Develop Your Employees

Instead, we help children study by asking them questions that guide them through the problem-solving process. The objective is to help them learn to think and solve problems for themselves, not to provide them the answers.

Obvious, right? So why don't we follow this tactic in the working world?

In many companies, managers are far too quick to jump in and fix their employees' problems. Rather than asking them a series of questions designed to develop their thinking process and enable them to solve the problem, many managers give employees the answers or—worse yet—do the work for the employee.