Lead to the Right Answers! Questioning Skills Enhancement Training: Seminar by Takuro Yamaguchi, Director of 'Tsutaeru Chikara [Hanasu Kaku] Kenkyusho' / Head of Takuro Yamaguchi Writing Salon, to be held on Thursday, June 11, 2026!!
Shinsakai System Sogo Kenkyusho (SSK) will host a 'Questioning Skills Enhancement Training' seminar on June 11, 2026, featuring Takuro Yamaguchi as lecturer. This seminar will impart the importance of questioning in business and practical know-how, providing skills useful for information gathering, goal achievement, and building human relationships.
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[Seminar Details]
https://www.ssk21.co.jp/S0000103.php?spage=pt_26266
[SSK Seminar]
Practical know-how taught by a questioning professional who has interviewed over 3,800 people
Lead to the Right Answers! Questioning Skills Enhancement Training
~Practical know-how applicable to all tasks starting today~
[Lecturer]
Director, Tsutaeru Chikara [Hanasu Kaku] Kenkyusho
Head, Takuro Yamaguchi Writing Salon
Mr. Takuro Yamaguchi
[Date & Time]
Thursday, June 11, 2026, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
[How to Attend]
■ Live Streaming (Zoom Webinar)
■ Archive Streaming (Available for viewing at your convenience for two weeks, unlimited times)
[What you will gain from this seminar]
・Mindset necessary to improve questioning skills
・How to develop 'questioning thinking'
・Skills to formulate questions by reverse-engineering from objectives
・Questioning techniques to elicit high-resolution information
・Skills to organize input information
・Methods of 'coaching questions' for development
[Key Lecture Contents]
No matter how specialized your knowledge or skills, if your questioning ability is low, you cannot elicit useful information, discern fundamental issues, or build trust. In the workplace, 'questioning skills' are required to accurately extract necessary information according to the situation.
This training will provide practical know-how that can be used from day one, from the mindset for becoming a questioning expert to 'reverse-engineering questions' for achieving goals, and a list of useful questions for work. Please use it in all tasks, such as interactions between superiors and subordinates, client interviews, meetings, sales activities, and generative AI utilization.
◆ Prologue
(1) Why questioning skills are important
(2) The role of questioning skills in business
1. The essence of questioning and mindset shift
・Breaking out of your comfort zone
・Two common strengths of questioning experts
└ Proactivity / Resolution
・Enhancing the resolution of your own work [Exercise]
・Transforming 'doubts' into 'questions'
└ A question is 'purposeful verbalization'
2. Questioning techniques for 'information gathering'
・Increasing resolution with '5W4H'
・Interviewing with '5W4H' [Exercise]
・Self-questioning methods usable for writing
・Questions that move between 'abstract ⇔ concrete'
3. Question patterns usable in business
・Questions that re-examine assumptions
・Approaching the essence with 'Why?'
・Translating into action with 'How?'
・Expanding possibilities with 'What if~?'
・Organizing key points with 'In short?'
・20 general questions usable in business [Exercise]
4. Goal-achieving question design method
・Enhancing goal achievement ability with 'reverse-engineering questions'
└ ① Clarification of objectives
└ ② Grasping the current situation and issues
└ ③ Arranging questions in an easy-to-answer format
・Designing reverse-engineering questions [Exercise]
・Question design for generative AI utilization
5. Questions that move people
・List of 'bad questions' to avoid
・Coaching questions for leaders
・How to formulate 'inner questions' that move your life
6. Q&A
[Contact Information]
Shinsakai System Sogo Kenkyusho
Zymax Nishishinbashi Bldg. 4F, 2-6-2 Nishishinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Email: info@ssk21.co.jp
TEL: 03-5532-8850
FAX: 03-5532-8851
URL: https://www.ssk21.co.jp
[About Shinsakai System Sogo Kenkyusho (SSK)]
Shinsakai System Sogo Kenkyusho (SSK) was established on December 6, 1996, and for over 28 years since its founding, its main business has been providing information services, planning and holding approximately 500 corporate business seminars annually.
SSK seminars aim to contribute to the creation of business opportunities by speedily providing high-level management strategy information, marketing information, technology information, etc., in a diversifying business environment.
In addition, SSK develops various businesses centered on its seminar business, providing information and services necessary for customers' business success and expansion, such as seminar planning and operation agency services, lecturer dispatch, B2B advertising, commissioned research, market research report sales, and on-demand seminar sales.
SSK constantly disseminates cutting-edge information and continues to be a strategic partner for its customers.
https://www.ssk21.co.jp/S0000103.php?spage=pt_26266
[SSK Seminar]
Practical know-how taught by a questioning professional who has interviewed over 3,800 people
Lead to the Right Answers! Questioning Skills Enhancement Training
~Practical know-how applicable to all tasks starting today~
[Lecturer]
Director, Tsutaeru Chikara [Hanasu Kaku] Kenkyusho
Head, Takuro Yamaguchi Writing Salon
Mr. Takuro Yamaguchi
[Date & Time]
Thursday, June 11, 2026, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
[How to Attend]
■ Live Streaming (Zoom Webinar)
■ Archive Streaming (Available for viewing at your convenience for two weeks, unlimited times)
[What you will gain from this seminar]
・Mindset necessary to improve questioning skills
・How to develop 'questioning thinking'
・Skills to formulate questions by reverse-engineering from objectives
・Questioning techniques to elicit high-resolution information
・Skills to organize input information
・Methods of 'coaching questions' for development
[Key Lecture Contents]
No matter how specialized your knowledge or skills, if your questioning ability is low, you cannot elicit useful information, discern fundamental issues, or build trust. In the workplace, 'questioning skills' are required to accurately extract necessary information according to the situation.
This training will provide practical know-how that can be used from day one, from the mindset for becoming a questioning expert to 'reverse-engineering questions' for achieving goals, and a list of useful questions for work. Please use it in all tasks, such as interactions between superiors and subordinates, client interviews, meetings, sales activities, and generative AI utilization.
◆ Prologue
(1) Why questioning skills are important
(2) The role of questioning skills in business
1. The essence of questioning and mindset shift
・Breaking out of your comfort zone
・Two common strengths of questioning experts
└ Proactivity / Resolution
・Enhancing the resolution of your own work [Exercise]
・Transforming 'doubts' into 'questions'
└ A question is 'purposeful verbalization'
2. Questioning techniques for 'information gathering'
・Increasing resolution with '5W4H'
・Interviewing with '5W4H' [Exercise]
・Self-questioning methods usable for writing
・Questions that move between 'abstract ⇔ concrete'
3. Question patterns usable in business
・Questions that re-examine assumptions
・Approaching the essence with 'Why?'
・Translating into action with 'How?'
・Expanding possibilities with 'What if~?'
・Organizing key points with 'In short?'
・20 general questions usable in business [Exercise]
4. Goal-achieving question design method
・Enhancing goal achievement ability with 'reverse-engineering questions'
└ ① Clarification of objectives
└ ② Grasping the current situation and issues
└ ③ Arranging questions in an easy-to-answer format
・Designing reverse-engineering questions [Exercise]
・Question design for generative AI utilization
5. Questions that move people
・List of 'bad questions' to avoid
・Coaching questions for leaders
・How to formulate 'inner questions' that move your life
6. Q&A
[Contact Information]
Shinsakai System Sogo Kenkyusho
Zymax Nishishinbashi Bldg. 4F, 2-6-2 Nishishinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Email: info@ssk21.co.jp
TEL: 03-5532-8850
FAX: 03-5532-8851
URL: https://www.ssk21.co.jp
[About Shinsakai System Sogo Kenkyusho (SSK)]
Shinsakai System Sogo Kenkyusho (SSK) was established on December 6, 1996, and for over 28 years since its founding, its main business has been providing information services, planning and holding approximately 500 corporate business seminars annually.
SSK seminars aim to contribute to the creation of business opportunities by speedily providing high-level management strategy information, marketing information, technology information, etc., in a diversifying business environment.
In addition, SSK develops various businesses centered on its seminar business, providing information and services necessary for customers' business success and expansion, such as seminar planning and operation agency services, lecturer dispatch, B2B advertising, commissioned research, market research report sales, and on-demand seminar sales.
SSK constantly disseminates cutting-edge information and continues to be a strategic partner for its customers.