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126: Asking Powerful Questions with Suzan Bond
01:04 - Suzan’s Superpower: Asking Powerful Questions
07:30 - Blending Technology and Coaching
10:32 - Blending Technology and Humans; Working Distributed/Remotely
15:32 - Creating Organizational Divides (Intentional and Unintentional)
20:24 - Company Cultures That Lend Themselves Well to Remote Work
Theory X and Theory Y (Douglas McGregor)
25:19 - Autocratic vs Autonomy
26:23 - Becoming a Coach and Learning Coaching Skills
30:46 - Listening to Yourself and Intuition
“Good decisions get better; bad decisions get worse.”
33:28 - Management vs Leadership / Developing Leadership Skills: Deliberation and Introspection
Reflections:
Coraline: Powerful questions. Coaching by asking powerful questions.
Suzan: The word “autonomy”.
John: Asking questions to illicit insight, movement, and motivation.
Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter by Will Wise
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Special Guest: Suzan Bond.