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by Sunita Sehmi Published June 30, 2025 in Leadership • 3 min read
If you answered ‘yes’ to most of these questions, it sounds like your focus on being solutions-focused – although genuinely intended to support your team – is having the opposite effect to the one intended.
By framing advice as questions, you are effectively telling your reports what to do. Such advice-giving is a form of “helicoptering”: controlling or micro-managing that only serves to stifle autonomy, decision-making, and creative thinking. Telling and not asking is a hard habit to break. Here’s how to switch modes from directing to learning:
Question-asking is an important and powerful skill that you can add to your leadership toolkit. It will help ensure your team members feel heard and empowered to think, decide, and act with greater agency and autonomy. Remember: asking better questions leads to better decisions.
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Organizational consultant and author
Sunita Sehmi is an organizational consultant and author of How To Get Out Of Your Own Way and The Power of Belonging. Her consulting firm, Walk The Talk empowers senior leaders to build high-performing organizations and teams across a breadth of sectors and industries. In her free time, Sunita volunteers, supports several female-led organizations in India and is a Business Mentor for the Richard Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship. She also volunteers for Cancer Support in Geneva, Switzerland.
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