Posts Tagged ‘advice’
Give Advice = Change Today/Avoid Advice = Grow the Future
You remember last month one of the aspects that Karen Anderson lifted up in her article was about easy change and hard change. You were reminded of our Powerful Coaching seminar: technical change vs adaptive change. Adaptive change is the hard stuff; changing your mindset, your core principles and values. Dumping the habit of giving…
Read MoreADVICE…THE GIFT THAT DOES NOT KEEP ON GIVING
April is always a month of hopefulness, new beginnings, and smiles! Last month, my colleague, Karen Anderson, shared some juicy learnings from the book, The Advice Trap by Michael B Stanier. Everyone is hopeful when they ask for advice. This is a topic that is ubiquitous to every seminar we provide on coaching so it’s…
Read MoreThe Damage of Giving Advice and Four Steps to Tame Your Advice Monster
The Advice Trap – Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way you Lead Forever has been the focus of this month’s social media articles. So far, we have explored Easy and Hard Change, The Advice Personas, and Six Foggy-fiers that interfere with our work as coaches. This article will look at the dark side…
Read MoreThe Three Personas of the Advice Monster and Six Foggy-fiers
Continuing our study of Michael Bungay Stanier’s book, The Advice Trap, this article will explore two concepts – The Three Personas of the Advice Monster and Six Foggy-fiers. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it. Michael says the Advice Monster likes to inhabit three personas – Tell-It, Save-It, and Control-It. Using his tag line from the book –…
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