Dear Members and Guests,
PWA was delighted to feature Rebeccah Bennett from Emerging Wisdom, LLC at the July 2013 Women of Distinction Speaker Series. Her presentation titled, “Strategic Inquiry – Game Changing Questions that Advance Forward Movement” provided information on powerful inquiry. If you were unable to attend, listed below are take-a-ways from Rebeccah’s presentation.
The Power of Good Questions
- All human discoveries come from curiosity. We ask questions.
- Questions about causes help us think of dynamics
- Good questions:
- Focus attention
- Cultivate insight
- Generate value
- Help us to know what we don’t know
- Questions can lead to more questions and a refinement of thinking
- Powerful Questions:
- Encourage dialogue and discovery
- Offer a reality check
- Help others understand
- Sharpen analysis and synthesis skills
- Questions can form a pathway into long-term memory and gives meaning
- Adaption of questions sues old stuff in a creative way
- Innovation is thinking creatively of what we have
- Good questions designs:
- Interrogatives: Who, What, Why and How
- Scope of Interest: Where is the focus
- Assumptions: Create blind spots and are filters
- Three Heavies:
- Why – Cause
- How – Process
- What – Dimensions or Aspects
- Harness the power of contribution to create forward movement
- Teams tend to use more than three hats and can have more impact if all hats are used
- Ask the black hat questions later on as they focus on problems and difficulties
- Use open ended questions
