Did you every ask different questions to elicit responses that fostered growth? If so… you’ll likely use mixes of these 4:
1. open-ended questions – when answers should involve the application of knowledge in creative ways. For example, "What will happen to the economy if industry continues to outsource at the same rate?"
2. focusing questions - when you want to help people to select specific responses from a wide array of facts. Ask, for example, "Looking more closely at the fate of western manufacturing, how might our current products stay solvent?"
3. interpretive questions - when you want to compare, contrast and show logical connections among facts. For example, "How do you account for the shutdown of the Maritime fisheries?"
4. capstone questions - when you hope to create closure or draw conclusions. For example, "What lesson might can we take away from recent events in our organization?" Capstone questions that involve interpretation of data call for enveloping generalizations, inferences, or interpretive summaries. For example, "What could we learning from how successful industries handled similar events?"
Questions like the ones identified here help people to explore, illustrate, and express new information in ways that grow an organization.
When questions are designed for specific outcomes, and when they are thought-provoking and stimulating ... they help people to clarify and express precisely what they can offer that growth.
Do you agree that good questions provide keys to motivation and deeper understanding of issues in ways that prosper the organization that engages them?
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