Skills of inquiry

Question 1

What are the types of questions?

Answer 1

Closed, open, leading, controlling, probing, reflecting, what if.

Question 2

Compare between negative and positive feedback.

Answer 2

Negative focuses on what you did wrong/don’t have, and positive focuses on what is good.

Question 3

How to turn negative feedback into positive?

Answer 3

Using ‘how to’.

Question 4

What are the vital skills of inquiry?

Answer 4

Paying attention, treating the speaker equally, cultivating ease, encouraging, asking quality questions, rationing information, giving positive feedback.

Question 5

What is interrupting?

Answer 5

A clear sign of poor listening; stemming from the internal urge to fill in silences and underlying assumptions made about the speaker and their ideas.

Question 6

What is cultivating ease?

Answer 6

Good thinking thrives in relaxed environments, allowing deeper inquiry and more idea generation. The fact that ease is laziness is a misconception.