An application of #CleanLanguage to help people get the most out of networking at an in-person event. We used some Clean Language Questions and the Liberating Structure 1-2-4-all

1. Meta-Networking with Clean Language
Judy Rees @judyrees

2. For you, networking at its best is like…
what?
No right or wrong answers!

3. Asking Clean Language Questions
• For you, networking at its best is like… what?
• Starter question only
• What kind of X?
• Is there anything else about X?
• “X” represents one or more of the other person’s words
• Ask the questions in any order, about any of their words, as many times as you like
• Aim to add no other words
• Keep going until it’s time to swap over

4. What difference do these questions
make?
To the answerer? To the asker?

5. Listen
Be distracted
Listen

6. “The quality of your attention can
determine the quality of another
person’s thought” Nancy Kline

7. For you to enjoy networking like that,
you need to be like… what?
No right or wrong answers!

8. Asking Clean Language Questions
• For you to enjoy networking like that, you need to be
like… what?
• Starter question only
• What kind of X?
• Is there anything else about X?
• “X” represents one or more of the other person’s words
• Ask the questions in any order, about any of their words, as many times as you like
• Aim to add no other words
• Keep going until it’s time to swap over

9. What needs to happen for you to be like
that?
Make a short list

10. What’s one tip you’ll give to someone
else from this event?

11. Learn more at: judyrees.co.uk
Twitter @judyrees
Article series: bit.ly/InfoQRemoteMeetings