Questions That Get Answers

What sort of questions are truly worth asking? When you ask questions you are using a powerful language tool to focus conversational attention and guide your interaction with others. Having flexibility in your questioning skills is critical to effective communication and influencing. Asking effective questions helps people to understand that you are genuinely interested in what they have to say, so it is important for rapport-building. The ability to be concise with our questioning enables people to quickly gain a greater understanding of their thinking and provides the person asking the question with clear information and understanding of the others person's needs and expectations.

This programme will help:
Anyone who is committed to further enhancing their questioning skills. This workshop is appropriate for any anyone who works in a team, manages others, communicates with clients, attends meetings or is involved in interview or coaching type situations.

Suggested Pre-requisites:
Hard Facts about Soft Skills

Course duration:
2.0 hours

Course Aim
This course helps individuals to review and develop their questioning skills. Provide participants with the opportunity to gauge their questioning skills, examine and demonstrate different types of questioning techniques.

Course Objectives:
By the end of the course participants will be able to:

  • List and demonstrate different questioning techniques
  • Explain the importance of having flexibility when questioning
  • Effectively control conversations with effective questions
  • Ask precise questions that assist themselves and others discover information that is missing during a conversation

*Listening That Gains Results and Questions That Get Answers can be delivered as singular programmes or combined for maximum results.

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