Dec 15, 2020 | Leadership and Management, Questioning |
As a leader, my most important meetings are my 1-on-1’s with my direct reports. It is the single best investment of my time, and yet I have seen most leaders clueless about its importance. These 20 questions will help you turn your 1-on-1 meetings into sources of...
Aug 5, 2020 | Questioning |
Do your conversations seem artificial and meaningless? Do you find it difficult to go beyond niceties and connect with your employees? What do you do when the answers you get are rote, scripted, and hide the “real” stuff underneath them? The innocuous “How are you?”...
Jul 10, 2020 | Questioning |
One of the most important tasks of a leader is to support her people with the challenges they face. However, in the pressure-filled and fast-paced routine of everyday work, the challenges each one of us face might not be easily identifiable. Due to workplace culture...
Jun 19, 2020 | Deploy Yourself, Questioning |
After leading teams for the last decade and a half, if there is one skill that has made the biggest difference in my ability to improve individual and team performance, it has been my ability to Ask Powerful Questions. This is not to say that other skills like...
