Asking open questions is an essential element of Conscious Listening, especially in a virtual setting.

Most often, we ask closed questions, which very often makes life even more difficult.

Two of the challenges that we face, especially online, when asking questions are the following:
Time pressure - online everything takes longer and we feel pressured to close down responses instead of fostering real curiosity and opening them up.
Silence - People don’t answer immediately and were left hanging in what we perceive as an embarrassing silence.

How do we deal with these and other challenges, to ask questions that really build conscious listening?

In this episode, we cover the issues that we have come across in our experience and explore some suggestions to solve them