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Discussion Question(s):

Read the following blog by Andy Cleff by going here: https://www.andycleff.com/2020/06/stop-giving-answers-ask-powerful-questions/.
Then, be prepared to discuss the following questions.

a) As a leader, why do you think it is important to stop just telling people what to do or what “the answers” are to everything?

b) What are your greatest takeaways from the article?

c) What are some of the characteristics or features of a powerful question?

d) If you were the leader in a group and one of your groupmates told you, “I feel like we are stuck, and I don’t know what to do”, what could be a question you could ask to guide him or her to figuring out an independent way to tackle that obstacle?

Sagot :

Answer:

a) Let’s say you’re in a position of leadership.

Maybe you lead a small team, a large organization, one part-time intern, a group of volunteers - maybe your position of leadership is formal, informal, explicit, or implicit.

How do you get the people on your team to actually do all the big, medium, and small things that need to happen, at the right time, and in the right way?

Should you sit down, create a project plan along with a task list and timeline for each team member, and hold a meeting with each person to hand out their assignments?

This might make it difficult to make sure people are working together well, so maybe it would be better to create a unified “master plan”, and present it to the whole team team at once, so everyone understands how their part fits with the whole. You can then delegate each portion of the project.

c)They are open-ended. The answer cannot be yes or no.

They are short and simple. These types of question often have more impact. ...

They often speak to the other person's values or support the other person's exploration of themselves. ...

They allow for imagination and creativity. ...

They support the other person's expansion.

Answer:

A:If you think as a leader you can and should have all the answers, then you’re both wrong and significantly constraining the capacity of the organization to be creative.

B:From the quote "Our culture emphasizes that leaders must be wiser, set direction, and articulate values, all of which predisposes them to tell rather than ask", it shows us that the author really expressed it

C:They are open-ended. The answer cannot be yes or no.