How to Ask Purposeful Questions to Engage Your Team By Lee Colan
Every leader has favorite questions, but they do not always elicit the insights they want.
Plenty of books are filled with lists of questions, but asking questions without a clear objective is like playing the question lotto. Very occasionally you might get lucky and win, but most of the time you will come up empty-handed. That’s a loss for you and for your team member. There is rarely a right answer to a wrong question.
There are four main reasons to ask questions: to understand, assess, innovate and motivate. It is important to understand your objectives before you start asking. Within each objective, your question might focus on the person or the project/process. For example, if you want to understand, most leaders jump directly to questions that help them understand their team’s projects and processes by asking:
- What’s the goal?
- What’s the plan?
- What are your options?
However, excellent leaders start with questions to help understand their people, such as:
- In which areas would you like to grow?
- What do you love to do?
- What do you need to be at your very best?
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ANNOUNCING CEO COACHING ONE-ON-ONE
Over the year’s people have asked “When are you going to stop speaking, and what will you do afterward?” My answer has been that I enjoy the speaking and travel so much, I will continue until it’s no longer fun or my audiences feel I am not delivering the content. I still enjoy the speaking/travel, and my audiences are still satisfied HOWEVER, in the interest of spending more time at home with my wife Bonnie as she battles cancer, I have decided to start offering CEO COACHING.
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Greatest hits are exhausting by Seth Godin
If all you consume is the most-read list, if all you listen to are the hits, if all you eat is the most popular item on the menu—you’re missing out.
The web has pushed us to read what everyone else is reading, the hit of the day. But popular isn’t the same as important. Popular isn’t the same as profound. Popular isn’t even the same as useful.
To make something popular, the creator leaves out the hard parts and amps up the crowd-pleasing riffs. To make something popular, the creator knows that she’s dumbing things down in exchange for attention.
The songs you love the most, the soundtrack of your life–almost none of them were #1 on the Billboard charts. And the same goes for the books that changed the way you see the world or the lessons that have transformed your life.
Popularity doesn’t mean ‘best’. It merely means popular. |
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