You want your questions to be kind of innocent and kind of curious like this.

I'll give you a suggestion.

You'll say, hey, yeah, I may be the new person here,

and I know I'm less experienced than everybody else.

So please forgive me if I'm being naive, but can I ask?

And so you're setting the tone like that, you're curious, you're not coming in with an arrogant

attitude, and then you want to ask some version of these three questions.

Hey, it's great to be back for another episode of the Craig Groshell Leadership

Podcast.

I want to say sincerely, I am thankful for you.

It's an amazing thing to have you in our leadership community

and I have a real passion.

I feel like it's a calling to help you get better in your leadership and so what I want to do is I want to talk about what you want to talk about.

What we're going to do is we're going to do a multiple week series where I'm answering your questions.

We ask for questions and man you guys ask a bunch of them.

Normally we do an episode on the first Thursday of each month

with an occasional bonus episode.

Hey, we're going one a week for as long as it takes to work through many of your questions.

So our team looked at all the questions and we saw some common themes.

I'll tell you what we'll be talking about in the weeks to come.

A lot of you are asking about how do you lead up when you're not in charge?

You talked about lateral leadership questions, how do you lead your peers?

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