Revealed: Why the Questions You Ask Every Day Are Keeping Your Team Quiet
How to Get Your Team Telling You What's Really Going On, Without Interrogating Them or Waiting for It to Blow Up
Learn the questions that get real answers and how to respond so people keep talking.
(No interrogation required.)
Here’s what you’ll discover:
✅ Why "How's it going?" gets "fine", and the questions that get the real story instead.
✅ How a question with no context creates a vacuum, and the one sentence that stops it from feeling like a test.
✅ Why "Why did you…?" makes people defend themselves, and what to ask instead.
✅ What to do in the moment the answer is hard to hear, so people keep telling you the truth next time.
✅ How to talk with the team member who seems "too sensitive", without tiptoeing around them.
You ask, "Any questions?" Silence. You ask how it's going. "Fine." Then you hear from someone else that your team has been unhappy for weeks. They have plenty to say, but your questions feel like a test, so they play it safe, and the problem smoulders until it lands on your desk. Learn how to get people talking while it's still small.
Wednesday, 2 December | 12 noon NZ Time | 50 minutes, live
Wednesday, 2 December | 12 noon NZ Time | 50 minutes, live
Bring the question you've been afraid to ask your team. Leave with better ones and a free handout of 12 questions that build trust and get your team talking.