Comments on: Agenda questions help the team stay on track http://lyssaadkins.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/agenda-questions-help-the-team-stay-on-track/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:07:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: lyssaadkins http://lyssaadkins.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/agenda-questions-help-the-team-stay-on-track/#comment-123 lyssaadkins Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:10:05 +0000 http://lyssaadkins.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-123 Peter - I love your approach to detecting whether the deviation is really a deviation or just the right place for the team to go, in the moment, in service of their goals. You have hit the nail on the head - powerful questions. This is a good technique to use when shining light on what looks to be a deviation. See my earlier post on Powerful Questions (April 2008) for more on this. As you imagined, an advanced move one can use is "calling the team forth" (another co-achive coaching technique). This is when you intuit the team is skirting the real problem. Thanks for adding your wisdom to this post. And thanks for the compliments. Peter -
I love your approach to detecting whether the deviation is really a deviation or just the right place for the team to go, in the moment, in service of their goals. You have hit the nail on the head – powerful questions. This is a good technique to use when shining light on what looks to be a deviation. See my earlier post on Powerful Questions (April 2008) for more on this.

As you imagined, an advanced move one can use is “calling the team forth” (another co-achive coaching technique). This is when you intuit the team is skirting the real problem.

Thanks for adding your wisdom to this post. And thanks for the compliments.

]]> By: Peter http://lyssaadkins.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/agenda-questions-help-the-team-stay-on-track/#comment-122 Peter Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:55:49 +0000 http://lyssaadkins.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-122 Lyssa, No doubt that this technique could be very powerful. I haven't tried it yet, but will do that. But do you need it to tackle the problem you raised: how to be sure if the team is deviating or not? And also your second question: is this "deviation" a deviation? I am personally always reluctant when trying to resolve such hard questions with simple techniques. Aren't we working around the real problem we really face? Have you considered to ask at such moment (not necessarily referring to the agenda): "What question are we trying to answer now?" In a second stage, and if still needed, you may then ask secondary questions like "How does this relate to the core problem we want to solve?" or/and "Is this a priority question now?" PS I love your contributions - mainly your YouTube is really great. Hope to meet one day! Lyssa,

No doubt that this technique could be very powerful. I haven’t tried it yet, but will do that.

But do you need it to tackle the problem you raised: how to be sure if the team is deviating or not? And also your second question: is this “deviation” a deviation? I am personally always reluctant when trying to resolve such hard questions with simple techniques. Aren’t we working around the real problem we really face?

Have you considered to ask at such moment (not necessarily referring to the agenda): “What question are we trying to answer now?” In a second stage, and if still needed, you may then ask secondary questions like “How does this relate to the core problem we want to solve?” or/and “Is this a priority question now?”

PS I love your contributions – mainly your YouTube is really great. Hope to meet one day!

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