listening to other interviewers: GoraN Cars example ... Continued
Here are two more clips from the interview that John Forester conducted with Goran Cars. Both show how John draws out very concrete details of just what happened in this practice story
Segment #4: focusing on concrete action
In this segment, we see John continuing with the same type of questions to continue to draw out the story: "How did you handle that? Did you feel that was productive?" .... "What difference did that make?" Notice that when Goran pauses, John sometimes paraphrases some of what he has just heard as a way to encourage Goran continue talking without having to ask a new question.
Segment #5: continuing to focus on action
Notice that here, Goran tends to answer questions with a simple statement. John asks: "So what did you do then after you had the public meetings. Goran responds: "I went to the media, which I think is extraordinarily good." Rather than move on, assuming he understands, John probes for specifics: "You went to the media? What do you mean?" He continues to ask these kinds of questions: "And did what?" ... "What did you tell them?" ... "Wait, I need to know who said what." ... "What did he say?" ... Notice that sometimes Goran's answer is general. In response to "What did you do?", he replies, "I said I had a great story for you." But John probes further: "What did you tell him?" In fact, he repeats this question several times, and each time, we get a bit richer picture of what happened, that is, of what Goran actually said and did.
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