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Tip 483. Establish rapport by asking questions.
Tip 484. Solicit feedback by asking questions.
Tip 485. Encourage buy-in action by asking questions.
Tip 486. Ask questions to lead others to analyze their own suggestions.
Tip 487. Analyze your own ideas with the five W questions.
Tip 488. Stimulate creative thinking with what-if questions.
Tip 489. Plant your own ideas with questions.
Tip 490. Persuade people by asking questions.
Tip 491. Ask questions to uncover resistance.
Tip 492. Move people from the emotional level to the analytical level (or vice versa) with questions.
Tip 493. Resist demands or commands by using questions.
Tip 494. Find commonalities with questions.
Tip 495. Reduce your anxiety by asking questions.
Tip 496. Use questions to stall.
Tip 497. Use questions to guide conversations.
Tip 498. Pose questions as fun.
Tip 499. Use questions as a display of control.
Tip 500. Use why questions with care.
Tip 501. Avoid trapping people with questions.
Tip 502. Avoid questions that accuse.
Tip 503. Don't demand with questions.
Tip 504. Don't use a question as a dare.
Tip 505. Don't design multiple-choice questions when both choices are wrong.
Tip 506. Don't use show-off questions.
Tip 507. Don't overpower the opposition with questions.
Tip 508. To express opinions, make statements rather than hide opinions in questions.
Tip 509. Use a pause instead of a question.
Tip 510. Use the echo technique.
Tip 511. Remind others that it's okay not to have answers to your questions.
Tip 512. Adopt the Ben Franklin perspective.
Tip 513. Use the SEER technique.
Tip 514. Use the genesis technique.
Tip 515. Answer one question at a time; avoid multiples.
Tip 516. Remember that few questions are "off the record."
Tip 517. Probe for the real interest or concern behind hypothetical questions.
Tip 518. Expand your options on forced, two-option questions.
Tip 519. Help the questioner bogged down in a rambling, long-winded question.
Tip 520. Stop your own monologue answers.

 
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