Question Time

Welcome to the KUW Insight Podcast. Today’s insight is titled Question Time; written by Ade Ojomo and read by Morenike Olubode

Transcript

Music Starts  Welcome to the KUW Insight Podcast. Today’s insight is titled Question Time; written by Ade Ojomo and read by Morenike Olubode 

Discussion Points

1. Have you attended an interview?
2. Have you ever interviewed anyone?
3. Were the objectives of the interview realised? 

As a consultant, I have had the privilege of interacting with colleagues who are experts at communicating during interviews and negotiating with clients.  Good communicators go one step further by responding to questions by asking questions.

The advantage of this method, if used effectively, is the following:  · Stimulate the clients thinking · Guide them in exploring the wider scope of the issue · Supports the client in providing the answer to their own questions · thinking that it guides the client to understand and provide the answers to their own questions. 

We see the art of great communication using questions to answer a question utilised by Jesus in Luke 20 verses 22 – 25: 

“Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” He saw through their duplicity and said to them, “Show me a denarius. Whose portrait and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. He said to them, “Then give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” 

Another example is seen in Matthew 21 verses 23 – 27: 

Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?”  Jesus replied, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.  John’s baptism—where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?”  They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’  But if we say, ‘Of human origin’—we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet.”  So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.   

Points to Ponder
1. As an interviewer and interviewee, observation is a key skill required.
2. Sometimes, the answer lies in one’s silence
3. Listening involves discernment of what is on the other person’s heart

Goodbye and until the next KUW Insight 

Shalom – Love Never Fails

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