240 words … short and sweet
I came across some notes this week in an old journal that had this quote from Jonas Salk, American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.
“Find the right questions. You don’t invent the answers, you ‘reveal’ the answers.”
Another entry in that journal included the following quote passed on to me by a former Leadership Network colleague, Carol Childress.
“You don’t have to have all the answers, but you do need to ask the right questions.”
It seems that asking good questions may be the essential skill of leading change.
In a season of needing new answers, perhaps we need to be asking new questions.
Following are a baker’s dozen of questions that when asked may reveal new answers for you and your church:
What do we want?
What does the ideal look like?
Why do we look at things this way?
Are we questioning our assumptions, the routine way of doing things?
How can we have the most fun exploring the possible solutions?
What would happen if …?
What is the ideal final result from the “customer’s” perspective?
What is the stupidest way we could do this?
What if we did it exactly the opposite way that we are doing it now?
How can we combine existing elements in new ways?
What ideas can we borrow?
How can we test the ideas?
Is the idea unique?
What questions are you asking and finding helpful?
If you are asking questions about what’s next for your church or for yourself as a leader, I can help.
Multisite Reimagined™ is my proprietary process to help your team think creatively about what’s next for your multisite ministry.
Not multisite? Not a problem, I use a similar process called Storycrafting, developed by colleague Dave Travis, that will help you define the next chapter of your story.
To schedule a call to talk about it, just go here.
Email me your innovation experiments and stories at greg.ligon@generis.com.