Self Communication

How to Stop Blocking Your Most Powerful Thought Processes

Those leading to answers you actually want!

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Questions are a powerful communication tool — possibly the most powerful! However, the effectiveness of our questions relies heavily on the quality!

We use questions all the time, but how many of us think of questioning as a skill that can be developed and perfected as a specific part of our communications processes?

If we compare an average use of questions with that of professionals, like lawyers and doctors, it’s easy to see the difference in quality. Important decisions they make rely on the information they gather, they understand therefore, the quality of answers depend upon quality of questions.

If you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Edward Hodnett

There can surely be no doubt then of the immense power and value of questioning and the impact it can have when communicating with others. There is another communication process however, where questions are equally as powerful but is almost always overlooked - our…