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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Leadership Corner: Recommended Resource

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Recommended Resource

Effective leaders continually develop their skills. One of the best ways to develop your skills is to read great books. Recently in order to develop my skills in coaching, someone leading a training on the subject of coaching (Michael L. Forney, founder of Gravitational Leadership and a Christian leadership writer http://www.gravitationalleadership.com/), recommended I read a book. It is a great book. The book is:

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

The book is written by Michael Bungay Stanier. Michael is the founder and CEO of Box of Crayons a leadership consulting and training organization. More information including podcasts and resources can be found at the website https://boxofcrayons.com/ 

The book integrates videos with each chapter. The videos can be viewed at https://boxofcrayons.com/the-coaching-habit-book/the-coaching-habit-videos/

The book also contains a list of recommended books for every leaders library on a broad range of topics.

To become an effective leader it essential that you see your self as a coach of those you lead. In doing so you will empower them to do great work and you will do less work. A coach is not a mentor. A mentor is an expert to whom people come to for advice. A coach on the other hand comes alongside the person being coached and through the use of questions and listening and on occasion some advice helps them become the expert.

The book is built around seven key questions as follows:

1. The Kickstart Question
    "What's on your mind?"

2. The AWE Question
    "And what else?"

3. The Focus Question
    "What's the real challenge for you here?"

4. The Foundation Question
    "What do you want"?

5. The Lazy Question
    "How can I help?"

6. The Strategic Question
    "If you are saying YES to this, what are you saying NO to?

7. The Learning Question
    "What was most useful to you?"

This book is highly recommended. 

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