Ask POWERFUL questions.

My husband showed me a list of common interview questions that was published in an article on LinkedIn. I read through these 20 questions and they made me laugh. Are they really still asking senior managers “where do you see yourself in 5 years?” Because, I have seen them ask this same question from 11 year old’s who are getting ready to wrap up primary school. This stone age question is also still making the top 10 - “tell me a time when you had to handle a difficult colleague and how did you manage it?”. This issue is something we expect our children to already know at primary school age. Teachers are quite unhappy and impatient when children are unable to figure out how to manage social discord at the young age of 7 but at 57, it’s considered a skill worth discussing at length before making employment decisions! Go figure!

Let’s teach our children to ask powerful questions from themselves and those around them so that they get quality answers back. Here are 10 for you to inspire them with (and yourself) that will stretch them, entertain them, excite them and get their creativity flowing. Hopefully practising this from a young age will help them grow and lead the new generations of the workforce to newer heights and maximising their minds and therefore their potentials.

Powerful Questions for Kids

1. Who are you?

2. How do you show kindness in the simplest ways?

3. How do you handle your tough emotions?

4. What 3 tips can you give me to be a good friend?

5. Sometimes we all feel like giving up - how do you keep yourself going?

6. What makes you laugh?

7. What kind of adult do you plan on being?

8. If you could change one thing in your community for the better, what would it be?

9. How do you step up as a leader in your family?

10. If you had an entire day to yourself, to do what you want, how would you spend it?

BONUS

11. If you could meet anyone in the word, dead or alive, famous or not, who would it be?