Asking The Right Questions
Help your teams think more clearly, challenge assumptions, evaluate arguments, and make better decisions through the power of purposeful questioning.
Course Focus
Participants learn how to ask better questions, uncover hidden assumptions, identify weak reasoning, and engage in more productive business conversations.
- Critical thinking
- Decision-making conversations
- Strategic dialogue
- Reasoning and assumptions
Why Asking the Right Questions Matters
In a business environment full of information, opinions, and competing priorities, the ability to ask the right questions helps teams separate facts from assumptions and move from confusion to clarity.
Improve Decisions
Help teams evaluate options more carefully before jumping to conclusions.
Challenge Assumptions
Uncover hidden beliefs, unclear logic, and untested ideas that shape decisions.
Strengthen Dialogue
Create more thoughtful conversations in meetings, workshops, and strategic discussions.
A Practical Workshop in Critical Thinking
This course gives professionals a practical framework for examining ideas, evaluating arguments, and asking questions that lead to better understanding and better outcomes.
- Understand the anatomy of an argument
- Distinguish descriptive issues from prescriptive issues
- Identify assumptions, values, and reasoning gaps
- Recognize common reasoning errors
- Use better questions to improve business conversations
Delivery Format
Asking The Right Questions is a 6-hour course that can be delivered as:
- One full-day workshop
- Two half-day sessions
- Live online delivery
- Onsite corporate delivery
What Participants Will Learn
Participants develop a practical questioning mindset they can apply in meetings, analysis sessions, leadership conversations, and decision-making discussions.
The Anatomy of an Argument
Understand issues, conclusions, reasons, evidence, and assumptions.
Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Issues
Separate questions about what is from questions about what should be done.
Value Assumptions
Recognize how values such as efficiency, fairness, security, and loyalty influence reasoning.
Reasoning Errors
Identify weak logic, vague language, misleading claims, and unsupported conclusions.
The Pyramid of Disagreement
Move conversations from personal reactions to stronger reasoning and constructive disagreement.
Gold-Panning Thinking
Shift from passively absorbing information to actively searching for insight and evidence.
Designed for Professionals Who Need Better Thinking Conversations
This workshop is ideal for professionals who need to analyze information, challenge ideas respectfully, and support better business decisions.
Bring Critical Thinking Training to Your Team
We can customize this workshop based on your team’s decision-making challenges, communication culture, leadership goals, and preferred delivery format.