David Farnsworth was a retired leadership and executive coach that spent years helping organization improve their interviewing skills through the 3D Interviewing method. He passed away in July 2020. In this episode David explains methods LDS leaders can use in order to improve the effectiveness of 1-to-1 interviews and class room teaching through effective questions.

Episode Highlights:

* (7:15) Why do I want to develop my interviewing skills?

* The question is how do you see your role?

* Understanding the leader's role in an interaction

* (11:35) The Fundamentals

* Be sincerely interested in others.

* Reading others accurately.

* Having the vocabulary to articulate.

* Be willing to be authentic and consistent.

* Having a good sense of ourselves (self-awareness).

* Trust others in their ability to respond.

* Not seeing yourself as the expert, but to uncouple yourself from having all the answers.

* (17:45) Drawing the Cube exercise

* (22:00) The Art of Formulating Focused Questions Preparing questions in advance.

* Draft good questions.

* Try to put them in a logical order.

* Examine questions carefully and fine-tune them.

* (29:45) Active Listening

* Paraphrase in your own words what the other person has just said:

* Leaving the other person in control allows you find out how they think, what they're feeling, etc.

* Three levels of paraphrasing:

* What was said? (make sure you're clear about what they've said).

* How was it said? (for example, "I can see this is difficult for you...").

* What was not said?

* Three reactions to paraphrasing - agreement, correction/clarification, or amplification.

* (44:20) Summarizing - different than paraphrasing.

* Pulling together the major points of the discussion or topic (your understanding of the discussion).

* Same three reactions to summarizing as paraphrasing (agreement, correction/clarification, or amplification).

* (52:45) Sequencing questions - Getting acquainted example.

* (55:00) Sequencing questions - Problem-solving example.

* (58:50) Sequencing questions - Classroom example.

* (67:00) How can I start interviewing using the 3D-I model?

* "After Action Review