Questions For Newly Promoted Leaders

Please consider this question carefully. Asking it means that you take leadership seriously, and it would be dishonest to ask if you neither have the resources nor the intentions to provide the support you’re asking about. But, even if you don’t have a formal program for new leaders, you can still support their efforts. You [...]

Why would you ask this question? Why do you ask any question? Questions are asked in order to learn. This question goes to the heart of the philosophy that believes that people aren’t born to be great leaders; they’re great leaders because they’ve learned to lead. (A note of caution for this and the next [...]

I used to do customer service training until I started viewing poor service as a bonus event that would provide me with more material, a greater sense of job security, and a reason to celebrate. That’s a perverse worldview, so I changed the focus of my work. There was an exercise I did in those [...]

Asking a question that requires self-evaluation is valuable for both the asker and the answerer. The answerer gets the immediate challenge of doing the self-evaluation and the reward of the insights they gain. This question will provide you, the asker, with information on how promotions are viewed within your organization. The reasons individuals ascribe to [...]