Book Titles

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

By Michael Stanier

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0978440749
Categories: Coaching

43 Quotes Found

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The Coaching Habit:

It’s hard to change your behavior, and it takes courage to have a go at doing something differently, and resilience to keep at it when it doesn’t work perfectly the first time (which it won’t).

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The Coaching Habit:

One of the laws of change: As soon as you try something new, you’ll get resistance.

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The Coaching Habit:

An almost fail-safe way to start a chat that quickly turns into a real conversation is the question, ‘What’s on your mind?’

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The Coaching Habit:

Answers are closed rooms: and questions are open doors that invite us in.

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The Coaching Habit:

…one of the fundamental truths that neuroscience has laid bare: we are what we give our attention to.

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The Coaching Habit:

I know they seem innocuous. Three little words. But ‘And What Else?’ – the AWE Question – has magical properties.

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The Coaching Habit:

…remember that the first answer someone gives you is almost never the only answer, and it’s rarely the best answer.

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The Coaching Habit:

’And what else?’ is the quickest and easiest way to uncover and create new possibilities.

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The Coaching Habit:

Ask the right questions if you’re going to find the right answers. – Vanessa Redgrave

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The Coaching Habit:

Stop offering up advice with a question mark attached?

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