Tag: Questioning

Why Great Leaders Lead With Questions

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Great leaders are not afraid to lead with questions. They don’t assume they know what others are thinking.

If you want to know more, ask the right questions. If you are not getting the right answers from your people, ask more questions.

Questions show you where to go next. Questions make things better, not worse.

According to Michael J. MarQuardt and Bob Tiede, ‘Leaders must have a deep commitment to listening to others, and thereby become better able to identify and clarify the will of a group.’

‘Leaders need to be careful not to interrupt; rather, they should make sure they have a complete understanding of the situation.’

‘Leaders should be careful not to rush the responses to their questions. A good question will often cause the recipient to step back and reflect.’

‘Leaders should be comfortable when there is no immediate response to a question.’

‘Leaders ask better questions when they are curious rather than demanding.’

‘A questing mindset shows that you care about the other person.’

‘Empowering questions help develop alignment within teams and draw out the optimum performance from individual members and the team as a whole.’

‘Questioning leaders are confident and willing to challenge beliefs and assumptions.’

‘Questioning leaders recognize that everyone is needed, and that everyone should serve one another, if the organization is to be successful.’

‘Questioning leaders … improve their ability to teach, mentor, and coach.’

‘Leaders who ask questions develop their emotional intelligence through questions.’

‘A questioning culture encourages reflection.’

Source:

Michael J. MarQuardt and Bob Tiede (2023). Leading with Questions: How Leaders Discover Powerful Answers by Knowing How and What to Ask

To Know More, You Must Question More

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes, Personal Development

If you want to know more about yourself, you must question more. According to Sara Elise, ‘Questioning is the first step in your manifestation work…. It’s a process and a practice that allows you to firmly say, ‘I’m doing the dreaming and deciding for yourself.’

Do not follow the crowd. If you want to stand out, you must question everything. ‘Questioning everything is another step to creating a life for yourself beyond the realms of these structures, beyond the realms of what other people have dreamed and decided for you.’

Whatever you want in your life, you can seek it out yourself. Do not put your life at risk. Decide for yourself. Ask real questions. The more questions you ask, the better for you.

Because ‘questioning everything is about shaking things up, shaking loose our mental bondage.’ You have got to do that. Do not believe the lies that you have been telling yourself. You must shake them off. You must focus on what is going on in your life right now, what you are trying to accomplish right now.

‘Questioning is about getting a snapshot of the current situation so that you can properly assess it.’

You are not going to know what is going on around you if you do not have the courage to question yourself, to hear yourself, and to have the courage to ask real questions.

‘Questioning ourselves provides the foundation for understanding ourselves, assessing our needs, and then being able to communicate them to others.’

But know this: ‘Questioning everything is not permission for being inconsiderate, hurt, or self-absorbed or for going only where you feel a rush of excitement and adrenaline, because then you are creating space only for addiction, numbing, and immediate satisfaction.’

Remember, if you want to know more about things, ask more questions.

Source: Sara Elise (2023). A Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease