How To Ask Positive Questions

How many questions do you think you will ask today? Or, how many do you think you’ve already asked? Undoubtedly questions are an important part of communication, but how you ask them is even more important. Asking questions is a communication skill, and like other such skill it improves with practice and training. However, this training is not overly complicated or strenuous, as it involves simple practice and common sense rules. This Video On Demand lesson, featuring actor John O’Hurley, gives you easy to follow examples of how to and how not to ask questions.

There are certain key elements of question asking that you need to understand, including timing, phrasing, and inflection. Depending on whether or not you use them correctly, they could either help or hurt your team. Ultimately, your goal is to help your team and make them stronger, and this can only be done by understanding the proper way to ask questions. Use the information presented in this online video-based training to master the skill of question-asking and get the answers you need.

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Everyone who works on a team

• Introduction
• Questions Are Essential
• Inflection
• Phrasing
• Timing
• Alaska Energy
• Conclusion

• Voice Intonation In 1 Minute
• Responding In Communication In 1 Minute
• Responding To Negativity In 1 Minute