Better Leaders Ask Better Questions. Lindsay Ph.D Tighe

to do. That said, I trust that sharing this awareness with you enables you to be prepared for letting go of this ‘ego fix’. I guarantee that your ego will feel very satisfied from the new practice I am going to share with you. Accordingly, at this stage please trust me that at the end of the day your ego will still be its normal, happy self, and maybe even more content than usual if you adopt this ‘asking’ approach.

      Thus, understanding how you’d like to go about performing your role and the values that you will uphold is the starting point to being a better leader who asks Better Questions. Once you have that clear in your mind, you must have the strength of your convictions to go into the world and be that person, which will include managing the perceptions and expectations of others. This will undoubtedly bring challenges along the way, but I believe that a better leader will have the resilience and resolve to work their way through these problem areas and be strong through adversity. After all, wanting to tap into people’s potential, valuing empowerment and engaging your team are fabulous attributes of a true Potentialiser, attributes that most organisations are crying out for.

CHAPTER SUMMARY

Typically we ‘tell’ because our staff and our manager expect us to. Being clear about our values and beliefs about how we want to fulfil our roles will enable us to manage expectations more easily. Our egos like the ‘telling’ approach because it gives us a sense of self-satisfaction, particularly if the ‘teller’ thinks they are being helpful. Letting go of the ‘telling’ approach may appear to be difficult at first because we might be restrained by our ego, but it will still be satisfied if we do more ‘asking’.