Asking Great Questions at Work

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast’, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about how to ask great questions at work. Sheila gives her insights on what a great question can do, and how you might benefit from asking one. She also discusses the underlying reasons keeping you away from asking the questions that would help you to make progress.

Episode Highlights: 

• A great question is the ultimate and fastest path to an answer or cool discovery, mentions Sheila.
• Maintaining connections to a community or a purpose is a hot topic. Asking questions can be a simple way to keep connection right there at the forefront.
• Sometimes it's not that you don't know something or can't figure it out. It's just that you've been spinning on it for a while and you need to break that cycle.
• Asking questions to allow someone else to showcase their thinking or their willingness to think out loud can be an incredible gift as it can help them to grow and demonstrate their capability as a leader and someone or following.

3 Key Points:

1. Sheila mentions that when you ask questions strategically, it has the power to connect, expand ideas, and develop your capabilities.
2. Asking a question can showcase your idea, but also invite people to weigh in. You are not just asking for approval instead, you're genuinely seeking input and their ideas. 
3. Asking questions can challenge or develop someone else, so there's this thing that Sheila does, sometimes when she is facilitating a meeting she will pose a question to someone specific. Not because she doesn’t know the answer, but because she sees an opportunity to shine a spotlight on them.

 Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast