Yes Or No Questions (YONKERS)

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Careers, Feedback, Leadership, Business, How-to, Development, Strategy, Management, Skills, Coaching, Advice

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

You're going to get asked yes or no questions, and there are only three effective answers. Anything else is unprofessional, and what might be interpreted as weak. There's a difference between asked, "How's the project" - Inevitably, "fine;" and, "Are you 100% green this week?' Better questions get better answers. And when a professional gets a better question, a better answer is the best answer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools.
0:02.0	Today's cast, yes or no questions, yonkers.
0:07.0	The questions this cast answers are,
0:09.0	How do I answer yes or no questions?
0:11.0	Is it okay to say I don't know to a yes or no question?
0:15.7	And can I avoid answering a question directly?
0:19.3	If you'd like answers to these questions and more,
0:21.7	keep listening. to all of our European clients. We will be in theatre the week of
0:28.7	February 19th in Frankfurt with our public conference and this is the
0:32.4	opportune time to coordinate your client organization with our public conference and this is the opportunity
0:33.0	to coordinate your client organizational training needs
0:35.6	since most of the travel costs will get absorbed by the public conference.
0:39.2	In other words you'll save a bunch of money. So contact Maggie. Her email address is Maggie at manager
0:47.0	dash tools.com to discuss how we can come on site and deliver the effective manager, effective communicator, or effective hiring manager to your team.
0:56.0	We can take up to 30 people at a time and it's far more cost effective for us to come directly to you.
1:02.0	So send us an email and we'll come visit you
1:05.2	while we're in Europe. Today we're here to chat because I think that this
1:11.8	situation may have happened to individuals who are listening.
1:15.0	It may have happened when you were an individual contributor, if you worked for a smart boss,
1:21.0	maybe it didn't happen to you because your boss didn't know how to drill down to get into specifics of issues and problems.
1:28.0	And if it hasn't happened to you yet, then it will definitely happen to you
1:35.0	as a manager.
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