Tag: Questions

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

‘The Path To Boundless Leadership’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When your people are struggling, don’t leave them alone. When they are lost, bring them back to where they are supposed to be.

Empower them. Show them the way forward. That is what great leaders do.

The question is, ‘Is that what you are doing right now?’

According to Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan, ‘If we want to arrive at our full potential in business or life, we must expand our awareness.’

‘When we’re not self-aware, we’re not able to self-correct for our negativity bias and unconsciously close ourselves off to what’s good in ourselves, other people, and the situations we face.’

‘When we interact with others, we can become more focused on who we think they are than on who they truly are or what they’re saying.’

‘When we change the quality of our input and the way we process information, not only does our perspective expand and changes, but we see more clearly and completely what can be changed in our organization or in any given situation.’

‘Developing clarity in any one moment is like standing on a threshold that can lead to a new way of being based in the trait of self-awareness.’

‘When conflicting intentions motivate our actions and reactions, they create a dissonance that detracts from our effectiveness.’

‘What makes boundless leadership different from conventional leadership is that it allows us to observe, check, and adjust what our minds are doing at any given moment.’

‘As boundless leaders, metacognition allows us to push our capacity for self-awareness much further, so we’re reaching the full scope of what is happening in any given situation- with fewer or even no unseen biases or limitations.’

‘The path to boundless leadership is not about accumulating more knowledge and skills or remedying our deficiencies to improve our leadership. Rather, it’s a counterintuitive path that begins with exposing and eliminating self-limiting obscurations, so we can gradually access and develop our unlimited yet dormant potential for thriving.’

‘Compassion is not about being nice or pleasing others- it’s about relating with accurate empathy, concern, and skill to the reality of other people’s lived experience, a vital step toward social cooperation that explains the powerful win-win biology and psychology of positive emotions evident in the new fields of affective neuroscience and positive psychology.’

Source:

Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan (2021). Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others & Ignite Positive Change