Cracking the Question Code

Here it is in brief: If you help people answer questions and solve problems, you will benefit from this meetup.

If you're a teacher, a parent, or a coach, you will benefit from this meetup.

If you're in sales, you will benefit from this meetup.

If you want any conversation you have to be more clear, precise, and powerful, you will benefit from this meetup.

They say "the map is not the territory." Or, "the menu is not the meal." How we talk about things doesn't describe those things perfectly...we describe them well enough to get our point across based on what we're thinking at the time.

Or so we think.

We are constantly deleting, distorting and generalizing as we think about the world and our place in it. This is actually a good thing. Think of all the time we'd waste if we had to consider every aspect of every door we encounter. Instead, we just think "door" and we can open it and walk through. It's when these deletions, distortions and generalizations make their way into our language, that can lead to some serious miscommunication.

In this meetup, we'll look at how to spot these shortcuts in speech, discover any underlying shortcuts in thinking, and crack the "question code" to reveal the territory behind the map.