During a conversation, a misunderstanding can happen at any time. Now a smart way to avoid this occurring, and get to the deeper meaning, particularly with an important situation, is to ask questions. Asking questions, and knowing how to ask questions, is important. Equally, how to ask good questions and how to ask great questions, will allow you to extract the kind of…
Is this a statement or a fact? A universal truth about asking a question is that a person will always answer it. True or false? Well, maybe I know something about you that you don’t know! A person will always answer a question even if they haven’t the first idea about the answer. How? Why? It all happens inside their head. The most powerful way to persuade someone to do…
When you are in any advisory capacity, perhaps you are a sales person, a coach, a trainer, a confidante of any kind for that matter, one of the most sensible and effective ways to assist a person who wants to make a change is to ask good questions. Here’s how. What can good questions achieve? Well, questions lead your listener to a conclusion and they bypass distractions…
If you truly want great results, ask great right questions! And here’s how. Previously I suggested one of the most powerful question you can ask a person who is to some degree uncertain about what direction to take is: “What do you want?” It’s useful to follow this question up by asking: “How will you know when you’ve got it?” Why is this? Well, it gives them the internal evidence…
People will always answer your questions even if they say absolutely nothing. So, when you are faced with a tricky situation, a tricky meeting of some kind, always make sure you have assembled a number of smart questions beforehand! Most people prefer to have a set of rules for most of the things that they do. This makes any task far easier. Men in particular, are prone…
