Questions

• What makes a powerful question for you? What are some of the most powerful questions you have encountered in your life? Tell a story.
• What is your experience of questions shifting the direction of action?
• In what situation in my life and work could I use more powerful questions?

”If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it
I would use the first 55 minutes to formulate the right question
because as soon as I have identified the right question
I can solve the problem in less than five minutes”

- Albert Einstein –

Asking the right question

Asking the right question is the most effective way of opening up a conversation and keeping it engaging. A high-quality question focuses on what is meaningful for the participants, triggers our curiosity and invites us to explore further.

While answers tend to bring us to closure, questions open up to exploration.

When inviting people into a conversation that matters, it is helpful to have an overall question, one that itself embodies the purpose of the meeting. This is the key question or the “calling question” for the conversation or meeting. The calling question is best formulated together with key stakeholders.
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As 'Moving The Edge' is already happening now, we - the convening team - decided to post some questions for reflection, and the answers that we came up with. More answers will be posted in the days to come.

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