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Blog Post 🗒:  Ask Your Employees These Questions To Improve Workplace Culture & Team Performance 

BEST-SELF MANAGEMENT

• What type of work drains your energy?
• What type of work energizes you?
• After work/ on the weekends, it is important for me to…
•  What company value did you embrace this week?
• Are you clear on the company mission and how your work helps push it forward?
• Where do you experience a skills gap that prevents you from reaching your goals? How do you suggest we can help you close the gap?
• What’s one thing you need from someone else on your team to be more successful? @mention them here.
• What makes it easy to show up as your Best-Self? What conditions need to be present?
• Do any of your Objectives lack personal meaning, or interest for you?
• Which of your Objectives interest and excite you the most?
• What self-care did you do this week? How did you rejuvenate, relax, meditate or exercise?
• Where did you find meaning in your work this week?
• Did you experience a flow state this week where you were completely absorbed in your work, lost track of time, and experienced work with effortlessness and ease? If not, when was the last time you did experience this?
• What positive emotions did you experience at work this week? What led to the experience(s)?
• In the interest of countering negativity bias, please share gratitude for something positive that happened in life or at work this week.
• Where does negativity bias (focusing on unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) show up in your life or at work?
• On a scale of 1-5 (strongly agree to strongly disagree), how would you rate your ability to show up as your Best-Self over the last week?
• What one thing did you do this week to step closer to becoming your Best-Self? (i.e. learning, growing, and developing your innate strengths and talents.)
• Did you support anyone in becoming their Best-Self this week? If so, how? (i.e. supporting them in learning, growing, and developing their innate strengths and talents.)

CAREER TRAJECTORY

• Do you have a current job description? If not, are you clear what's expected of you in your role?

COACHING

• What could distract you next week from making progress on your goals? How could you minimize those distractions?
• What do you want to be able to do in 6 months that you can't do now?
• Are you fully bought into and motivated by your objectives? How personally meaningful are they to you?
• Do you have a current job description? If not, are you clear what's expected of you in your role?
• If you could choose anyone to coach you on any topic, who would it be and why?
• What’s an additional skill you'd like to learn that would help you in your career? How could it help?
• Are you clear on our overall strategy as a company and how you fit into it? If not, what's not clear?
• What leads you to do your best work (eg. environment, tools, etc)?

Blog post 🗒: What Can Leaders Do To Drive Employee Career Development? 

CULTURE BUILDING

• How might we build a stronger culture as a distributed team?

CULTURE + VALUES

• How good are we at open and honest communication as a company?  What could we do to encourage more of it?
• Which of our core values are we doing a great job of living? How so?
• Which of our core values could we be doing a better job of living, and how?
• Who do you want to get to know better in the company? @mention them here to set up a coffee (or virtual coffee).

DEPARTMENT

All

• What's your confidence level in our ability to execute as a company?
• Are there any process improvements we can make as a team?
• Are you inspired by the work you're doing in your role?

Customer Success

• What are the major concerns you're hearing from our customers?

Engineering

• Are you being given enough time to study the horizon of a given language? Are you being given enough experimentation time?

People Ops

• Are you clear on what it means to be a great manager in our company?
• What data have you used to influence any people decisions lately?

Product

• Whats an interesting metric you've looked at or want to look at this week?

GOALS + OKRs

• Do you feel like you're doing too much work that's nonessential to achieving your main objectives? If so, how can we change that?
• Are you clear on our overall strategy as a company and how you fit into it? If not, what's not clear?

Blog post 🗒: Being Successful With OKRs Requires Better Communication

INNOVATION

• How can we become the company that would put us out of business?
• What would you change about our company or product if you had a magic wand?

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

• Do you feel like our 1:1's go beyond status updates and get to talk about your growth and development in the company?
• What’s an additional skill you'd like to learn that would help you in your career? How could it help?

QUESTIONS FOR MANAGERS

• What is your least favorite part about being a manager? How do you handle that?
• What’s the best idea or suggestion you’ve heard from your team lately?

   
• What’s one thing we could do for you to help improve the performance of your team?
• Are you clear on what it means to be a great manager in our company?

RECOGNITION + APPRECIATION

• Is there anything you would like to be acknowledged for?
• What are the elements of a great a High Five?

REMOTE TEAMS

• How might we build a stronger culture as a distributed team?
• Do you have any feedback for me, your manager?
• Do you feel supported by the team so that you could go to anyone asking them for help?
• Do you feel like you have opportunities for “water-cooler” type discussions with the team to help you spur on ideas?
• How could I better support our remote team?
• Do you think our decision-making process works effectively while also supporting our remote culture? Have you seen a decision drag out for too long lately?
• Are our meetings friendly to remote folks like you? What could we improve?
• What challenges do you feel you have compared to those in the office?
• How do you manage distractions during the day? Is it a challenge for you?
• Who do you go to when you need support or have process suggestions or improvement ideas?
• Which coworkers or departments do you wish you had more connection with?
• What do you do to take breaks/recharge?
• What technology issues have you encountered?
• What equipment or process improvements would make things 10% better?
• Have you been pleasantly surprised by anything lately?
• What do you like to do when you’re not working?
• What is your favorite element of remote work? What is your least favorite?
• What value do you get out of the daily/weekly call? How would you feel if we held it less frequently?
• How have you improved your remote working skills this month? Have you identified any challenges?
• Since we are now a predominantly a remote team, what do you think could help us to improve daily communication?
• How might we build a stronger culture as a distributed team?

ROADBLOCKS

• Are you fully bought into and motivated by your objectives? How personally meaningful are they to you?
• Are there any projects or issues that you are worried about in either the short or long term?

PAST QUESTION BANK QUESTIONS

• What's the best thing that happened in your personal life this week?
• What's keeping you up at night?
• What's something new you recently learned about yourself? Where do you find inspiration?
• Happiness score ­ On a scale of 0 to 10, how happy were you at work this week?
• Happiness reasons ­ What are the one or two primary reasons for your rating?
• One thing (outside of work) you did this week that made you smile? What gets you out of bed in the morning?
• Did you learn anything new or awesome this week that you'd like to try or share with the team?
• What deals did you move forward in the pipeline this week?
• Please list your top priorities for next week. Feel free to use single words or short phrases.
• What is one pain point our users are experiencing the most this week?
• Did you feel like you had a productive week? How can you make it even more productive next week?
• What projects are on hold (you are waiting for something)?
• Please describe three high impact items/goals that you would like to achieve next week.
• Please describe the outcome of last week's high impact items/goals.
• If any of your prospects described or mentioned a competitor last week, who was that competitor(s)?
• As a manager, name one decision you made this week to improve the quality of the product that we provide?
• Are you satisfied with the volume of work you have right now?
• How many adjustments/corrections did you have to make this week? (Would be helpful tracking errors and asking follow up questions on how to improve upon those errors. and sharing with the team)
• On a scale of 1 - 10, how well did we work as a team this week?
• On a 1-5 scale, how confident are you about what others are working on?
• How sustainable is your current workload?
• What % of your time is done doing super busy work that isn’t high leverage? Follow up: how can we alleviate your busy work? How slammed are you on a scale of 1-5?
• Are there any projects or issues that you are worried about in either the short or long term? (yes/no) If yes, please explain. What percentage of the time did you spend working ‘in the zone’ (uninterrupted productive time) this week?
• On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, how motivated do you feel this week?
• On a scale of 1-10, how well do we live up to our values as a company?
• How well do we do at encouraging our value [core value]?
• How many times did you have lunch or a drink with a co-worker this week?
• On a scale of 1 to 10, how comfortable do you feel giving upwards feedback to your supervisor?
• Do you have fun at work?
• Our company provides a culture in which I can thrive.
• Where is your fun meter at?
• How effective would you rate the team meetings? (opinion scale), Follow-up question: What could we do differently to be more effective next month?
• On a scale of 1 to 10: I know how my role contributes to the overall mission and success of the company.
• I understand how my work directly contributes to the overall success of the organization.
• On a scale of 1 to 10 please rate this organization on how well we've been able to contribute to your personal & professional growth?
• How much time every week do you devote to your own development?
• I believe there are good career opportunities for me at [Company].
• [Company] is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development.
• I am given opportunities to develop skills relevant to my interests.
• My manager (or someone in management) has shown a genuine interest in my career aspirations.
• Do you believe you'll be able to reach your full potential here?
• If you were given the chance, would you reapply to your current job?
• I am encouraged to learn from my mistakes.
• I'm enjoying my job more this year than I did last year.
• On a scale of 1 to 10, how happy are you at work?
• On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your work-life balance?
• I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me.
• Are you proud to be a member of your team?
• The environment in this organization supports a balance between work and personal life.
• I like my office.
• On a scale of 1-10 (10 being best) do you feel your contributions this week were appreciated by your team? By the organization?
• Do you feel valued at work?
• How frequently do you receive recognition from your manager?
• The leaders at [Company] demonstrate that people are important to the company’s success.
• I have confidence in the leaders at [Company].
• The leaders at [Company] have communicated a vision that motivates me.
• Do you believe the leadership team takes your feedback seriously?
• [Company] effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals.
• At [Company] there is open and honest two-way communication.
• [Company] really allows us to make a positive difference.
• On a scale of 1 to 10, how comfortable do you feel giving upwards feedback to your supervisor?