Author: Andy Eklund

One of the ways to help conduct a productive interview – a general word I used for any meeting where you’re asking questions of another person – is to organise

Here are the basic listening techniques to use when listening and responding to the other party’s answers. Each of the six points below can demonstrate that you’re pro-actively listening to the

Jump to Four Steps to Listen Better Of all the topics in the category of Questioning, possibly the most difficult skill to learn and practice is listening. Listening is actively hearing

There are many different types of questions, but arguably the four basic types which fall into two common categories:  closed and open. Let’s drill down into the four types below.

A Questioning Strategy is a fancy way of saying you should think of all your questions in advance of any interview or meeting, regardless of whether the audience is your CEO, general

It’s hard to under-estimate the value of questions. They are the most direct and most simple tool to get good information from another person. Questions are the first sign –

Intuition is a magical thing. It appears out of nowhere. We often feel it before we realise it’s there. Often we call it a gut reaction. We also can’t make it appear.

Turning information into ideas is a natural and important process of problem solving, both strategically and creatively. It’s a relatively linear and simple path, where each step builds upon the

In a previous post, I wrote about the well-known nine-dot puzzle which inspired the phrase ‘thinking outside the box’ and its variations. A brain-teaser from the late 18th century, the