Subject: Ask Better Questions To Get Better Results

Insights on Strategy and Top Team Renewal
June 2016
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Ask Better Questions For Better Results

Use these seven strategies to ask better, more meaningful questions in workplace discussions

Asking the right question is essential to getting a good answer… or so goes the assumption. Practice in the real world, however, is something quite different and often quite challenging.

Over the past week, I had two revealing conversations: one with a colleague, and one with a client. Both were having challenges with their bosses. And these weren’t just minor challenges – both colleague and client were considering some kind of exit (either transfer to another team or searching for a new opportunity in another company).

In the first situation, my client was seriously overworked and had been for some time. Each time she thought she was getting a handle on the work, new projects would appear on her desk, most of them generated from her boss’s office. When she approached her boss about this issue, he would listen intently and nod appropriately. At the end of her presentation, she would.......
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