My personal mission: “Help Develop the Next Generation of Leaders for Cru.”
My target audience when developing the next generation of leaders for Cru is current staff members ages 20 to 30-something. While almost all of them speak English, most of them also speak “Social Media.” If you were moving to a foreign country where the major language spoken was something other than English you might consider it wise or even necessary to learn that language. My decision to learn to speak “Social Media” (Blogging – Twitter – LinkedIn – Facebook – Google +) allows me to better connect with my target audience. As I delved deeper into this process, I realized that through my blog, I could not only help leaders in my target audience, but I could serve leaders around the globe!
I quickly decided that I did not want to do just another Leadership Blog. There are scores of excellent Leadership Blogs. So I asked this question, “Was there a specific leadership niche I might want to choose?” With that question, I instantly had the answer. I had discovered Dr. Michael Marquardt’s book “Leading with Questions” in 2006. His book forever changed my leadership focus from Telling to Asking! I began to do presentations and seminars from his book which immediately created change in the leaders with whom I was connecting. A quick Google search found no other blogs focused on this niche. Another quick search of available website names discovered that LeadingWithQuestions.Com was available – so I grabbed it.
I soon faced a huge challenge!
My first post was on March 15, 2012. Posting twice a week, I was out of content in eight weeks! In 16 posts, I had already shared everything I knew about “Leading with Questions.” What was I going to do? Pull the plug? While mulling this over a wild idea struck me. Why not ask other bloggers who had written posts related to my theme of “Leading with Questions” for their permission to repost their post as a “Guest Post” on my blog – of course with full attribution to them. So I quickly sent off four emails to bloggers who had already posted terrific “Leading with Questions” type posts on their blog – wondering if they would respond. I didn’t have to wait long. Within 24 hours I had heard back from all four – each of them granting me permission. What I did not know then, that I know now is that all bloggers write to be read! And when someone offers a blogger an opportunity for what they have written to be read by another audience, it is almost always an irresistible offer. To date 166 different “Guest Post Authors” have shared their wisdom on LeadingWithQuestions.Com.
Soon thereafter, I emailed Dr. Michael Marquardt thanking him for writing “Leading with Questions,” sharing how his book had changed my leadership, telling him about my blog and asking his permission to excerpt from his book. To my delight, he almost instantly responded expressing his gratitude and giving me “carte blanche” permission to excerpt from his book. My e-mail to Dr. Marquardt was quickly followed with e-mails to other authors whose books also related to my theme of “Leading with Questions.” Like bloggers, almost all immediately responded, graciously granting their permission as well! To date, excerpts from 23 different books have been shared on LeadingWithQuestions.Com.
Curator of “Leading with Questions” Content
Today I am only occasionally an originator of “Leading with Questions” content. LeadingWithQuestions.com has really become a “curator” of “Leading with Questions” content.
You and I are both are the beneficiaries! Twice a week, you are hearing from some of the greatest leaders on the globe – sharing their very best thinking on how you can sharpen your “Leading with Questions” skills.
1. What do you need to: Start – Stop – Continue?
2. My Gift for You: A Free E-Book
3. Seven Meaningful Questions to Gauge Employee Happiness
4. Ten Questions to Ask Your Dad on Father’s Day
5. Fifty Great Coaching Questions
Josh McDowell
Bestselling author of “More Than A Carpenter” & “New Evidence That Demands A Verdict”
Dr. Michael Marquardt
Author of “Leading With Questions” and President of World Institute for Action Learning
Dr. K. Shelette Stewart
Author of Revelations in Business; Associate Director of Business Dev. SMU Cox School of Business
Julie Winkle Giulioni
Author of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go”
Mark Gauthier
U.S. National Campus Director, Cru
Bob Beaudine
CEO, Eastman & Beaudine; Best-Selling Author, “The Power of WHO!”
Eric Hood
Willow Creek Association and Global Leadership Summit Team
Ken Cochrum
VP, Global Digital Strategies, Cru; Author of “Close: Leading Well Across Distance and Culture”
Brent Garrison
Vice President of Education, CEO Forum
Lamarr Lark, Sr.
Founding Partner, WPM Partners, LLC.
Jenni Catron
Church Leader and author of “CLOUT: Discover and Unleash Your God-Given Influence”
Dr. Dennis Rainey
Host, Family Life Today
Cheryl Bachelder
CEO, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
Warren Berger
Author of “A More Beautiful Question”
DongWhan Kim
Executive National Director, KCCC USA
Dr. Ramesh Richard
President of RReach & Professor at Dallas Theological Seminary
Jill Geisler
Author of “Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know”
Andrea Buczynski
VP, Global Leadership Development/HR, Cru
Craig Domeck
Dean and Assistant Professor of Leadership, MacArthur School of Leadership, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Steve Douglass
President, Cru
Bobb Biehl
Executive Mentor
Mark Householder
President, Athletes in Action
Pam Smith
VP for Student Advancement, Biblical Seminary
Bob Tiede is a great leader as well as a highly effective coach, who is committed to increasing the leadership understanding and effectiveness of others. His unique contributions on leading with questions is an incredible resource for those who want to lead through the empowerment of others.
Delanyo Adadevoh
PhD President-International Leadership Foundation
Terrence Donahue
Corporate Director of Learning, Emerson Electric, Inc.
Bev Kaye
Founder, Career Systems International
Scott Sonju
President, Frisco RoughRiders
Marc Rutter
US National Director, Leadership Development and HR, Cru
We can all agree that leading with questions is more inspiring and productive, but why do we slip and drop back to directives rather than questions? LeadingWithQuestions.com is a great refresher and tutoring resource we can use to remember the power of questions.
James C. Wetherbe
PhD Stevenson Chaired Professor of MIS, Director Institute for Internet Buyer Behavior Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University
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