years. Overcoming challenges such as a cleft lip and slight speech impediment, he developed resilience and an enduring interest in reading and communication. Working as a milkman during his teenage years grounded him in values of fairness and responsibility, which would later shape his leadership philosophy. Academically distinguished, Stanier earned a BA and law degree from the Australian National University before being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he completed a Master of Philosophy in Modern Literature.

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The very nature of doing more Great Work means there will be times when you stumble, times you lose the path, times when you're hacking through the jungle
-The Coaching Habit
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This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it’s got a limited chance of making its way into your brain’s hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially
-The Coaching Habit
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The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do
-The Coaching Habit
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Bite your tongue, and don't fill the silence. I know it will be uncomfortable, and I know it creates space for learning and insight
-The Coaching Habit
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When you’re talking about people, though, you’re not really talking about them. You’re talking about a relationship and, specifically, about what your role is in this relationship that might currently be less than ideal
-The Coaching Habit
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The pattern we're breaking here is overworking the wrong problem, so the trigger is any time you start to focus on a particular challenge
-The Coaching Habit
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Silence is often a measure of success
-The Coaching Habit
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Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action
-The Coaching Habit
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Building a coaching habit will help your team be more self-sufficient by increasing their autonomy and sense of mastery and by reducing your need to jump in, take over and become the bottleneck
-The Coaching Habit
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The Kickstart Question: “What’s on your mind?” A perfect way to start many conversations. Both open and focusing at the same time. The AWE Question: “And what else?” The best coaching question in the world—because their first answer is never their only answer, and rarely their best answer. The Focus Question: “What’s the real challenge here for you?” We’re all wasting too much time and effort solving the wrong problem because we were seduced into thinking the first challenge is the real challenge. The Foundation Question: “What do you want?” This is where motivated and informed action best begins. The Strategy Question: “If you’re saying Yes to this, what must you say No to?” Strategy is about courageous choice, and this question makes commitment and opportunity cost absolutely clear. The Lazy Question: “How can I help?” The most powerful question to stop us from “rescuing” the other person. An alternative is, “What do you want from me?” The Learning Question: “What was most useful or valuable here for you?” Learning doesn’t happen when you tell them something, it happens when they figure it out for themselves
-The Coaching Habit

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"Michael Bungay Stanier is best known for The Coaching Habit, the best-selling book on coaching this century"

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"Michael Bungay Stanier is author of Do More Great Work, which sold 90,000 copies and is widely recognized for its impact"

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"Michael Bungay Stanier organized the Great Work MBA, a virtual conference featuring 30 world-class speakers and over 10,000 participants"

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"Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit has sold close to a million copies and is considered influential in coaching literature"

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"Michael Bungay Stanier's book How to Work With Almost Anyone shows how to build the best possible relationships at work"

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"Michael Bungay Stanier's End Malaria raised about $400,000 for Malaria No More and reached #2 on Amazon.com"

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"Managers worldwide use Michael Bungay Stanier's approach to unlock their teams' potential through his practical coaching methods"

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"Michael Bungay Stanier was a Rhodes Scholar and was named the first Canadian Coach of the Year"

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"Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, helping organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work"

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"Michael Bungay Stanier is recognized for engaging, interactive, and entertaining keynote sessions at major conferences"

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