Good questions change everything. Good questions shine a light in places we didn’t think to look. They push us forward and they open doors to areas we may not have thought to look.They challenge us.They change us. Good questions take work to ask . . because a measured thoughtful generous question isn’t one that’s been tossed at you from afar. It comes from empathy, from thoughtful generous provocation . . Good questions take work to answer . . because they push you somewhere new. They pivot . . what you may have thought or where you might have been heading. Because they require honesty, if you’re really going to answer them.
They’re humbling, and sometimes they take a lot of emotional labour. But if you’re willing to do the work . . they can be change agents. For your thinking, your writing, your work, your relationships . . and your life.
Collect good questions and practice using them, hearing them and responding to them.
Good questions prompt rather than direct. They encourage people to level up & lead. They're purposefully provocative rather than authoritative and their aim is to build productive, meaningful relationships within the company.
Good questions take work to ask . . because a measured thoughtful generous question isn't one that's been tossed at you from afar. It comes from empathy, from thoughtful generous provocation.
Good questions take work to answer . . because they push you somewhere new. They pivot . . what you may have thought or where you might have been heading. Because they require honesty, if you're really going to answer them.
Great questions prompt us to reflect and self-correct, they encourage emergent learning, infinitely more useful & powerful than experience alone. The experience of grappling, solving, reflecting & responding . . to your own work.
Connect and embed new team members in a meaningful way that really matters.
Progress moves at the speed of trust.
Good coaching questions propel us forward towards a posture where we can self-learn and self-lead.
Build a strong purposeful team culture with shared signals about how you'll be not just what you'll do.
Show up with the posture to listen to eachother with the same passion with which we'd like to be heard.
We'd love to hear it.