In a recent post on John Cutler’s, Beautiful Mess blog, he wrote about Those Pesky Question-Askers.

It made me reflect on how I’ve handled questions of all sorts in my—

  • Own personal leadership journey,

  • While teaching my classes,

  • And while coaching my clients.

Even if I—

  • Don’t like or appreciate the question

  • Don’t want to answer it

  • Have answered it before and find it repetitive

  • Find it offensive or personally challenging

I rediscovered that how I answer questions sets the cultural landscape for my context. It impacts— 

  • Transparency

  • Safety

  • Ideation and creativity

  • Deep Democracy

  • Engagement

And as I reflect more, I’m now committing to being much more self-aware of how I engage question-askers.

Thank you, John!

Stay agile my friends,

Bob.

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