How do you get your team to be more resourceful? What’s the best way to help people think for themselves before they come to you? And how do you stop being the person everyone relies on for the answer without becoming hands-off, unavailable, or unclear? In this episode, Melody sits down with Michael Bungay Stanier, author of *The Coaching Habit* *(+*1 million copies sold) to talk about how busy leaders can build smarter, more capable, lower-drama teams through becoming more coach-like.
**You’ll Discover:**
- The 4-word question to open every 1:1 with — that finally gets past the canned update
- The phrase Michael calls "possibly the best coaching question in the world" (and why you should ask it multiple times in a row)
- The #1 thing to say when a meeting is going off the rails to get your team back on track
- How to coach UP the chain of command, even with executives levels above you
**About Michael**
Michael Bungay Stanier is best known for *The Coaching Habit*, the best-selling coaching book of the century. His other books include *How to Work with (Almost) Anyone*, which is about building the Best Possible Relationship with key people at work. He’s part of the MasterClass faculty, and is the host of the *Change Signal* podcast. Michael was a Rhodes Scholar, and was recently admitted as a Thinkers50 Coaching Legend (“the Oscars of Management”). Learn more at MBS.works.
https://melodywilding.com/training
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