Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete Lekitis. Well, hello, I think you're going to have some fun with this next guest here who who frames things a little bit differently if you think oh I'm supposed to have all the answers because I'm in charge of this sort of a situation.

Dr. Michael Marquard because I'm in charge of this sort of a situation.

Dr Michael Marquard says that's not so much the case.

It's about having the right questions.

He has made a career out of studying questions and what makes them great and written all about them.

So you're going to learn, one, how to use questions to solve problems and build relationships,

two, what exactly makes a question great in the first place?

And 3. How to avoid disempowering questions.

So a bit about Mike here.

Dr. Michael Marquardt is a senior consultant with Aspire Consulting,

professor of Human Resource Development International Affairs,

and program director of overseas programs at George Washington University.

Mike also serves as president of the World Institute for Action Learning.

He's held a number of senior management training and marketing positions in major organizations.

Dr Markwart has trained more than 100,000 managers in nearly 150 countries.

He's consulted many major organizations such as Microsoft, the United Nations

Development Program, Samsung, Singapore Airlines, and the governments of

Indonesia,

Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Honduras, Swaziland,

and many others.

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