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Questions to Avoid in Small Group Discussions

September 20, 2017 By Peter Krol

Melissa Kruger has some helpful thoughts on the types of questions that tend to stifle conversation in small group settings:

  1. Questions with an obvious answer
  2. Questions with a one-word answer
  3. Questions only researchers could answer
  4. Application questions that get too personal too quickly

My co-blogger Ryan has written helpful posts on how to ask good observation, interpretation, and application questions—right along these lines Kruger hopes to avoid.

Kruger has some helpful explanation. Check it out!

HT: Jake Swink

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