294: Warren Berger - How To Ask More Beautiful Questions
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Ryan Hawk
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🗓️ 21 January 2019
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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Episode #294: Warren Berger - How To Ask More Beautiful Questions
- Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
- Intelligent... Smart
- Hard-working
- Ambitious
- Humble -- This is a really important quality. No ego or arrogance. They admit when they are wrong. Willing to acknowledge when they're wrong. They are open to listening to others and their ideas.
- Curiosity - They are not trapped by their own expertise. They are open minded, curious, looking around.
- Able to adapt
- Communication skill -- The willingness and ability to ask great questions
- The genesis of becoming a questionoligist -- Warrens calls himself a questionoligist. The art and science of asking questions.
- He originally was a journalist and developed a skill for asking questions doing that job.
- "Questioning was a tool of the trade"
- Warren was writing about design and the idea of questioning kept coming up with leaders in business.
- "The ability to ask good questions would lead them thru the innovation cycle."
- The holy trinity of questioning:
- Why? Trying to understand
- What if? Ideation, brainstorming
- How? Get practical. "How can we take the first step?"
- Big open ended questions -- They are the stems
- Each one does something completely different
- Questioning as a manager:
- Find time to have the conversations and ask questions of your team members
- Must be thoughtful and prepared
- We've gotten out of the habit of being questioners, and now it's always about doing. "Slow down, ask questions. Why are we pursuing this strategy? Understand why?"
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| 0:00.0 | I think they're people whose curiosity is so strong it overcomes those other |
| 0:06.7 | pressures. In other words there are people whose curiosity cannot be |
| 0:11.5 | tamped down because it is so strong and they don't care if they get |
| 0:16.2 | judged they want to know more than anything else that's more important to them |
| 0:20.5 | than being judged or any of these other factors, external factors that |
| 0:26.0 | we talked about. |
| 0:27.6 | And so those super curious people are the ones who continue to act like a child in terms of their questioning and their |
| 0:35.1 | curiosity and I think a lot of times they end up being really successful. |
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