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3 Powerful Questions You Must Answer for Your Team or Watch Them Disengage
Most leaders never genuinely understand their team, causing irreversible disengagement.
Nor do they ever explain why the company executes in a certain way, causing confusion, assumptions, and, you guessed it, more disengagement. So, how do you bridge the gap, you ask?
It all comes down to three crucial questions:
North Star Why: The Big Objective Question
I stumbled in the dark for years when I started leading Skylink until I found my North Star: “Why are we doing this?”
In the constant shuffle of the daily whirlwind, it’s easy to forget the core objective. Why were we so focused on being hyper-responsive to enterprise accounts? Because that was our North Star, making it ridiculously easy to do business with us, our company’s Big Objective.
If your team doesn’t know the bigger why, they’ll be completely disconnected from what matters, and if they don’t buy into the objective, they’ll be disengaged.
Alignment Why: The Clarity Questions
Now there’s connecting the daily grind to the bigger picture.