The Answer is a Question: The Missing Superpower that Changes Everything and Will Transform Your Impact as a Manager and Leader

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answer, rejoinder, reply, response, retort all mean words used to meet a question, remark, charge, etc. For a counsellor or interrogator these funnelling techniques can be a very useful tactic to find out the maximum amount of information, by beginning with open questions and then working towards more closed questions. The biggest takeway from the STAR® model is definitely the increased self-awareness which leads to better outcomes in every aspect of life. Sun, Haitian; Dhingra, Bhuwan; Zaheer, Manzil; Mazaitis, Kathryn; Salakhutdinov, Ruslan; Cohen, William (2018). Let me ponder for a few hours, though, about whether this nice word is satisfactory, or whether its semantic range is a bit too narrow; sometimes people answer a question with another question not because they believe in the other person's innate wisdom, but because they want to evade a straight answer, or even to violently challenge the premises — or right — of the questioner to ask the question.

They suggest dialogue, especially when the speaker both asks and answers them himself, as if he were playing two parts on the stage. It was the reverse of an ordinary question mark, so that instead of the main opening pointing back into the sentence, it opened away from it. Conceited is not as common as pompous, and it is disapproving except in the more informal phrase not to be conceited.However, in the incorrect example, an answer has already been provided, and suddenly “for” makes no sense. This concept has a large overlap with the other proposed answers of a "rhetorical question" and a "tautological question", but a question that answers itself need not be posed for rhetorical effect (in which case it would not be a rhetorical question), and conversely a rhetorical question need not answer itself (e.

We can use clever questioning to essentially funnel the respondent’s answers – that is ask a series of questions that become more (or less) restrictive at each step, starting with open questions and ending with closed questions or vice-versa. The Answer is a Question' is a valuable resource for personal development and managers in the workplace. The language abilities of BASEBALL and LUNAR used techniques similar to ELIZA and DOCTOR, the first chatterbot programs.

The real strength of the STAR method is its ability to strengthen communication between teams and to build and shape team members into leaders. Tech support only publish those figures monthly, let me check the latest data and I’ll get back to you tomorrow. We provide a question for someone to answer, and we only want them to be honest with it, even if they don’t know the “correct” answer. The answer is unhelpful, as some might even consider 'tautological question' a compound, like 'rhetorical question'.