Think your team is 100% aligned behind your initiative, only to later hear the talk of dissent or note that no progress is being made? Are you mistaking a “yes” spoken in a meeting for commitment? What’s the better question that could be asked to ensure you are not simply the receiver of the polite yes in a critical conversation?
I have a passion for how people use words and the process by which they make meaning from those words. Why the interest? Because words matter. The choice of one poor word can quickly send a meeting down an unproductive …
A few weeks ago, I posted about one of the three most worthless questions to ask in a meeting: “Does anyone have any questions?” Today I look at the second of those questions: “Does everyone understand this?” Such questions waste …
What are the 3 most useless questions in a meeting?
Learn small tips that make large differences in getting the input you seek as a facilitator or leader.
Conversational greeting rituals help us connect with people every day. Take it a step deeper and see how conversational analysis can help you gain insight by listening below the words.
Brainwriting is a powerful tool that mitigates a group’s tendency to repeat what others have stated (known as groupthink) and lessens the negative effects of certain cognitive and motivational biases that can be detrimental to team effectiveness and decision quality.
Drawing on the workshop leader’s extensive experience and research in the practice of asking better question, diagnosing people systems. and the neuroscience of making better decisions, this one-of-a-kind and highly praised workshop delves into the key areas and competencies essential for making better choices. Join this hands-on and engaging workshop–designed and led by a teacher with more than 30 years of experience in assisting teams across different industries–to learn how to leverage the potential of your team’s thinking and achieve better results.
What makes questions effective? How can you employ improved questions to a) more fully engage your team’s thinking, b) explore complex scenarios, c) challenge restrictive beliefs, and d) encourage innovation? The ability to pose better questions is frequently highlighted as an essential leadership skill, yet it’s seldom taught. This distinctive one-day workshop, derived from the instructor’s twenty years of experience and research in questioning techniques and the effects on the brain, will enhance your proficiency and capacity to effectively communicate in the language of questions.
This workshop teaches leaders and facilitators of decision boards how to design and foster balanced discussions that answer the questions critical to making quality decisions. LIVE WEBINAR (4 hours)
Learn why Brainstorming has minimal success in helping us break out of our boxes and how using question-storming assists in uncovering the underlying assumptions that keep us locked into the old way of doing things.
