The key…

Ask the question and let the other person give you their answer.

No leading.
No prompting.
No interrupting. (You can do it.)

Below are 30 to get you started. When you have a moment, invest some time in creating a few that are specific to your industry. Memorize your favorites and practice delivering them with a colleague or a small group (especially before any upcoming events or tradeshows).

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Personal questions

How did you get involved in… ?
Who helped you get involved in…?
What were you doing previously?
What [did, do] you enjoy most about that?
What is the best thing you learned from that?
Where have you learned the most about…?
Who taught you the most about…?
What did you take away from the experience?
How has that impacted you?
What [was, is] the biggest challenge with that?
What advice would you give someone else about that?
What are your thoughts on…?

Business questions

How did your company get involved in…?
What kind of challenges are you and your company facing?
What’s the most important priority to you and your company right now?
How have you been handling that?
How is that working out?
What effect has that had on you/ your company?
How did you overcome that?
How does that process work now?
What challenges does that process create?
What are the best things about that process?
What does everyone else at your company think about that?
With whom have you had the most success in the past?
What innovative [products, services] has your company introduced over the last couple years?

General questions

What does that mean?
How do you mean?
How do you see that working?
What concerns do you have about…?
What other events have you found helpful to attend?

(remember: no leading… no prompting… no interrupting… seriously.)

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Get printable versions of Work Months (for cubes and bulletin boards).

To set a Work Month wallpaper as your desktop…

1. Choose an image
2. Click on the link that is closest to your screen’s resolution
3. Once it appears in your browser, right click on the image
4. Choose "set as background"

Those are your quarterly work days of opportunity for 2012 (251 in all… give or take a few here and there depending on where you are).

Roughly 21 days per month. (Put like that, it seems like so few, doesn’t it?)

To lose only two each month to fatigue or a desire to wait for a better day to do something, would be to lose more than a full month of work days each year.

Imagine if your income reflected your slow days (and know that it probably does).

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My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, I arranged them with that view, as they stand [below].

1. TEMPERANCE
   Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE
   Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid
   trifling conversation.
3. ORDER
   Let all your things have their places; let each part of
   your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION
   Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without
   fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY
   Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself;
   i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY
   Lose no time; be always employed in something
   useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY
   Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and,
   if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE
   Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits
   that are your duty.
9. MODERATION
   Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much
   as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS
    Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11. TRANQUILITY
    Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common
    or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY
    Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to
    dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s
    peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY
    Imitate Jesus and Socrates

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