🌱 Recommended Conversation Topics & Questions 🌱

<aside> ❤️‍🔥 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