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Your happiness and your success depend on your working relationshipsThe people you manage. How well you work with your boss. The way collaboration happens with colleagues and peers. How you connect with important prospects and key clients.But the hard truth is most of us leave the health and fate of these relationships to chance.We say “Hi,” exchange pleasantries … and hope for the best.But every relationship becomes suboptimal at some point, whether it’s a good one that goes off the rails or one that was poor from the start.Mostly we are resigned to the fact that this is what relationships always get a little broken, or a little stale, or a little worse. C’est la vie, c’est la guerre . Carry on.But it doesn’t have to be like this.Every working relationship can be better.This book shows you how to build the best possible relationship.One conversation. Five questions. Detailed guidance on how to prepare and set the relationship up for success. Key insights on how to maintain the relationship so that it will continue to thrive.

From the author of the mega-bestseller The Coaching Habit and The Advice Trap comes a book on how to choose a worthy goal so you can unlock a greater version of yourself.

"Michael Bungay Stanier's previous book, The Coaching Habit, gave you seven essential questions to be more coach-like. The Advice Trap is all about putting that habit into action: how to change your behaviour so you stay curious a little longer, and rush to action and advice-giving a little more slowly."--Back cover

Want to say less, work less, and have more impact? Stanier gives you the seven core questions that will help you provide more effective support to your employees and co-workers. By unlocking their potential, you'll be able to unlock your own.

Uses twelve short, thought provoking exercises that effectively force the reader to look at what his or her work really is, and find ways to change the mix. This title helps you assess your personal bad-good ratio; tap into the power of role models; and analyze those moments when work turned into a flow.