How Leaders Handle
Questions and Decisions
Great Leaders Do is studying how leaders respond when team members bring them questions, decisions, and problems.
This anonymous 5-minute study explores when giving an answer is helpful—and when another response may do more to build judgment, confidence, ownership, and capability.
Your perspective will help inform future Great Leaders Do research, leadership tools, practical resources, and the development of The Answer Trap.
Every answer teaches something.
Leaders are often rewarded for being helpful, responsive, and capable. This study looks at what happens when those strengths make one person the default source for questions and decisions—and which leadership responses help teams build more independent judgment over time.
Share your perspective.
The survey is anonymous and takes approximately five minutes. If the embedded form does not load on your device, use the button below to open it directly.
Real leadership moments. Real choices.
Who gets the question?
How often do questions, decisions, and problems route back to one leader?
What does the leader do?
When do leaders answer directly, ask, coach, delegate, or intervene?
What gets built?
How do everyday responses shape ownership, confidence, judgment, and team capability?
From research to real leadership practice.
The ideas behind this study connect directly to the Great Leaders Do framework and the live Answer Trap leadership experience.