The six most powerful questions great leaders ask their people…

During my career in management and consulting I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to work with numerous entrepreneurs and managers.

Whilst there were many things that were different, there were some commonalities - especially amongst the successful ones.

From my 20 years experience, here are the six most powerful questions great leaders asked of their people:

1. What’s our aspirational Plan A and our bullet-proof Plan B?

One of the most successful entrepreneurs I know had a habit of asking two questions: All things being equal, what would be our most courageous and aspirational goal? It was always accompanied with: what is our back-up plan if we didn’t quite make it. Once the risk was sufficiently contained with an alternative, he would encourage the organisation to aim for the seemingly impossible.🎯

2. What would you do differently around here? How can we improve?

A question, particularly pertinent to new staff about week or fortnight after they’ve joined the organisation is to ask the…