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Information isn’t the gap between failure and success—action is. Path for Growth’s 1-on-1 coaching helps you create a plan and execute on what matters most for your business. Apply today at pathforgrowth.com/coaching.


A great leader asks great questions because a leader's effectiveness is based on their questions, not their answers. The quality of your conversation reflects the quality of your questions.

Communication is a skill, not an identity. It’s not something you are born with; it is a discipline, something you practice and learn through repetition. But before you can be great at communication have to learn three things:

  1. Confidence, in the process of practice, confidence is gained. 
  2. Humility, if you aren’t humble, you can’t ask good questions. Everyone around you knows something that you don’t. 
  3. Trust, they need to trust that you care about them. You need to trust that they will respect your time with attention. 


    Five types of questions for leaders:

    Tactical Questions: Day-to-day questions that provide an incremental return. 

    • Never use a person to do the job Google was built for. 

    Strategic Questions: Look at the big picture

    • “In light of where I want to go, what is the best next step?
    • Strategic questions demand vision.
    • Perspective Questions: Acknowledge our emotional and situational enmeshment.

      • We need to make decisions rationally and logically, so we need someone who is not emotionally invested in the present situation.
      • We need to see our leadership from every angle on the table, so we need to ask perspective questions. 
      • Expansionary Questions: Dare to envision a future that doesn't yet exist.

        • Think about a future beyond your comfort zone.
        • Expansionary questions are the enemy of complacency
        • Principle-Based Questions: Rely on transcendent truth and focus on making that principle remarkably practical.

          • Observe a principle and then make it practical.
          • Sit down with people you trust, state a principle and ask, "how do you see that plays out for us"?

          • Our whole team is rooting for you. We want to see you win! 

            Remember, my strength is not for me; your strength is not for you; our strength is for service.


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