Karl Edwards presents Working Matters

Category: Questions of the Week

  • Question of the Week

    Are you aware of how quickly your employees can intuit whether or not you really believe in the company values you publish?

    The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness of one’s personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.

  • Question of the Week

    Are you as careful to stay ahead of the competition in your management practice as you are in your technical practice? What will any inattentiveness cost you?

    The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness about personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.

  • Question of the Week

    How do you use your gut feelings or intuition as a tool in decision making?

    The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness about personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.

  • Question of the Week

    If you were to delegate 50% of your workload, what criteria would you use to decide what would be done by others? Why?

  • Question of the Week

    What criteria do you use to measure the impact your work has on your quality of life?

  • Question of the Week

    What is involved in helping your team adjust to the loss or addition of key members?

  • Question of the Week

    How do you quantify what employee turnover costs your team in lost time, lost knowledge and retraining?

  • Question of the Week

    When work product is not as expected, how do you distinguish between a difference in substance (which you would confront as unacceptable) and a difference in style (which you would permit out of professional respect)?

  • Question of the Week

    How might others’ effectiveness increase if you chose to pause and chat with team members as you walk through the office?

  • Question of the Week

    What are you doing that invites others to treat you the way they do?