When he was on the campaign trail before becoming President of the United States, Barack Obama was quoted as saying, “Leaders don’t need the answers. They just need to know what questions to ask.”
In order to get the change in behaviour you need from your team members (or child, spouse, partner or friend) you need to guide their thinking.
The key tool you have to guiding their thinking are the words you choose to use, the questions you choose to ask and the conversations you choose to have. Today we’re going to focus on the questions that you choose to ask.
Last week we checked out why you would ask questions to kick butt. This week we’ll examine how you might go about this.