Questions to Ask Your Manager
One-on-one Meetings
Sample Questions
Here are some questions to make sure that managers and employees are having good, honest, productive conversations.
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How’s it going?
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So, what’s most on your mind?
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What would you like to start with?
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In our last one-on-one, we talked about X. Shall we revisit that?
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What’s the biggest opportunity we’re missing out on?
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If we could improve in any way as an organization, how would we do it?
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What are we not doing that we should be doing? What makes you say that?
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What are we doing that you think we should stop doing, and why?
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How would you say we're doing at working together as team? What makes you say that?
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How could we work better as a team? What makes you say that?
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Is there anything you’d like to see change about the team, and if so, why?
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How are you feeling about the recent news? Why do you say that?
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What’s going well and not so well with the new situation/development? Why do you think this might be happening?
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How are you feeling about the project?
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What can I do to make things more manageable?
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How do you want to be kept updated on our progress?