Unlocking the Power of Great Questions
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What is one of the most powerful leadership tools?
I want to talk to you about one of the most powerful leadership tools that is strategic, impactful, deeply relational. Getting it right can transform your leadership. Getting it wrong is guaranteed to limit your leadership. Today, we're talking about one of the most underrated leadership skills.
How can asking the right questions transform leadership?
We're going to talk about how to ask better questions because the right question at the right time can change everything. Hey, welcome back to another episode of the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast, where our mission is to help you become a leader that people love to follow. If you're new to our leadership community, I want to welcome you. We drop a new episode on the first Thursday of every month. And so if you have not subscribed, let me encourage you to hit subscribe wherever you consume this content. And please, please, please, Make sure you're getting the leader guide. The leader guide is packed with valuable information, summaries, questions, information to help you grow in your leadership, to help you go over with your team.
Go to life.church slash leadership podcast, life.church slash leadership podcast. We'll send you the free leader guide with the release of every single episode. And hey, I love hearing from you. Those of you on YouTube or Spotify, wherever you can comment, comment anytime. If you have questions, ask them. And I would love to know where you're listening from or where you're watching from. Just type that in the comment sections. And then anytime you post on social media, it means the world to me. Tag me and my team may repost you. We want to work hard to invite others to be in our community. Let's dive into new content. Today, this is part one of a two-part leadership teaching, and we're talking about how to ask better questions. What do we know about most leaders?
Most leaders are obsessed with having the right answers, right? But we have to acknowledge that you'll never get the right answers without asking the right questions. What's interesting is that I'm really honored to have done leadership Q&As at different places around the world. And every time we do a Q&A, people ask some version of about the same 12 or 15 questions. I mean, over and over and over and over again, they're gonna ask, tell me about your schedule. How do you delegate? How do you stay mentally healthy? How do you develop a great culture? How do you increase the vision? How do you appropriately allocate resources? How do you stay motivated, scale up? How do you handle criticism? How do you deal with conflict?
How do you not grow crazy leading for years and years? And we get a version of those over and over and over again. In all my years of doing Q&As, I don't remember anyone ever asking, How do you ask better leadership questions? How do you ask questions to get really the deep and the best answers? And people should ask that because it's so, so, so important. And if you wonder, like, why should we focus on leadership questions, I'll tell you why. Because your leadership potential will never exceed the quality of the questions that you ask. If you want stronger relationships, better outcomes, and to make a bigger impact, ask better questions. The quality of the questions that you ask determine the quality of the information that you get.
In many ways, the potential impact of your leadership is based on the quality of the questions that you ask. So what we're going to do is we're going to get very, very practical. We're going to talk about the why, the how, and the what. In other words, like why. Why do you want to ask more questions? Like why do you want to shut your face and listen more than you talk? Because you need to do that instead of why. And then we're going to talk about how do you do it? Like how do you ask questions to get the most honest, helpful answers because different types of questions are going to create different types of answers. And then what specifically do you want to know?
Why is it important to ask better questions?
If you want to make a bigger difference and to grow in your leadership, what type of information do you want to know from your team to help you grow in your impact? So let's talk with the why. And this is relatively obvious, but why do you wanna ask questions? And we're gonna talk about three reasons. One is very, very obvious. Two, not as obvious to some leaders. Three reasons.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is one of the most powerful leadership tools?
0:00–0:18
2
How can asking the right questions transform leadership?
0:18–4:00
3
Why is it important to ask better questions?
4:00–13:04
4
What are the three reasons to ask questions in leadership?
13:04–14:59
5
How do questions help develop deeper relationships?
14:59
6
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect and how does it relate to leadership?
10:06–15:57
7
How can asking questions model humility and teachability?
15:57–27:15
8
What are the risks of asking questions as a leader?
27:15–29:53
Speakers
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