Hi friends,

This week’s Monday Mentions contains several books I’ve recently read or intend to read soon.

What are you reading?

Bobby

The Coaching Habit by Michael Stanier

I think every team member deserves a coaching leader. This book will help you become one!

From Amazon

In Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact.
Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples’ potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how–by saying less and asking more–you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.

• Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question
  
• Stay on track during any interaction with The Awe Question
  
• Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question, and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question
  
• Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question and The Foundation Question
  
• Finally ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning Question
  

A fresh innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioral economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work–and your workplace–from good to great.

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

I am working on a writing project this year. This book comes highly recommended by writers. I plan to read it very soon.

From Amazon:

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.

Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.