Summary of The Advice Trap by Michael Bungay Stanier

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Everyone hates to receive advice, but everyone loves to give it. Unfortunately, most advice is useless. To stop giving other people a piece of your mind, Michael Bungay Stanier – author of the best-selling The Coaching Habit – urges you to corral your “Advice Monster.” Stanier’s guidebook, which he describes as “a manual, a playbook, a studio, a dojo,” tells you how to make the transition from gratuitous meddler to helpful coach.

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Sujets

• Mentoring
• Gestion et management
• management
• Economics
• Business
• Coaching

Informations

• Publié par: GetAbstract AG
• Date de parution: 16 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798887270012
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Advice Trap
Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Michael Stanier•Page Two © 2020•264 pages

Life Advice

Rating:9

Applicable
Engaging
Well Structured

Take-Aways Most of the advice people give is worthless, but their inner “Advice Monster” insists on giving it anyway. Advice giving is bad for the advice giver, the advice receiver, the team and the organization. Learn to shut down your advice monster and become more like a coach. Quality coaching requires developing a “coaching habit.” Quality coaching adheres to three principles: “Be lazy, be curious” and “be often.” When you are lazy, you listen instead of jumping in instantly to give advice. Ask seven types of questions: “kickstart, AWE, focus, foundation, strategy, lazy” and “learning.” Instead of giving advice, help people identify their challenges. Good coaches are generous, vulnerable and studious. Move past the myopic “Present You” to become the sagacious “Future You.”

Recommendation
Everyone hates to receive advice, but everyone loves to give it. Unfortunately, most advice is useless. To stop giving other people a piece of your mind, Michael Bungay Stanier – author of the best-selling The Coaching Habit – urges you to corral your “Advice Monster.” Stanier’s guidebook, which he describes as “a manual, a playbook, a studio, a dojo,” tells you how to make the transition from gratuitous meddler to helpful coach.

Summary
Most of the advice people give is worthless, but their inner “Advice Monster” insists on giving it anyway.
You – and everyone else – possess an internal advice monster who loves to give advice at every opportunity. Unfortunately, most of it is useless – or even destructive.