Topic Ideas
1. Work habits
- Which part of the day do you feel most productive?
- When do you feel that your energy and focus are at the lowest level?
- What are the changes that can be made so you can take the best out of a work day?
- What were your biggest time wasters or roadblocks last week or the week before?
- What do you do when you get stuck on something?
- What is your process of getting unstuck?
- Who is the team member you turn to for help?
2. Team collaboration and relations
- Who inspires you in the team?
- Whose opinions do you respect?
- What have they done?
- Is there anybody in the team that you find it difficult to work with?
- Can you tell me why?
- What do you think about the amount of feedback in our team?
- When do others give feedback to you?
- Would you like to hear more feedback from other team members and me?
- What do you think would help us work together better?
- Any suggestions for improvement in the way we work together?
3. Team’s happiness
- Are you happy working here?
- Are you happy with your recent work?
- Why or why not?
- What keeps you engaged with your daily work?
- What can I do to help make daily tasks more engaging?
- What kind of projects do you enjoy working on?
- What motivates you to work on a project?
- Can you name three things we can do to help so you can enjoy your job more?
- What is the best accomplishment you had since you are here?
- Do you feel appreciated for it?
- What are the things that worry you?
- Anything on your mind?
- Have you ever felt undervalued here?
- Why?
4. Short-term goals
- How is the project going?
- What can we do to help?
- What are the main bottlenecks?
- Can we do anything to move it along?
- What are the projects you would be interested in working on next?
5. Long-term goals
- What do you want to achieve in the next 3 years?
- How do you think about your progress on your big goals?
- What needs to be done to move towards the goals?
- What can we do to help?
- Which part of the work here do you feel as most relevant to your long-term goals?
- What kinds of projects do you want to take part in to move toward your goals?
6. Personal development
- Do you feel like you are learning at work?
- What are the new things you learned lately?
- What are the areas you want to learn about?
- Whom in the team do you want to learn from?
- Whom do you get valuable feedback from?
- Do you think that you receive enough feedback?
- Is feedback helpful for your personal development?
- What can I do to help you get the feedback you want?
- Would you like more coaching?
- What aspect of your job do you like more help and coaching on?
7. Manager improvement
- What can I do as a manager to make your work easier?
- What do you like about my management style?
- What do you dislike?
- What is the percentage of my involvement in your daily tasks?
- Would you prefer more or less?
- How can I support you better?
- What is something I could have done better?
- What are the situations that I could have helped more but didn’t?