• Asking the right questions is a skill
• Asking the right questions can bring clarity
• Asking the right questions can eliminate confusion
• Asking the right questions bring understanding
• Asking the right questions can lead to the knowledge you seek
• Asking the right questions can provide an opportunity for fresh thoughts

The quality of questions determines the quality of answers. When questions go unasked, it is unusual to generate quality solutions. Questions set the framework for performance, interaction, and growth.

Connecting questions:

• What do you do for fun?
• What are you most passionate about?
• What's your favorite cause or charity?
• What's your guilty pleasure? (And why?)
• What is your life makes you the proudest?
• What's on your bucket list?
• In case I can refer business to you, who is your perfect client or partner?
• What do you mean by ….?

Question cycle:

• Reflective questions (self):
  • Who am I?
  • How am I feeling/reacting? (Self-awareness)
• Interpretive questions:
  • What does that mean?
• Decisional/directional questions:
  • What do I do?
  • Where do we go? (direction, effort, implementation….)
• Objective questions: Information gathering: Probing/closed…..
  • What’s happening?
  • What went wrong?
  • What went right?
  • What’s next?

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered, than answers that can’t be questioned.” Richard Feynman