To keep your check-ins fresh, choose a different question each time you have a meeting. Some suggestions:
Questions for newly-forming groups
- What were you really into when you were a kid?
- What is a fashion trend you are really glad went away?
- What has been the highlight of your week so far?
- What pet(s) did you have as a kid or want to have?
- Do you like your first name? Do you know who named you or what your name means?
- What’s the most beautiful place near where you live?
Questions to get to know each other better professionally
- Where would you like to see your career go? What are your ambitions?
- What inspires you at work and in your personal life?
- What do you want to be known for professionally?
- What would you be doing if you didn’t have this job?
- What are you wanting from your career?
- What about your job drains your energy?
- How do you recharge?
- What quality in you would you hate to see emulated by your fellow team members?
- What talent do you have that you’re not able to use much on this team?
- How do you behave when you’re stressed out or burnt out?
- If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?
Questions to mine for issues or potential problems
- What are your fears about our current project?
- What is holding us back as a team?
- If our team were to lose all funding in six months or a year, what would you want us to accomplish before then?
- If you were to build our organisation from scratch, what three values would you try to instill into the culture?
- What do you wish our team had the opportunity to work on?
- What do others think about our team but don’t say out loud?
- What impact do you think our team has had on the organization in the last six months?
- How should our success be measured?
- What do you think this team fears most?
Questions to warm up creativity
- What super power would you like to have and why?
- What’s your favourite joke, pun, funny video or other thing that makes you laugh?
- What would a perfect day look like for you when you’re 90?
- If you could choose an imaginary friend to be with you today, who or what would you choose?
- If you had to live underground for a month, how would you prepare?
- If you could change the name of one of the planets which would you choose and what name would you use instead?
- If you were a candy bar, what candy bar would you be?
- If you had intro music, what would it be?
- What do you fear might be hiding in that cabinet, behind that door, in the dark?
- What feature do you wish your phone had?
Questions to help celebrate the team
- What are our team’s greatest strengths?
- What should our theme song be?
- If you could send us all on a trip somewhere, where would it be?
- What makes us successful?
- If the organisation was going to hold a comedic roast in our honour, what would the jokes be about?
- What could other teams learn from ours?
- What have you learned from working on this team that you will take to the next team you work on?
- If a filmmaker was making a short documentary about our team, what would be the highlights?
- What else could our team take on? What new challenge should we face?
- If we could have a team mascot, what should it be?
Meetings: Schedule Acknowledgement