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Find your most valuable question (MVQ)

Find your most valuable question (MVQ)

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Find your most valuable question (MVQ)

- When was the last time that you were in meeting, waiting to ask a question, and you're thinking, why haven't they thought of this? Or, I need to be involved in this process. Do they even know I'm here? Or, what the heck are they talking about? We've all been there, thinking these thoughts, pondering the right question. But how can you go from asking the right question to asking the best question, the most valuable question, at precisely the right time? The Move Valuable Question, or MVQ, is the one question that generates the answer that provides the most useful information. The MVQ yields the highest ROI, return on investment. MVQ opportunities pop up all the time. Often you'll have time to mull over the MVQ, like in a long meeting. Other times, you'll have one shot to ask an MVQ on the spot, like when you bump into a senior manager at the water cooler or a potential customer in the grocery store. To be ready to generate your MVQ at any time requires practice. Here are three steps…

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