The Advice Trap
Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever
by Michael Bungay Stanier
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Pub Date Feb 29 2020 | Archive Date Jan 09 2020
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Description
From the author of the runaway bestseller The Coaching Habit comes an authoritative guide to getting the most out of your workforce―and it all starts with curbing your urge to dole out advice. In The Advice Trap, bestselling author, speaker, and leadership coach Michael Bungay Stanier shares his invaluable insights into developing team members’ professional performance, using tips that even the busiest managers can put into play.
Learn how to confront and quell the three advice monsters that lurk inside us all, and how to resist the seven temptations that can ensnare even the most well-meaning manager. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Michael shows you exactly how to ask questions that drive impact and engagement, eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive. He takes you through examples of common problem situations, and reveals how to overcome them by using his everyday coaching tips. Finally, he shows you how to attain the highest level of engagement with his “blackbelt” tools of employee interaction: transparency, lightness and deep appreciation.
A companion to The Coaching Habit, The Advice Trap gives you the power to say less, ask more―and change how you lead forever.
Author Bio:
MICHAEL BUNGAY STANIER is at the forefront of shaping how organizations around the world make being coach-like an essential leadership competency. His book, The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way Your Lead Forever, is the Wall Street Journal best-selling coaching book of this century, with over 600,000 copies sold and 1,000+ 5-star reviews on Amazon. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Michael was named the first Canadian Coach of the Year in 2006 and has been named a Global Coaching Guru since 2014. He is also the founder of Box of Crayons, an organization that champions coaching skills as a force for manager excellence and leader capability for clients including Microsoft, Salesforce, Gucci and TELUS. A compelling and sought-after keynote speaker, who combines practicality, humor, and an unprecedented degree of engagement with the audience, Michael has spoken to global crowds ranging from 10 to 10,000 and has been named the #1 thought leader in coaching for 2019 by Thinkers50.
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Advance Praise
"Michael Bungay Stanier distills the essentials of coaching to seven core questions. And if you master his simple yet profound technique, you'll get a two-fer. You'll provide more effective support to your employees and co-workers. And you may find that you become the ultimate coach for yourself." --Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive
"Coaching is an art, and it's far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide an answer or unleash a solution. Giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. It can also mean unlearning our "fix it" habits. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And he guides us through the tricky part: how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice." --Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly
"What can you do to become a better leader? Michael asks and answers this question by offering aspiring leaders seven thoughtful questions that will change their leadership habits. This book is full of practical, useful and interesting questions, ideas and tools that will guide any leader trying to be better. --Dave Ulrich, co-author of The Why of Work and The Leadership Code
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781989025758 |
| PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 224 |
Featured Reviews
Shelly H, Reviewer
The Advice Trap picks up where the Coaching Habit left off. Effective coaches motivate their employees and get the most out of their workforce. Acting as advisor rather can be quite problematic, explains author Michael Bungay Stanier. It shifts away from informative feedback loops in favor of limiting, one-directional interactions. Such interactions compromise other’s autonomy, mastery and purpose, which are drivers of worker satisfaction and production. It also takes away team member’s accountability in managing their responsibilities. So, what is a coach to do? The Advice Trap offers several salient tips.
You don’t need to be a team leader or coach in a professional capacity to benefit from the information in this book. Many of us can benefit from taming our well-intended “advice monster.” There are journal pages at the end of each section to go deep with our own personal issued. This is a great informative aid.
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