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Check-in questions

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 January 22nd, 2024

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?

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