{"id":4405,"date":"2016-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasugacommunications.com\/ja\/what-should-i-ask-in-meetings-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:37:08","slug":"what-should-i-ask-in-meetings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasugacommunications.com\/ja\/what-should-i-ask-in-meetings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should I Ask In Meetings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u3053\u306e\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u3067\u306f\u3001<wbr \/>\u8cea\u554f\u3059\u308b\u3053\u3068\u3067\u30df\u30fc\u30c6\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u3092\u6709\u52b9\u306b\u6d3b\u7528\u3059\u308b\u3053\u3068\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u304a\u8a71\u3057<wbr \/>\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u8a18\u4e8b\u306f\u82f1\u8a9e\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3069\u3046\u305e\u304a\u5f79\u7acb\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\uff01<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dt4u1FTtoLU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can\u2019t see the video player above?\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dt4u1FTtoLU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch it on YouTube<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Transcript<\/h2>\n<p>Have you ever been in a meeting where you didn\u2019t agree with what someone said, but you didn\u2019t say anything? Or you didn\u2019t understand something, but you didn\u2019t say anything? Or you thought that you agreed and you understood, but after the meeting the action that your colleagues took was different from what you expected?<\/p>\n<p>This happens.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well because as human beings we interpret things based on our experiences, our background, and our culture. And the more diverse our experiences, our background, and our culture, the more likely we are to interpret things in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>This leads to what I call \u201cmottainai\u201d in the workplace &#8212; a waste in the workplace &#8212; because we are not getting the best results, we have inefficiency and stress.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a senior manager &#8212; an American gentleman &#8212; came to me and he was very frustrated. He said to me, \u201cHelen, I don\u2019t understand it. I tell my team what to do and they come back a week later with something completely different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an American, he was expecting them to ask questions if they didn\u2019t understand what he was saying. But his team was Japanese and maybe they thought, \u201cOh, we shouldn\u2019t really question our senior colleague\u201d or \u201cWe don\u2019t want to show that we don\u2019t understand something\u201d or maybe they just weren\u2019t used to asking questions.<\/p>\n<p>So my recommendation is to ask more questions.<\/p>\n<p>Now how can you do this? Well, first of all listen for things that you don\u2019t understand in a meeting and then question them.<\/p>\n<p>Or if that is too big a step for you as it was for one Japanese gentleman I was coaching recently. He said, \u201cOh no I understand the benefit, but I&#8217;m not comfortable speaking up in a meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I said, \u201cWell start off with just asking someone immediately after the meeting.\u201d That\u2019s the first step. Just take those tiny steps out of the comfort zone. So he agreed to do that.<\/p>\n<p>And to help you with questions, I\u2019ve created <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/go.sasugacommunications.com\/25questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a list of 25\u00a0questions that you can ask in meetings<\/a><\/span> to help you to clear up those misunderstandings so that you don\u2019t have so much \u201cmottainai\u201d of not getting the best results, inefficiency, and stress. What I would say though is take it a little bit at a time.<\/p>\n<p>So the other my daughter &#8212; my teenage daughter &#8212; suggested that we do a squat challenge. So I did 55\u00a0squats all at once. And then I could hardly walk for two days.<\/p>\n<p>So now instead of doing so much at once,\u00a0I\u2019ve now learned to build up the number of squats that I&#8217;m doing a little bit every day. So yesterday I was at 10. Today I\u2019m at 11. And I\u2019m doing okay with it.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, think of one question that you want to ask in your next meeting. Start a little by little stepping out of your comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3053\u306e\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u3067\u306f\u3001\u8cea\u554f\u3059\u308b\u3053\u3068\u3067\u30df\u30fc\u30c6\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u3092\u6709\u52b9\u306b\u6d3b\u7528\u3059\u308b\u3053\u3068\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u304a\u8a71\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u8a18\u4e8b\u306f\u82f1\u8a9e\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3069\u3046\u305e\u304a\u5f79\u7acb\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\uff01 Can\u2019t see the video player above?\u00a0Watch it on YouTube. 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