Michael Bungay Stanier

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505 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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There's just a kind of a presence to the struggle or a presence to whatever's going on with you.

So, you know, the definition I have for coaching is, can you stay curious a little bit longer?

Can you rush to action and advice giving a little bit more slowly?

So it doesn't preclude giving advice.

That's one of the things that drives me nuts around coaching, which is like, you can never give advice.

I'm like...

That feels like it's a selfish decision.

What you're trying to do is to be as helpful as possible to the person who you're serving, who you're in conversation with.

And partly you can understand that from what they want.

You can ask them, hey, how can I help?

It's actually another one of the questions in the Coaching Habit book.

How can I help?

What do you want from me?

And sometimes the more subtle insight here is when they tell you what they want, you don't have to say yes.

You can say yes or no or maybe.

Like I could say, hey, Eric, how can I help you here?

And Eric was like, tell me the answer to this thing.

And I'm like, okay, he wants the answer.

I've got an answer.

I will make sure he gets an answer, but I don't have to give it to him right away.

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