From the course: Optimizing Human Performance on Your Team as a Manager
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Questions that empower
From the course: Optimizing Human Performance on Your Team as a Manager
Questions that empower
- Imagine being able to help people connect with their internal motivations quickly and powerfully in a way that drives them to act. I'm going to talk you through how to formulate questions in a way that encourages the owning of responsibilities, and help people feel good doing it. There are three really powerful questions you can use to help your colleagues in this way. Guiding people's attention helpfully is one of the most powerful and empowering things you can do. How does owning this project enable you to develop the skills that are important to you? This question is stacked full of presuppositions. It says that you're the owner of the project, to start with. This may be a step up for some people, so we're combining it with some positives to help the brain focus on the good things rather than the scary ones. It presumes that you will be developing particular skills. This has links with increased competence and potentially career progression. It even supposes that what you develop…
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