Monday, December 17, 2012

How to ask a question

Great insight moves your career, organization, or business forward. The problem? Most people are terrible at asking questions. Learn from the pros how to do it right...
...Good questions can move your business, organization, or career forward. They squeeze incremental value from interactions, the drops of which add up to reservoirs of insight. Of all the skills innovators can learn from journalists, the art of the expert Q&A is the most useful.
The problem is, most of us ask terrible questions. We talk too much and accept bad answers (or worse, no answers). We’re too embarrassed to be direct, or we’re afraid of revealing our ignorance, so we throw softballs, hedge, and miss out on opportunities to grow...
Details at the link below.
Don’t Ask Multiple-Choice Questions
Don’t Fish
Interject With Questions When Necessary
Field Non-Answers By Reframing Questions Later
Repeat Answers Back For Clarification Or More Detail
Don’t Be Embarrassed  

The One Conversational Tool That Will Make You Better At Absolutely Everything

 

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