Book description from publisher(AMACOM):

A fresh, impassioned guide on the art of question-asking with powerful examples to use in every workplace situation.

Do you know how to raise your IQQ? (Intelligent Questioning Quotient!)

It's not enough just to ask questions. It's knowing which questions to ask and how to ask them that gets you results--in the form of better information, enhanced career prospects, and more competitive organizations.

Written by a seasoned business reporter and manager, this provocative "questioning manifesto" and practical "how-to" book gives people the insights and tools to ask effective questions that get results in every realm of their professional lives. It is also a powerful tool that will help business leaders create a progressive environment where questions flow freely and creatively--boosting knowledge and performance at all levels of the organization.

Best yet, the book supplies hundreds of carefully crafted questions that readers can use to find the right job, negotiate salary and benefits, inspire creativity within a group, make a better presentation, get a promotion, and much more.

When peple master the art of asking smart, meaningful questions, they not only make an excellent impression, they also improve their performance. In the words of the author: "Your success depends on what questions you ask. Workers of the world, question!"

Table of Contents

Part I: A Questioning Manifesto
1. The Essential Skill
2. Why We Don’t Ask Questions
3. The Questioning Culture
4. Learning a Skill
5. Raising Your IQQ: Seven Steps to Better Questions

Part II: New Work—New Questions
6. Questions That Work When: Looking for a Job
7. Questions That Work When: Taking On a New Job or Career Change

Part III: Questions at Work
8. Questions That Work When: Selling and Negotiating
9. Questions That Work When: Creativity and New Thinking Are Needed
10. Questions That Work When: Meeting and Planning
11. Questions That Work When: Hiring and Managing
12. Questions That Work When: Managing Your Career

Part IV: Crisis Questions
13. Questions That Work When: Dealing with a Problem
14. Questions That Work When: Fired or Laid Off
15. Questions That Work When: Put On the Spot

Part V: Questions When On Your Own
16. Questions That Work When: Starting Your Own Business
17. Questions That Work When: You Are Educating Yourself
18. Questions That Work When: Dealing with Real Estate
19. Questions That Work When: Hiring a Service

Part VI: Leaders and Questions
20. Questions That Work When: Leading the Way

Conclusion
Questioning Workshop