The Art of Asking Better Questions

Steven Campbell-Harris

Recording: YesLanguage: EnglishDuration: 45 min / 15 minSpeaker rating: 4.3 out of 5 from 31 participants across all their sessions
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The Art of Asking Better Questions
Steven Campbell-Harris
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Steven Campbell-Harris

As a philosopher, facilitator, and writer, Steven specialises in helping businesses and professionals unlock their full potential by improving how they think. At The School of Life and Philosophy at Work, he empowers individuals and teams to solve problems more effectively, make better decisions, and work more cohesively. His sessions are designed to be practical and engaging, offering actionable insights that participants can immediately apply to their work and lives.

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Session Summary

We often think innovation begins with a brilliant idea, but the real breakthrough usually comes earlier. As Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, put it: ‘What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question’.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, the pressure to react quickly often crowds out deeper thinking. Yet the leaders who create progress aren’t the ones with all the answers - they’re the ones asking better questions.

This session focuses on how to move from reactive decision making to deliberate thinking. You’ll explore how asking the right question can unlock clarity, shift perspectives, and lead toyour next big breakthrough.

Interaction

During the expert session, Steven Campbell-Harris engages the audience through a Q&A session and the Mentimeter app.

Key Learnings

Question With Purpose

learn how to use questions not just to gather information, but to slow thinking down, sharpen insight, and improve the quality of decisions

Expand Your Field of Vision

practise asking breakthrough questions that uncover blind spots and create new opportunities

Stop problems before they happen

develop upstream questioning strategies that prevent rework, clarify expectations early, and keep teams focused on what really matters

Before you book

Questions about The Art of Asking Better Questions

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: We often think innovation begins with a brilliant idea, but the real breakthrough usually comes earlier. As Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, put it: ‘What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question’.

Is Steven the right expert for this?

Steven Campbell-Harris is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.0 out of 5, across 31 responses, and rate Steven personally 4.3 out of 5.

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Steven, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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