Today I’m borrowing a post from online information marketer Alex Mandossian. He’s sharing the 4 conversation questions that guided his 1,200 tele-interviews. I see another practical application for these great questions.
Not many people get interviewed, but lots of us teach or train others. It could be as informal as helping the kids with their homework or coaching their soccer team. It could be as formal as writing an office manual or teaching our employees to give good customer service.
As you read Alex’s blog post (below) about how to conduct an interview, think about you could use his 4 conversation questions to improve your own teaching skills.
The first question is a WHY question. When I was 12 and attempting to waltz in cotillion classes, I didn’t see the why of it. It wasn’t learning; it was going through the motions. CLUNK, clunk, clunk. CLUNK, clunk, clunk. I would have tried harder if someone had explained to me that I would enjoy waltzing to country music in my 40s and 50s. (Is it asking too much of a dance teacher to predict the future?)
To borrow from Nietzsche: He who has a why to learn, can bear with almost any how.
And now, here’s Alex:
The 4 Most Reliable Tele-Interview Questions
Whenever I conduct a Teleseminar interview with a thought leader in my area of interest, I often lean on the four learning styles that researcher David Kolb discovered in the 1980s.
Your listening audiences typically fit into four distinct learning styles Kolb uncovered and they are: WHY learners, WHAT learners, HOW learners and WHAT IF learners.
Which of the four learning styles do you feel that you fit into?
Regardless of your learning style, I believe anyone can become a great interviewer if they …
Read the rest of Alex’s post here. Then please leave your comments below.
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