How do you ask a smart question in a meeting?

5 Tips For Asking Smart Questions In Meetings

Prepare. Kind of obvious, right?
Know your meeting presenter or host. What does their reputation say about what’s important to them?
Uncover more with open-ended questions.
Take notes by hand.
Never apologize for asking a question.

What are question techniques?

Questions are a powerful way of: Learning: ask open and closed questions, and use probing questioning. Relationship building: people generally respond positively if you ask about what they do or enquire about their opinions. Managing and coaching: here, rhetorical and leading questions are useful too.

How do you ask insightful questions?

Have fun!

Know what you want to know and choose carefully. Quite obvious, but insanely important nonetheless; why are you asking questions?
Ask open questions — but not always.
Be mindful of how much you are steering.
Go with the flow.
Less is more.
Listen actively.
Create safety.
Have a deeper conversation — or not.

What are examples of open-ended questions?

Examples of open-ended questions:

Tell me about your relationship with your supervisor.
How do you see your future?
Tell me about the children in this photograph.
What is the purpose of government?
Why did you choose that answer?

What are insightful questions?

Insightful questions indicate that a student has an idea or a problem on which he is working, and wants to learn more about it. The student wants to explore and broaden his ideas. He wants someone to help him think through his ideas or problems on his own.

What are open and closed questions?

Open-ended questions are questions that allow someone to give a free-form answer. Closed-ended questions can be answered with “Yes” or “No,” or they have a limited set of possible answers (such as: A, B, C, or All of the Above).