Precision questioning (PQ), an intellectual toolkit for critical thinking and for problem solving, grew out of a collaboration between Dennis Matthies (1946- ) and Dr. Monica Worline, while both taught/studied[when?]
Precision questioning seeks to enable its practitioners with a highly structured, one-question/one-answer discussion format to help them: PQ focuses on clearly expressing gaps in thinking by coupling a taxonomy of analytical questions with a structured call-and-response model to enable PQ practitioners to uncover weaknesses in thinking and to raise the intellectual level of a conversation.
Precision questioning holds to the ideal of meeting one's own needs for information while also respecting the intellectual integrity of the conversation-partner.
Proselytizing for precision questioning on a commercial basis continues via the Vervago company,[1] co-founded by Matthies and Worline.
[2] Tens of thousands of people in universities and companies throughout the world have studied different versions of precision questioning.