Almost every sales trainer recommends asking open-ended questions. They rightly point out that close-ended questions (e.g. "How many widgets do you use every year?") tend to create a lull in the ...

Open-ended questions provide a plethora of data about instruction. They should be used as sources of ideas, providers of detail, and pinpointers of problems. Administration. The first and most ...

A child raised in a low-income household hears 1,537 fewer words per hour than one raised in a higher-income home, according to the landmark 1995 Hart and Risley study. Conducted at the University … ...

Using these criteria, we identified 30 open-ended questions from 26 surveys, covering a variety of topics, that could help us examine our core questions. Measuring nonresponse rates We identified ...

Asking deep open-ended questions helps you get that wisdom out of others. One of the ways that you, as a leader, can practice deep open-ended questions is to first look inward.

In an open-ended question, people answer in their own terms. In a closed-ended format, people choose from a given list of answers. (The vast majority of polling questions are closed-ended.) ...

Interviewers should prepare for interviews just as thoroughly as candidates do. Being equipped with compelling stories and setting aside dedicated preparation time, such as 30 minutes beforehand ...

One revealing question used an open-ended format. Instead of survey respondents’ reactions to issues which the survey’s preparer considers important, the respondents themselves pick the issues ...