Developing Questioning Skills

In action learning, groups concentrate on building their questioning skills and extending the range of questions available to them in order to probe deeply into the complex problems which form the basis of their work. Action learning contrasts procedural knowledge where we already know what to do, with the ambiguity of the typical action learning problem chosen precisely because we need to explore what to do and perhaps even learn new skills in order to solve the problem. In this instance, new insights come from effective questioning. Some types of questions useful for action learning are: