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The 9 Great Questions Real Leaders Often Ask
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| Guest post by: Ian Berry |
Article Overview: Real Leadership boils down to 5 actions: Questioning, Visioning, Engaging, Inspiring and Mentoring. For optimum performance to occur these must be balanced with 5 Real Management actions: Focusing, Systemizing, Following, Measuring and Coaching
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The 9 Great Questions Real Leaders Often Ask
© Ian Berry. All rights reserved
Leadership in my view is the art of inspiring people to bring everything they are to everything they do. Leadership falters without management however. Management is the science of making it easy for people to bring everything they are to everything they do.
Leadership and Management are everybody's business. Leadership and Management are not about title or position; rather they are about who we are and what we do.
One real Leadership action is questioning. Real Leaders are continually asking great questions. As a general rule these great questions centre around self esteem building and performance.
Low self esteem is in my opinion at the heart of world's greatest problems. Real Leaders ask other people the following questions about a myriad of issues:
How do you feel about ..........? What do you think about ..........?
After carefully listening to other people's responses to these questions, (which means not saying anything while others are speaking) Real Leaders then ask
To negative responses, What would need to happen for you to feel differently about ..........? or What would need to happen for you to think differently about ..........?
To positive responses, How do you intend to continue feeling ..........? or How do you intend to continue thinking ..........?
Fake leaders are seldom interested in what others feel and think and are more interested in how they feel and think. Real Leaders put others first. Fake leaders put themselves first. Fake leaders rarely ask questions preferring to make statements that attempt to make themselves look good or put others in an inferior position.
Other great questions Real Leaders ask are about performance particularly when performance has not met agreed expectations.
Real Leaders ask What happened ..........? and wait for a response. Real Leaders then ask What do you need to do to ensure this doesn't happen again? and wait for a response. Real Leaders then ask Is there anything I can do to help? and wait for a response. Real Leaders then ask Anything else? and wait for a response.
The above great questions assume there is already agreement around goals and the actions to achieve them. After all disagreement or misunderstandings around these are the biggest causes of human conflict.
Real Leaders generally help people document the actions that come from responses to the above questions and thereby create agreements which act as a great reference point for discussion about performance going forward.
Fake leaders ares seldom interested in what happened and are more concerned with who did it. Fake leaders play the shame and blame game whereas Real Leaders are prmarily interested in people being the best they can be.
Be the difference you want to see in the world.
Ian
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About the Author: Ian Berry RSS for Ian's articles - Visit Ian's website Since 1991 I have partnered with passionate and enlightened leaders in changing what's normal for the good of yourself, other people, our planet, and for profit. My specialisations are:
A sparkenation is a word I created to denote: a spark that ignites passion that leads to action that changes what’s normal. You can check out my books outline, download 3 sparkenations with my compliments, or purchase here. Click here to visit Ian's website The Leadership of Giving Beyond Belief Letting go of our rule books We have all the time in the world Innovation the successful implementation of an idea |
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