This is an episode in the Believe Show. Dan believes that people spend too much time focused on problem solving and not enough time understanding the problem. Premature solutions often miss the point. The 4 steps he suggest are: 1. Go and see 2. Properly frame your problem 3. Think backwards, perhaps using a fishbone diagram 4. Ask why. To read the LinkedIn article based on this video, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-avoid-conclusion-trap-dan-markovitz-senia-maymin/ Dan Markovitz is the author of The Conclusion Trap: https://amzn.to/3s9iUpu For more videos in this series, check out the Tools menu at https://mycoach.zone

How do I focus on the big picture when there are so many things that need to be done? * Consider pitfalls. * Ask questions: Who can help? What? Why (the magnet)? When (is your energy the best)? Where? For more videos in this series, visit https://mycoach.zone

I believe that moving forward starts with questions. One powerful question is "What is your coaching [business, leadership, parenting] superpower?'" This question can focus you now and keep reverberating in your head. View Senia's bio at https://svchange.com/Senia Watch other videos in this series at https://mycoach.zone/workremote

Alex Goldfayn just launched his new book, 5-Minute Selling – https://amzn.to/35aPT4Q Intro (00:00) Alex's counter-intuitive belief (01:07) Making a Believer (02:50) Doing the Book: 1) Did-you-know question (13:31) 2) Reverse did-you-know question (13:48) 3) How do you ask for a referral (14:25) 4) The percentage of business question (16:04) 5) Handwritten notes (17:40) 6) What about voicemail? (19:58) For the LinkedIn article based on this video, visit https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-minute-selling-alex-goldfayn-senia-maymin/ For more of these webinars, visit https://mycoach.zone/workremote

How to ask more effective questions, testing our own conclusions. Orange cards in the "What if it were easy?" deck created by Silicon Valley Change coaches – What is the problem you want to solve? (2:35) – How might you look at this differently? (2:55) – What would your knee jerk reaction be? (3:30) – How could you be wrong? (4:27) – What are you avoiding? (5:32) These are all ways of looking at a problem from a different angle. This deck of cards can be ordered from Silicon Valley Change. For more videos in this series, see https://mycoach.zone/workremote

Plan your career so that it is more like a runway than a rollercoaster: How do I do more of what I want to do and less of what I don't want to do? Go beyond geography, industry, role. Each question is important now and in the future: * What? Tom Rath's book: Life's Great Question – https://amzn.to/35SnnFj * Whom? Whom would you like to work with? Lumpers or Slicers? * How? Remotely? In groups or by self? For more videos in this series, check out https://mycoach.zone/workremote

Three things that are important, two tools each: 1. Things about the manager: * What do you most need? (0:48) * What are our big rocks? (1:50) 2. Things about me and the manager: * Roles and goals (3:21) * High/low/trenches/needs (4:34) 3. Moving forward in my career (5:33) * Next steps (6:30) * Experiments I'm running (8:05) For more videos in this series, visit https://mycoach.zone/workremote

Questions come from the Silicon Valley Change card deck, What if it were easy? *What do you most want to figure out today? (1:45) * What is the problem you want to solve? (2:13) * What could you do that could take you one step closer to your goal? (2:30) * If your life were unfolding exactly as it should, how would you think and act? (2:55) * What have you learned about yourself, your situation, and the action you can take? (3:22) For more videos in this series, visit https://mycoach.zone/workremote

1. What is the one thing … e.g., that is most important for your business? for people to take away from this meeting? 2. What has surprised you the most? 3. The seesaw question where you switch directions. E.g., "What's one area where things are going really well? Then where could things be even better?" Visit Senia's bio at https://svchange.com/senia View the whole series of webinars at https://mycoach.zone/workremote

Sandy Lewis talks about changing the types of questions we ask to change our focus and bring on greater creativity. * Instead of "What keeps you up at night?" ask "What's already working that you can build on?" * Instead of "What's broken here?" ask "What would you like to see more of?" * At the dinner table, ask "What went well for you today?" This is an approach called Appreciative Inquiry that is based on the premise that we shape the future with the questions we ask. To see more Work Remote videos, click https://mycoach.zone/WorkRemote To view Sandy's bio, click https://svchange.com/Sandy