The art of the question

We are doing a heavily compressed leadership development program; instead of 12 days over 4 months, we have people for 4.5 days only.

Yesterday I was primarily a coach for the two facilitators, giving feedback, fine-tuning the design and reviewing the work products. I was also the typist, typing up several flipcharts which gave me a feel for the thinking of the participants.

Today I was more of a trainer, exploring people’s experiences with social phenomena such as influence, change, overcoming obstacles to achieve things of importance, then providing frameworks to hang their experiences on.

One of the things we taught the participants is to ask ‘why?’ often. We trained them well because they are now constantly asking the question. Practice makes perfect.

2 Responses to “The art of the question”


  1. S. M.'s avatar 1 S. M. October 2, 2012 at 1:17 pm

    Dear, did you distribute them the book ” leading by Asking”?
    as one of your trainees I learn questioning art from the mention reference that you have provided to us 😉

  2. svriesendorp's avatar 2 svriesendorp October 3, 2012 at 10:38 am

    Dear S, you reminded me of that book. I hope you are studying it as questions are the best tools in one’s toolkit for organizational strengthening. I think I will buy myself a new copy. Your job is to read your copy, study it and then teach others!


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