Question Before Advice
Replace premature advice with questions that help a peer diagnose their own action problem.
The action-learning set is not a disguised consulting panel. Its job is to help the problem owner think, act, and learn from action. When the group rushes to advice, it converts a learning cycle into a recommendation meeting. The practical discipline is simple: ask before advising, and make each question useful enough to move the owner toward a testable action. Use three question families. Clarifying questions establish facts: what happened, who is affected, what data is reliable? Assumption questions surface the mental model: what are you treating as true, what explanation are you favoring, what would change your mind? Action…
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