• What did I think I knew that turned out to be untrue?
• What did I think I understood until later discovering that my understanding was incomplete?
• What learning process do I seem to follow? Are any essential steps missing or poorly performed?
• What cues can tell me when I need to un-learn and re-learn?
• Do I explore special techniques to help me code and retain new material?
• Do I

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Subject: Learning Questions

Here are some needs and expectations one might have of a supervisor. Use the two columns below to say (a) how important each particular need is to you, and (b) how well the supervisor named below meets that particular need or expectation.

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Subject: Leadership Questions

So, do you have what it takes to be a speed leader? Does the candidate whose resume you’re holding have what it takes? Unfortunately, identifying such leaders is not an exact science, but here are a few things to look for:

Do you Thrive in Messiness?

• Do you have an insatiable curiosity?
• Do you love to experiment (in food, reading material, entertainment, travel)?
• Do you

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Subject: Leadership Questions

• What does great performance look like to your customers?
• What do you want to achieve in the next two or three years?
• How will you measure your performance?
• What must you learn in order to reach your goals?
• What work experience do you need to help you learn what you need to achieve your goals?

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Subject: Leadership Questions

• What are the few keys to success in your unit or business?
• What is your advantage in the marketplace?
• What would great performance for your unit, your business, and yourself in the coming year look like?
• What current or future developments will change the way you do business?
• What developments are impacting your unit’s activities and the company’s?
• What do you see coming in

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Subject: Leadership Questions

• How Focused am I? How much of my time do I spend communicating and inspiring people about our mission, vision and strategic goals? How much focus do I create in my organization? How married am I/my organization to methods that have outlived their usefulness?
• Am I viewed as Authentic? Do people see and hear the real me? Do I wear a mask at work,

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Subject: Leadership Questions

In advice to boards about hiring CEOs, Warren Bennis and James O’Toole recommend that a board should interview a candidate’s superiors, peers and direct reports with questions that will drive to the heart of the candidate. Here is a list of questions they recommend. How would your colleagues answer these questions about YOU?

• Does the candidate lead consistently in a way that inspires

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Subject: Leadership Questions

1. Which people and experiences in your early life had the greatest impact on you?
2. What tools do you use to become self-aware? What is your authentic self? What are the moments when you say to yourself, this is the real me?
3. What are your most deeply held values? Where did they come from? Have your values changed significantly since your childhood? How do your values inform your

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Subject: Leadership Questions

Gallup has been researching top-performing leaders for more than 40 years. One crucial discovery has been that top performance is strongly correlated to seven main leadership activities or “demands.”

1. Visioning
   The best leaders talk often about the future and how it will be better than the present. Their forward-looking approach engages and excites their audience and elicits commitment.
• Can you articulate the long-term direction

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Subject: Leadership Questions

1. Breadth vs. depth – should a practice address all knowledge elements at a high level, or capture one or two in depth?
2. Looking back versus going forward – should a practice capture its historical knowledge or start now and capture going forward?
3. Incremental vs. big bang – should a practice plan to address its knowledge needs in stages over time, or should it make a major,

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Subject: Knowledge Management Questions