Conversation Skills: Asking Questions in Conversation

Asking questions makes conversations more engaging and helps build rapport. The type, tone, timing, and framing of questions all influence the quality of a conversation. Questions should be respectful and suit the situation and your relationship with the other person. In this course, psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry use real conversations to explain different types of questions and how to use them effectively. Learn how to ask a variety of questions — closed, open, tag, and follow-up — to make your conversations more interesting and successful.