PMO professionals are often expected to provide answers, but some of the greatest value comes from knowing which questions to ask.

Asking powerful questions is a core skill within the PMO Competency Framework: the ability to ask searching and provocative questions that make people think more deeply and create greater clarity. It is also fundamental to being an effective critical friend – challenging assumptions, testing thinking, improving understanding and helping people make better decisions.

In this 60-minute webinar, we’ll explore how powerful questioning can be used in everyday PMO work, from checking the quality of information and understanding what the data is really telling us, through to challenging priorities, assumptions, investment decisions and strategic choices.

We’ll look at what makes a question genuinely powerful, how to challenge without becoming confrontational, and why good questioning has to be combined with curiosity, judgement and active listening. We’ll also explore how the skill develops across all four PMO roles – PMO Administrator, PMO Analyst, PMO Manager and PMO Director – with practical examples of the questions each might ask.

Because sometimes the most valuable contribution a PMO can make isn’t having the answer – it’s having the question.

This session is also a perfect event for anyone attending this year’s PMO Insight Conference too.