5 Magic Questions that can improve your success

In this chat, I share with you 5 magic questions that will help you to lift-up your thinking, simplify the complex, and help you and your teams to think more critically and strategically. Before we jump into the 5 magic questions, I'd ask you first to think about, why does your company pay you. The highest level answer is, so that you can help them to "protect and grow" the business. If that is indeed the case, how do you nest help your company to protect and grow the business. Well if everything is working perfectly, then there's not much to do. But chances are, if you are paid to help protect and grow the business, there are lots of things threatening the business or hampering growth. When you think about these things, these become the problems to solve. If these problems are big enough and relevant enough, if you solve them, you will in turn have helped to protect and grow the business. That said, what are then, 5 magic questions that can help you to lift-up your thinking, simplify the complex, and help you and your teams to think more critically and strategically. 1. What is preventing you from protecting and growing the business - what is the problem to solve? When answering that question, always define it by answering, What is the context (reality), who is involved, and what is the pain point. 2. What is the objective - your big idea to solve the problem, and... how do you know when you've achieved the objective (goal). 3. What is the plan to achieve the objective and by when, and, how do you know these are the right things to work on to achieve the objective. 4. Are you on track to do what you promised in your plan? 5. If not, what are you doing to get back on track and by when? When pitching your big ideas to key stakeholders talk about the: Why - Problem What - Objective and goal - your big idea How - The plan, are you on track, what you are doing to recover Asking yourself and your team these 5 magic questions will help you to lift-up your thinking, simplify the complex, and help you and your teams to think more critically and strategically.