Leadership today demands better questions rather than answers to navigate through its complex environment. Reflective questions provide the needed pause which enables clearer vision and deeper feeling while promoting wiser action. Reflective questions serve as discreet partners to self-aware leadership by helping us discover the underlying truth of decisions and relationships while mapping our objectives.

Reflective questions represent a strategic necessity within Leadership3 rather than just a soft skill. Reflective questions enable us to uncover hidden values while exposing underlying assumptions and highlighting unnoticed blind spots. Most importantly, they reconnect leaders with purpose.

In this reflection, consider:

• • You instinctively know the questions that you want to ask, but take some time out and think about questions that you have not asked.  Put yourself in the other persons mindset; what do you think that they would be asking?

• • What questions warrant both extended periods of silence and courageous exploration?

• Better questions have the power to shape improved futures.