The Coaching Habit

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of The Coaching Habit pulls out 8 insights. Here are the first three.

1. Build the habit of staying curious slightly longer and rushing to advice slightly more slowly; your suggestions are rarely as good as you think, and they keep your people dependent on you.
2. Open conversations with the Kickstart Question, "What's on your mind?" It skips the small talk and lets the other person name what actually matters instead of what's merely urgent.
3. Ask "And what else?" (the AWE Question) before you respond. The first answer is almost never the only or the best one, and this single question generates more options while buying you time to resist your Advice Monster.

The other 5 — and the full 8-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 9 chapters

The whole summary runs about 8 minutes, read or listened to.

1. Why Coaching Beats Advice-Giving
2. The Kickstart Question: What's on Your Mind?
3. The AWE Question: And What Else?
4. The Focus Question: What's the Real Challenge Here for You?
5. The Foundation Question: What Do You Want?
6. The Lazy Question: How Can I Help?
7. The Strategic Question: If You're Saying Yes, What Are You Saying No To?
8. The Learning Question: What Was Most Useful for You?
9. Building the Habit: Make Coaching Stick