Category: Questions
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3 Rules of Great Questions
Most people don’t ask good questions. I’ve been leading Vistage in Spain for the last 5 years. We coach CEOs to increase their effectiveness and improve their quality of life. We do this with questions. I’ve spent these last 5 years paying attention to how people use questions. I recently came across a thread on…
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How to Take Better Business Decisions: 50 Great Questions for Critical Thinking
A leader should be interested in developing 2 competencies in the people within their organisation: Good Decision Making (to take good choices about how to use the resources of the organisation to achieve strategic plans) Influencing Skills (because if they cannot influence their peers, people will have to involve you every time…) If your team…
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Communication requires 2 people
Communication happens in the recipient. If there is no recipient, it is not communication. It is called noise, or as the Irish say: “shouting at the storm”. Communication can only begin when you understand what the recipient wants, what their goals are, what is missing in their current way of life. If you don’t know…
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15 Questions To Ask Your Kids To Help Them Have Good Mindsets
David William wrote this post at Lifehack, but I find that I have gone back a couple of times now to find these questions. I was on a bike ride along Tibidabo mountain last night with my daughter (8) and I asked her a couple of these questions. I get some profound answers. Jim Collins…
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#InspiringMondays: 3 Questions for the Week
#InspiringMondays My entrepreneurial friend David Tomas has a mission. He calls it #InspiringMondays. His mission is to build a company culture that has people as excited arriving to work on a Monday morning, as most people generally feel when they about to leave work on a Friday afternoon. On this (potentially) inspiring Monday, I have…