Change Your Questions, Change Your Life Workbook - by Marilee Adams (Paperback)

About the Book

"Based on the bestseller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, this workbook is a practical guide that helps readers immediately implement the Question Thinking method. In the bestselling classic Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Marilee Adams introduces the Question Thinking method, which uses questions to help people make wiser choices, find solutions, and transform their lives. This standalone workbook puts the ideas of the original book into action and makes them easy to implement. Along with summarizing the concepts in Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, the workbook includes plenty of tools, warm-up exercises, and learning scenarios that help readers apply Question Thinking in their personal and professional lives. Readers will learn how to use the Choice Map, identify and switch from a Judger to Learner mindset, and facilitate effective meetings and conversations. Thoroughly engaging, the book has a strong narrative voice that makes the reader feel a deep connection to the author and is designed to deliver tangible benefits"--

Book Synopsis

Based on the bestseller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, this workbook is a practical guide that helps readers ask the right questions for successful change.

In the bestselling classic, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Dr. Marilee Adams introduces Question Thinking, which shows how you can change your questions and your mindset for the most successful outcomes. This workbook puts those original ideas into action and makes them easy to implement.

In this workbook you get to choose an area of your life that you want to improve and then apply the principles and practices of Question Thinking to experience the benefits of this system firsthand. At the center of this work is the Choice Map, which helps you recognize the likely impact of the questions you ask. This book provides tools, warm-up exercises, somatic practices, and learning scenarios that bring the practical applications of Question Thinking into your professional and personal life. Thoroughly engaging, it includes how the Question Thinking protocols can help you switch from a controlling Judger Mindset to a flexible Learner mindset and learn how to facilitate more effective meetings and conversations.

Although this workbook can serve as a companion to the bestselling book, it has been designed to stand on its own. In the book, the fable's hero undergoes a transformative journey by using Question Thinking, and this workbook helps readers undergo a similar transformation.

Review Quotes

"Marilee's writings are by far the most profound articulation of the power of the question that I've come across. It's true: we live in worlds our questions create."
--David Cooperrider, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, and founder of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit

"When we change our questions, we open our minds and our consciousness expands. This book is a masterful volume designed for those who wish to be fully alive."
--Robert E. Quinn, cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizations, University of Michigan, and coauthor of The Economics of Higher Purpose

"As a fellow champion of the power of questioning, I consider Marilee Adams to be one of the pioneers in this field. The storytelling format of Change Your Questions makes the book a breeze to read while the Question Thinking Users Guide shows how practical her work really is."
--Warren Berger, author of A More Beautiful Question

"Our complex world demands that we ask different questions, but the power of habit throws us into the Judger Pit. Dr. Adams shows us how to get out of the Judger Pit and stay out--and how to improve our relationships, our work, and our lives with a new mindset that offers more helpful questions."
--Jennifer Garvey Berger, EdD, author of Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps

About the Author

Marilee Adams, PhD, is an award-winning author and a pioneer in the fields of inquiry-based coaching, leadership, and organizational culture. The originator of the Question Thinking methodologies, she is CEO and founder of the Inquiry Institute and a consultant for organizations large and small. Dr. Adams is an affiliate instructor for Weatherhead's Executive Education Program at Case Western Reserve University and for ten years was an adjunct professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University.