Ask Your Team These 5 Strategic Questions

by Lisa Lai for Harvard Business Review

For more strategic output, pose these five questions to your team members on a regular basis:

1. What are you doing today? This will bring to light any significant work that you aren’t aware is being done or that’s taking much more time than it should.

2. Why are you doing the work you’re doing? This allows you to gain clarity on what’s important and why it’s important from your team’s perspective.

3. How does what we’re doing today align with the bigger picture? This is a discussion about gaps and outliers. If your team is working on something that doesn’t align with the broader goals of the organization, challenge the value of doing that work.Read More →