EP217: Questions To Get People To Do

<p>On this episode of The Wednesday Call podcast, Andy Albright comes to you live from his home in Treasure Island, Fla. to talk about how to use questions to help people get stuff done.</p> <div class="page" title="Page 2"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Seven Questions To Navigate The DO:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Do you always DO what you schedule?</p> </li> <li> <p>Do you tell people that you are going to DO?</p> </li> <li> <p>Do you DO necessary evils everyday?</p> </li> <li> <p>Do you go past the expectation of the DO?</p> </li> <li> <p>Do you break the DO into manageable sections?</p> </li> <li> <p>Do you bribe yourself for good DO behavior?</p> </li> <li> <p>Do you have a wall to bounce the DO off of?</p> </li> </ol> <div class="page" title="Page 3"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Do You Always DO What You Schedule?</p> <p>"Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything." --Thomas Sterner</p> </div> </div> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Moral: <span style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> You will never get real progress if you don't honor your schedule. If you are not daring and forward enough, you can never get past the thinking stage of getting work done.</span></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="page" title="Page 4"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Questions 1 Responses:</p> <p>People are more likely to do something if you can get them to phrase it as a question to themselves (Will I honor my schedule this week?), rather than if you get them to say a declarative statement (I will honor my schedule this week!).</p> <p>We are basically all "control freaks." The desire to control starts as young as 4 months old. Posing a question to ourselves gives us the illusion of that control versus a declarative statement which insinuates an ultimatum we hate.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="page" title="Page