The Power of Wonder: Asking Facilitative Questions
Too often, we forget to be curious about one another - especially at work. It can be so easy to stop asking questions and resort to dry directives and choruses of “I’m fine.” However, over time, there is a cost to limiting the wonder in the room.
Workplace culture suffers, meetings become “coulda been emails,” siloing increases, conflicts emerge, and worst of all, we lose sense of each other’s humanity. But there is a different way…
We can reconnect with each other by the simple act of asking facilitative questions.
After years of nurturing high quality connections, we are sharing some of our favorite and most actionable tools: questions that open up rooms to new solutions.
The right questions allow us to harness what people know and understand and multiply it. After all, facilitation, at its core, converts the wisdom of individuals into the wisdom of the room. We have so much to learn from one another.
This winter and spring on our Instagram feed, we are offering facilitative prompts, and when to ask them with grace and purpose. We invite you to share your own responses and use them as tools in your organizations.
Join us on this journey to practice creating and asking good questions.
NOTE: Since we started this project, we’ve been introduced to additional resources for facilitative questions which include:
The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need by Museum Hack
Group Glue: The connective power of how simple questions lead to great conversations by Jeffrey T. Cook
We’ll keep a running list of our questions below as we post them.
