Take your professional conversations into the highest level!
Hi and welcome:
While you are reading this sentence, I assume that you wish to know more about our online program "Ask Questions and Listen with Presence"..
First of all, I dearly wish to thank you for your interest. I am John Bax, the main facilitator of the program.
Looking back on my professional development path I can still remember the quote “relationships between people are defined by the way they interact’.
In your job you will interact with different clients, managers or co-workers in different situations on different topics. But what stays the same is the fact that the quality of any interaction is very much influenced by the way you ask questions, listen to the answers and respond to them.
If you participate in this online program, you will get to know, understand and be able to apply questioning and listening skills that will take your professional conversations to the highest level.
Just have a look at the timeline and short description of the 5 online sessions below and check how much they appeal to you. And if they do, push the subscribe button, and we will meet at the first session 😊!
John Bax - OD and HRD specialist
35 years of experience in training and coaching
individuals and teams of multinational organisations
35 years of experience in training and coaching
individuals and teams of multinational organisations
What are the topics?
How to:
- open a small talk confidently and invitingly
- listen attentively to verbal and non-verbal cues
- build on what others say
- summarize and paraphrase effectively
- revive a fading conversation gracefully
How to:
- prepare what information you need
- ask targeted questions to get needed information
- listen actively with purpose
- request clarification and specification
- avoid vague or ambiguous understanding
How to:
- create a collaborative problem-solving atmosphere
- ask analytical and constructive questions
- listen without bias or interruption (cleanly)
- avoid discussion to become a debate
- ask solution- and action-oriented questions
How to:
- facilitate creative interaction
- ask positive open generative questions
- listen in an energizing and open-minded way
- support idea elaboration and divergence
- avoid or neutralize creativity blockers
How to:
- adapt questioning and listening strategies, techniques and types to various real-life situations and switch between them when the moment asks for it
Why participate?
You will participate in 5 online sessions, each consisting of the following 3 sections:
read more- a preparation section of programmed self-study to elevate your level of knowledge and understanding of the specific skills
- a practice section of online group-exercising to enhance your level of applying what you already know and understand
- an integration section of self-training to support your level of applying successfully all you learned in real-life situations
Before each online practicing section, you will receive the theory of the WHY, WHAT, WHEN and HOW regarding the specific skills to be trained and mastered, including illustrative examples, videos and articles.
At the beginning of each online practicing section there will be a short assessment of your knowledge and understanding regarding the skills to be practiced. If needed a short update will follow to close eventual gaps.
At the end of each online practicing section there will be a take-away inventory and a presentation of the assignments to be executed before the next session.
read lessIn effort, time and structure, each of the 5 online sessions will feature the following:
read more- preparational self-study assignments (1 to 1.5 hours before the session)
- online practicing sessions (2.5 hours per session, including 15-min break)
- integrating real-life assignments (minimum 30 minutes per working day)
- opening of the session
- introduction of the specific skills to be practiced during the session
- check-in assessment
- variety of practicing exercises
- inventory of the highlights
- check-out assessment
- assignments as a preparation for the next session
Price package
Fee per person
€/person
First subscription reduction
€/person