No one likes to take orders. What if, instead of telling people what to do, we gave them the opportunity to do things themselves, to learn from their own mistakes?

Instead of saying “Do this” or “Don’t do that,” we should more often say, “You might consider this,” or “Do you think that would work?”

We long remember brash orders we’ve been given, times we’ve been screamed at — even if they were done to correct a bad error. But if we ask questions that give people the opportunity to correct errors themselves, we save their pride and give them a feeling of importance.

Asking questions also stimulates creativity, leading to new ideas and better solutions.

“People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.

For our endofterm exams we had to do some project work in team. Working in team is always very kind of complicated. Because you have to share your ideas with others, listen to them carefully and so on. Fortunately, for our marketing project we had a very harmonious team consisting of 5 girls: Mika, Sisly, Aliya, Gulnur and me 😊 there was no leader, nobody gave direct orders. Instead, we asked each other about what to do, who wants to do this or that.

Finally, we came up with pretty good presentation 😅 where everybody has an equal chance to show up themselves.