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Conversation skills start and end with attitude and your most valuable tool in any conversation is your questions. With your questions you glean information. Some questions you can use at any time and in almost every situation. Yet there are some questions you do better to avoid.

What you will learn in this course:

  • How your attitude influences your conversations
  • Which attitude to assume to straightaway improve the quality of your conversations
  • The different kinds of question you can use and when to use them
  • The questions you can best avoid …
  • How to have attention for positive as well as negative things.
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Here’s what you’ll learn

Attitude

Conversation skills start and end with attitude. It’s important to know who you are before you can get where you want to be. Knowing who you are means you can choose your attitude. If your attitude is not authentic, then the strategies you use will be nothing more than tricks that will backfire sooner or later. So let’s look at which attitude works best!

Questions

Your most valuable tool in any conversation is your questions. Understanding which questions you may use and in which circumstances they work best, means you choose the direction the conversation is going in. And what information you will get from the other!

Good questions, bad questions

Some questions you can use at any time and in almost every situation, the so-called good questions. And yet, there are some questions you do better to avoid. We discuss these questions, how to recognize them quickly and how to change them quickly and simply.

Questions and information

All questions are meant to glean some information. So in this module we will focus on the different kinds of information you might want to obtain and how to change the focus of your questions to do that.

Course Lessons

Introduction course 4

Introducing the ideas of attitude and questions on having effective conversations.

Lessons

Introduction course 4 Attitude and questions Observational Listening and Psychological Safety

4.1 Attitude

Conversation skills start and end with attitude. It’s important to know who you are before you can get where you want to be. Knowing who you are means you can choose your attitude. If your attitude is not authentic, then the strategies you use will be nothing more than tricks that will backfire sooner or later. So let’s look at which attitude works best!

Lessons

Introduction module 4.1 Read section 4.1 Be present Your attitude? Watch Simon Sinek on "Being the idiot" Evaluation 4.1

4.2 Questions

Your most valuable tool in any conversation is your questions. Understanding which questions you may use and in which circumstances they work best, means you choose the direction the conversation is going in. And what information you will get from the other!

Lessons

Introducing Questions Read about open and closed questions Watch Alexander Lyon Quick quiz Practice open ended and closed ended questions Evaluation 4.2

4.3 Good questions, bad questions

Some questions you can use at any time and in almost every situation, the so-called good questions. And yet, there are some questions you do better to avoid. We discuss these questions, how to recognize them quickly and how to change what you ask quickly and simply.

Lessons

Are there bad questions? Read about good and bad questions Quick quiz Practice with Jamil Evaluation 4.3

4.4 Questions and information

All questions are meant to glean some information. So in this module we will focus on the different kinds of information you might want to obtain and how to change the focus of your questions to do that.

Lessons

What kinds of information are you after? Read about the relationship between questions and information Practice with Julian Practice with Peter In closing … Evaluation 4.4