Ask More, Tell Less: How Leading with Questions Drives Engagement, Empowerment, and Execution
About This Guide
Drive leadership transformation by doing less telling and more asking. This practical guide reveals how asking the right questions at the right time fosters trust, boosts engagement, and drives real performance. Backed by insights from over 120,000 leaders and GCG’s proven Triple Win approach, this guide shows why leading with questions is one of today’s most powerful and underused leadership behaviors.
Learn how to shift from giving answers to unlocking insight, and turn everyday leadership moments into opportunities for growth and ownership.
Insights You’ll Gain:
The Strategic Power of Questions:
- Why asking questions is a leadership behavior, not a soft skill.
- How inquiry fuels the Triple Win: better leaders, better teams, better results.
- What GCG’s data reveals about the knowing–doing gap in leadership.
Coaching the Habit of Inquiry:
- Why leaders default to telling, and how to change it.
- What practical shifts turn questions into habits that stick.
- How to measure the impact of this behavior using coworker feedback.
Applying It in Real Life:
- Learn from the leadership example of Pixar’s Ed Catmull and how he built a creative culture through inquiry.
- Explore five tangible strategies to help leaders pause, ask, and engage more effectively, even under pressure.