The Coaching Habit’s 7 Questions
Most CEOs manage by answering: someone brings a problem, you solve it. That feels efficient and quietly makes you the bottleneck. Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit flips it: by asking a few good questions instead of jumping to advice, you get your team thinking for themselves, do less of their work, and have more impact. The whole practice runs on seven questions you can use in any conversation, even over email. The 7 Questions, in Brief "What's on your mind?" (start fast) "And what else?" (the best answer is rarely the first) "What's the real challenge here for you?"
