Make Question-asking your Superpower

Overview:

“There are no stupid questions” - a phrase uttered by teachers and leaders around the globe; however, it’s a half-truth. While there may not be stupid questions, there are weak ones that frankly don’t produce much insight.

Learn to breathe life into ideas, encourage people’s passion, expand horizons, solve real problems, and fuel an environment where people feel comfortable giving complete information. This course could expand your professional toolkit, strengthen all your relationships, boost your credibility, and get better results. The rewards will be exponential!

This course will help you get better information, strengthen relationships, and have more impact.

Learning Objectives:

 By the end of this course, you will be able to:

•       Use a variety of questioning techniques that will greatly expand your professional toolkit

•       Uncover assumptions that underlie work rather than taking things at face value

•       Be more inquisitive

•       Boost your question-asking skills with clean listening and empathic listening techniques

•       Probe for the deeper purpose, meaning, or motivation

•       Question in a way that helps others think more deeply, broadly, or differently

•       Employ a structured methodology for asking questions

Who Will Benefit: 

 Accounting and finance professionals who would like to ask better questions to enhance insights, encourage more in-depth conversations, or improve end results. Well suited to any professional - from early career (e.g. job interviews; one on one's) to mid to very senior (board-level questioning skills).