We have become more and more aware that asking questions are the cine qua non of building positive relationships. With the help of countless techniques and methods we think we know how to ask questions. However we often fail to accept our questions are just another form of telling - excepting the other party to hit the answer in our minds. In this workshop, we will help attendees increase their awareness of the oft-neglected foundations which play a key role in asking questions.

Program:

18:00-18:30 Registration

18:30-19:45 Oya Günay, Listening, Empathy, Feedback

19:45-20:00 Networking

About the Speaker

Oya Günay is an Executive Coach and Strategy Partner, working with leaders and senior corporate executives across Europe. She has more than 20 years of international business experience, specifically focused in financial services. During her time working in Istanbul, London and Vienna, Oya held the positions of Head of Investment Banking Operations, CFO and Regional Project Coordinator. This business background gave her great insights into the challenges, goals, and opportunities of local and global executives from a wide variety of countries and let her move into Executive Coaching and Strategy Partnership in working across cultures.

Because of her years of diverse executive experience in the business world, she is an expert in partnering with leaders and senior corporate executives on finding solutions to how to discover themselves, maximize their potentials and then move forward from the point where they are into the point where they aspire to be. Her expertise includes leadership development, cultural competency, conflict resolution and mediation, resilience and change management. Oya Günay is a certified Executive Coach of Columbia University, Business School and a certified Assessment Analyst on The Neethling Brain Instrument.

In addition to her role as an Executive Coach and Strategy Partner, she makes academic research on the foundations of intercultural interactions and writes articles in that regard. She teaches in some of the seminar programs organized by the Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey.

She lives in Vienna, Austria and speaks Turkish, English and German.

"The Art of Asking Questions": Understanding The Role of Curiosity in Questioning