Ask Better Questions - Frame, Guide & Focus

Permission slips to have more human conversations.

By Elliott Callender, founder and CEO of Nodeunlock.

What is it?

The series giving you permission to have more human conversations.

A 28 card deck, in a three-part series of intentional questions and a guidebook. It begins by giving you permission to think deeper, and ends in you looking beyond what a human may usually share.

Who is it for?

Anyone who:

+ Struggles to come up with questions with deeper meaning and added value in the spur of the moment.

+ Wants to focus, achieve and understand more without getting lost down unhelpful paths.

+ Hates small talk and wishes a conversation could be instantly more meaningful.

+ Wishes they had permission to ask questions you might not otherwise ask.

How to use it:

A tool anyone can use in their personal or professional life.

+ Prepare intentional questions for an important conversation

+ Use them as a prompt during conversations

+ Use them after your conversation to keep the human connection and relationship alive 

+ Ask better questions in conversations with friends and family

+ Explore, learn and grow as a team during team meetings and get-togethers

+ Have more intentional conversations with humans you admire or would like to get to know on a deeper level

+ Build trust and understanding by asking the same questions over a period of time

+ Focus and frame a conversation in a helpful direction

+ Guide your thoughts when approaching a challenge, new idea or project

What it'll teach you:

+ How to get straight to deeper discussion.

+ How to bring structure to your conversations.

+ How to outsource your permission to ask questions you might not otherwise ask.

+ How to have more human conversations with anyone you meet.

Example questions in each deck.

Sample from the guidebook.