I found out that asking yourself and your team members the right questions makes a whole lot of difference. It makes things easy once you get in the habit of doing it.

Try some of these:

• in a stressful moment: What next thing makes the most sense at this time given the current situation?
• someone complains, ask: What can we do about this?
• when in doubt: What are the next steps?
• when things surprise you: What are these things telling us?
• after a setback: How can we learn from this?

I got inspired by a post by Steve Pavlina I remembered from long ago, in the recent past I started noticing that my CEO and other senior project managers ask these kind of questions quite a lot.

It’s funny how common sense this is, all you have to do is do it.