🌱 Recommended Conversation Topics & Questions 🌱
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❤️🔥 Below you will find some recommended topics/questions for your weekly 1:1 dialog with your leader. It is important that you are prepared with any priorities or topics that are important to your work and development.
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Recurring questions (Ask these often!)
- Playbacks / split-tracks: So, it sounds like there are two issues, x and y. Which should we
focus on first?
- Deblur questions: What does X mean to you?
- **SOON questions:** What does Success look like? What are the Obstacles? Options? Next
steps?
Small talk / purposeful connection
- How are you? How was your week? Weekend? How’s your family / pet / hobby?
- What can I help with to improve your work / life balance by 10%?
- On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you with how the week went? What’s been on your mind?
Questions to understand their motivators / drivers
- When do you feel you are at your best? What conditions create it?
- Which part of your work is most energizing? Least energizing? What do you wish you could do less of? More of?
- What area under your responsibility are you most satisfied with? Least satisfied with?
- What would you say your biggest strengths are? What % of time do you get to use them? How can we increase that?
- What can you do now that you couldn’t do six months ago? How did you learn that?
Questions to develop long-term goals