Probing
These five probes can be arranged like this:
Open Questions
(Provide lots of information)
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Pauses
(Give the other person an opportunity to respond)
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Reflective Statements/Echoes
(Give the other person another opportunity to respond)
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Summary Probes
(Wind down probing)
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Fact-Finding or Closed Question
(To wrap up the conversation)