The Answer Is a Question

Paperback

Author:

Laura Ashley-Timms and Dominic Ashley-Timms

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

The Missing Superpower that Changes Everything and Will Transform Your Impact as a Manager and Leader

"The Answer is a Question redefines the purpose of management for the 21st century." - Matthew Syed, Author, Broadcaster and Columnist

As seen on BBC - Distinguished Favourite, NYC Big Book Award 2023

What if there was another way?

What if, instead of always giving your team the answer, you could help them find their own?

What if your everyday management conversations could become opportunities to coach and develop your people - helping them think more clearly, solve problems, take ownership and build their capability?

The Answer Is a Question is a practical management and coaching book for busy managers and leaders who want to develop their teams through the conversations they are already having at work.

Multi-award-winning performance consultants Dominic and Laura Ashley-Timms introduce the STAR® model and the new and proven approach to coaching in the flow of work - Operational Coaching®. Through practical examples, case studies and mini-missions, they show you how to use questions differently - not simply to find out more, but to help people think, learn and take responsibility for finding their own solutions.

"The book is fabulous... I have now bought 30 of these books and use them as a basis for discussion on how to deliver everyday coaching, every day!?" - Dean Lenton, Learning and Development Director

This book will help you to:

• Coach rather than tell - resist the instinct to step in to fix other people's problems or immediately provide the answer, and instead, help people develop their own thinking

• Turn everyday conversations into coaching conversations - use problems, decisions, challenges and opportunities as moments to develop your team and those around you - including friends and family!

• Build greater ownership and accountability - help your team take responsibility for finding solutions rather than automatically relying on you

• Develop a high-performing, independent team - build confidence, strengthen problem-solving ability and grow each team member's capability

• Reduce your management burden - stop being the bottleneck who has to solve every problem and win back valuable time and capacity for yourself

• Make coaching part of everyday management - without needing to become a professional coach or scheduling formal coaching sessions every time someone needs help

In The Answer Is a Question, multi-award-winning performance consultants Dominic and Laura Ashley-Timms set out a simple approach for rehumanising the practice of management.

In a step-by-step walk-through of their ground-breaking STAR® model (used by FTSE and Fortune 500 companies), they'll show how you can develop a new superpower that's been proven to work by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in a major academic study across sixty-two organisations.

This book is produced in stunning full colour and provides invaluable insights, examples, and mini-missions that will show you precisely how to make some immediate changes that will yield fast and exciting results and revolutionise how you manage forever.

This isn't another post-pandemic management guide contemplating the nuances of remote work. The Answer is a Question is the distillation of hard-won insights into actionable, measurable steps.

The Missing Superpower That Changes Everything And Will Transform Your Impact As A Manager And Leader.

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Extent	320 pages	ISBN	9780117093911
Size	A4	Price	£19.99
Format	Paperback	Published	12 Oct 2022
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