Effective governance is not just a matter of meeting various legislation, rules, regulations and codes of practice. At the heart of a fully functioning, effective
board is the ability of the directors to
- communicate clearly and productively with each other and with the company's CEO and executive team
- create a board culture that elicits the best from the various talents of the directors and the executive team
- probe, challenge, clarify
- make well-informed decisions and create sound strategies.
An essential skill for directors of any company is to be able to ask the questions that make a difference.
Questions
- that elicit facts,
- reveal the truth,
- reveal thebeliefs and values that underlie assumptions,
- challengeassumptions,
- influence mindsets,
- uncover defects in proposals and strategies,
- overturn obfuscations,
- turn avoidance and resistance into responsibility,
- resolveconflict,
- improve strategies and solutions
- generate commitment, ownership and action.
In this 1 day masterclass, you will learn questions that highly effective business leaders ask - questions that make a significant difference to your business.
How will you know if a proposal is flawed? How do you indentify a time bomb lurking in a report? How do you get past self-serving 'spin' and elicit the facts and accountability?
In Powerful Questions you will learn to identify the language patterns that create traps and pitfalls (and financial loss) for the unsuspecting business leader, together with questioning strategies to deal with those patterns, including:
- how to probe, test, clarify, verify and elicit facts
- how to recognise when someone is avoiding a problem or hiding information
- how to ensure the best information and data is obtained from due diligence enquiries
- how to identify hidden motivators and agendas
- how to challenge assumptions, beliefs and opinions and identify facts and risk
- how to expose deficiencies in proposals, reports, process and strategy
- how to generate accountability and responsibility
- how to clarify meaning and intention of other people
- how to turn disagreements into a positive outcome.
Powerful Questions That Highly Effective Business Leaders Ask focuses on the business end of those questions and puts you in command of excellent leadership communication, influencing and decision-making capability at all times, on all issues.
The Powerful Questions help you to
- build a strong, effective Board, Executive and Management culture that elicits the best from the various talents of the company's leaders
- instil ethics, integrity, openness, honesty, personal responsibility, accountability and similar values at all levels and throughout the company
- communicate much more effectively with each other and throughout the company, in any situation.
You can use the Powerful Questions every day to
- Resolve conflict
- Negotiate more effectively
- Handle criticism
- Solve problems
- Turn resistance to change into ownership of change
- Cut meeting times in half and still have a better outcome
- Improve staff performance, engagement, commitment and accountability
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