Questions to Consider

We have, indeed, an unbounded imagination and initiative for solving technical problems, but a most restricted imagination when we deal with human problems. Why is this so?

Erich Fromm

• What are the key challenges facing your business and your teams?
• How do people from various roles, functions, or levels of the hierarchy see the problems differently?
• What are the dominant patterns of discourse in the group and what impact do they have on collaboration and performance?
• Do the current patterns help people fully contribute their knowledge, skills and experience to your core challenges?
• On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the caliber of team and inter-team interaction?
• And when it comes to teamwork and leadership, what price will you pay for merely maintaining the status quo?
• In order to build a more responsibly robust organization, what patterns need to be encouraged, and what patterns need to be replaced?
• How do you create new ways of working together that are more vigorous, open, honest, and productive?
• How do you get everyone in the organization to take a more active responsibility for the quality of the discourse in your team or organization?

If you don’t find intentional answers to these important questions, unintentional answers will certainly find you.