Higher Education CoP - June 2019: Better Questions, Clearer Answers, Bigger Impact

Abstract

Today’s economy rewards organizations, leaders, and individuals who know how to quickly access and communicate their best thinking. Yet many of us believe that we can’t dramatically advance our analytic capability or learn to think more powerfully in collaboration with others. If you are buying into this myth, you aren’t tapping anywhere close to your or your organization’s full potential. Cutting-edge knowledge work asks for innovation amidst growing complexity, performance pressure, and distraction. In this demanding context, savvy questions and clear, concise answers are our most effective tools for improving focus, engagement, and execution. This seminar will introduce you to the Precision Q+A™ framework. Tested over two decades in some of the world’s most respected businesses and universities, the Precision Q+A™ framework teaches you how to bring the best of your analytic and social-emotional intelligence to the business problems your organization is tackling.

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will have a better understanding of:
Precision Q+A™, the most comprehensive analytic questioning framework available.
The seven categories of analytical questions.
The four techniques for answering questions clearly and concisely.
How Precision Q+A™ can help teams build their credibility and expand their knowledge sharing.

About the Speaker: Bob Stocking, MA, MSA

Bob Stocking, MA, MSA, is a Master Instructor at Vervago, creators of the Precision Q+A™ framework, and EnlivenWork, an organization dedicated to helping you flourish in your work. Bob has been an instructor for over 15 years, providing people with the tools to unlock their best thinking and be at their best every day. Bob facilitates workshops using both the Precision Q+A™ framework and the Reflected Best Self Exercise (RBSE), a tool developed at the University of Michigan that helps people learn, through stories, who they are at their best and how they can bring that best self to their work every day. From individual contributor to CEO, across organizations in 28 countries, 98% of Bob’s clients would recommend his trainings to a colleague. Bob earned both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from Stanford University, and a Master’s Degree in School Administration from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Location: The Chesterfield, 701 West Main Street, Durham NC 27701

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Paid Parking: Brightleaf Square Parking Lot, 905 West Main Street, Durham, NC

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Agenda:

Networking 3:00-3:30 PM

Seminar 3:30 - 5:00 PM