Strategy
Question Transformation Workshop
Bad questions yield bad answers. This exercise re-trains your team to ask open, curious, and productive questions. Transform real-world questions to build better questioning habits and get useful information.
Duration
1.5 hours
Group Size
4-10
Category
Strategy
Difficulty
Easy
- Recognize unproductive question patterns (closed, leading, assumptive). - Transform weak questions into stronger ones. - Build a shared vocabulary for question quality. - Create question templates for common scenarios.
- Transformed questions that improve conversations and insights. - A shared vocabulary for evaluating question quality. - Templates for formulating productive questions.
Using real questions teaches more than fabricated ones. Push participants to recall questions from actual situations. Discomfort from seeing weak questions aids learning. The biggest opportunity is the follow-up question. Train people to probe deeper instead of moving on after a surface-level answer. 'Tell me more' is powerful. Participants might defend leading questions. Gently challenge them. For example, ask if they needed to know if the user 'liked' something, or if they needed to understand the user's experience. Old habits are hard to break. Expect participants to slip up. The value lies in the practice and awareness, not perfection.
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