What are good questions to get to know someone?
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What are good questions to get to know someone?
100 Getting to Know You Questions
- Who is your hero?
- If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
- What is your biggest fear?
- What is your favorite family vacation?
- What would you change about yourself if you could?
- What really makes you angry?
- What motivates you to work hard?
- What is your favorite thing about your career?
What are the characteristics of good questions?
Here are some of the most essential characteristics of a good question.
- Relevant. A good question is relevant.
- Clear. A good question is framed in a clear, easily understandable language, without any vagueness.
- Concise.
- Purposeful.
- Guiding But Not Leading.
- Stimulates Thinking.
- Single-Dimensional.
What is an effective questioning?
Effective questioning involves using questions in the classroom to open conversations, inspire deeper intellectual thought, and promote student-to-student interaction. Effective questions focus on eliciting the process, i.e. the ‘how’ and ‘why,’ in a student’s response, as opposed to answers which just detail ‘what.
What are the different types of questioning techniques?
Let’s start with everyday types of questions people ask, and the answers they’re likely to elicit.
- Closed questions (aka the ‘Polar’ question)
- Open questions.
- Probing questions.
- Leading questions.
- Loaded questions.
- Funnel questions.
- Recall and process questions.
- Rhetorical questions.
What’s a probing question?
Probing is asking follow-up questions when we do not fully understand a response, when answers are vague or ambiguous or when we want to obtain more specific or in-depth information.
What is the probing technique?
Probing involves the use of specific words or other interviewing techniques by an interviewer to clarify or to seek elaboration of a person’s response to a survey question
What is probing questions in communication?
Asking probing questions is another strategy for finding out more detail. Sometimes it’s as simple as asking your respondent for an example, to help you understand a statement that they have made.
What are some examples of clarifying questions?
Some examples of non-directive clarification-seeking questions are:
- “I’m not quite sure I understand what you are saying.”
- “I don’t feel clear about the main issue here.”
- “When you said …….. what did you mean?”
- “Could you repeat …?”
What is the difference between probing and clarifying questions?
Clarifying Questions are simple questions of fact. They clarify the dilemma and provide the nuts and bolts. They have brief, factual answers, and don’t provide any new “food for thought” for the presenter. Probing Questions are intended to help the presenter think more deeply about the issue at hand.
What are leading questions examples?
A leading question suggests a particular answer that the questioner desires – most often a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. ∎ “Were you in Los Angeles last week?” ∎ You were in Los Angeles last week, weren’t you? ∎ You didn’t see the stop sign, did you?