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Want To Conduct A Highly Professional Interview?
Follow My Ten Steps to Impress Your Subject and Audience
As a long-term professional writer, I have studied how to conduct an excellent interview.
What? Prepare to interview someone? Don’t you just ask questions?
Yes, and a whole lot more.
Think about this. When you listen to Terry Gross from NPR, or even Steven Kolbert, Jon Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, David Frost, and others, the questions seem to come freely and seamlessly out of their mouths, and they are good, provocative questions.
Believe me they did not just spring up out of nowhere. And, the interviewer didn’t just show up to the interview with no preparation and just started asking questions. To be honest, at their level they probably had people do research for them, especially if the interviewee wrote a book. But, the fact remains, these professionals had a list of questions created from doing research on the topic and the person.
Conducting a really good interview and getting those great questions takes work but by preparing separates you from the novices.
If you want to be a professional and get great info from your subject you need to follow a few important rules.
