T.E.D

T.E.D.

A great technique to help the client talk more and share with you all their thinking and information is T.E.D. It is a model of open questions and focuses on the other person so they have an opportunity to fully explain the situation or their thinking.

‘T.E.D’ stands for:

T – Tell

E – Explain

D – Describe

This technique is often used in conjunction with a probing question. T.E.D is all about asking the right questions to get the right answers. By using these sentence starters, tell me, explain and describe for me, you set up a conversation to explore ideas and thinking and explore actions and behaviour. It works past assumptions to gather the full picture and allows people to fully explain and engage in the conversation.

Especially in emotional conversations it can sometimes be difficult to fully show someone’s thinking and this technique gives opportunity for that to happen.

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions”

These probing T.E.D questions help to pinpoint the relevant insight from a person.

Tell me is a general invite to start a conversation or to elaborate on a previously mentioned point.

Explain and Describe are used to get much more detailed and pointed information in degrees on an established point.