Show Notes: Book of the Week – The Coaching Habit
Episode 247 of The HaltingWinter Podcast

This week in the MLDC, Seth Winterhalter introduces "The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever" by Michael Bungay Stanier, and it's one of the best-selling coaching books of this century for a reason. Drawing on research with over 10,000 managers, Seth explores why the instinct to immediately provide answers might actually be undermining your leadership effectiveness.

Discover how advice-giving creates three destructive patterns: over-dependent teams that wait for your direction, overwhelming workloads as you become the bottleneck for every decision, and disconnection from real organizational challenges as you focus on fixing symptoms instead of understanding root causes.

This week in the Municipal Leadership Development Collective (MLDC), we're diving deep into seven powerful questions that can transform how city managers, county administrators, and department heads lead their teams. Seth explains how asking the right questions at the right time can help you gather better information, develop your team's problem-solving capability, and focus your expertise where it's most needed.

If you've been feeling overwhelmed by constant problem-solving, if your team seems overly dependent on you, or if you're working harder than ever but feeling less effective, this episode offers a path forward.

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Resources Mentioned

• Book: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
• MLDC Info: www.haltingwinter.com/mldc

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