According to an executive coach, certain questions for leaders can improve all the relationships in your life.
And in almost every instance, Ive found that asking is better than telling.
This lesson applies to my personal life, too.
4 executive coaching questions that stand to improve all of your relationships
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How can I be most helpful right now?
As friends, partners, parents, co-workers, its a natural instinct to want to be helpful.
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What aspect of the problem is challenging you?
But that belief is often squarely wrong.
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As someone with moreintroverted tendencies, thats howIwould feelbut thats me.
She let me know she actually feels more energized as a result of meeting up with friends.
This is what Im hearing: [playback].
Sometimes theyll correct you, which is good!
This means theyre able to add nuance or clear up confusion.
Sometimes youll get it right on the first try, and that feels good, too.
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Short and sweet, What else?
is a brilliant question to ask, because it invites someone to move beyond their comfort zone.
If youre brainstorming anything and ask What else?
you force the person to push beyond their first (and most obvious) ideas.
This approach also works if youre arguing.
If you genuinely and kindly ask the other person, What else do you want to verify I hear?
then theyreallyhave to put it all out on the table.
Generally speaking, if youre looking for more depth in any relationship in your life, What else?
is a valuable question to use because it pushes people to dig deeper.
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