5 Questions Leaders Should Be Asking All the Time

Any answer is only as good as the question asked. Yet it’s not always easy asking good questions. It requires us to look beyond simple solutions and to encourage colleagues to do the same. It requires courage and tact, to generate hard questions without sparking defensiveness, as well as being open to new ideas and to questioning untested assumptions. It requires being willing to listen and follow up. There are a handful of essential questions that are useful across a variety of contexts, especially in the workplace: “Wait, what?”, “I wonder why…” (or, “I wonder if…”), “Couldn’t we at least…”, “How can I help?”, and “What truly matters?”