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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

385: Unlocking New Ideas by Asking Better Questions with Hal Gregersen

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Hal Gregersen explores methods for asking better questions to address your biggest challenges.   You'll Learn: How to ask better questions The four-minute Question Burst method to spark new ideas How the most creative organizations use questions wisely   About Hal: Hal Gregersen is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep385 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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.

0:10.0

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

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:17.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 385 of Hal Gregerson.

0:23.1

I am excited to share this conversation with Hal with you because it is so powerful in terms of

0:29.6

what it can do to unlock answers to the things you don't know that you don't know.

0:34.5

So you'll learn one how to ask better questions.

0:36.8

Two, the four minute question verse method to spark new ideas and three, how the most

0:41.7

creative organizations use questions wisely.

0:44.3

So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to

0:47.0

Adams we've referenced you'll find that on over at awesome at your job

0:49.7

dot com slash F385. Now here's Hal's story. Hal Gregerson is the executive director of the MIT Leadership

0:56.4

Center and a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management

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where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and

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research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative

1:08.8

new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas and deliver positive powerful results.

1:16.0

So thanks to Hal for talking to us and thanks to our sponsors. Check them out.

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Here is Hal. HAL.

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HAL, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

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Thanks, Pete.

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Wonder we'll be with you today.

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I'm so excited to dig into this good stuff. thanks Janica a listener for connecting us that's

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