ONE ON ONES

★ Questions To Ask Those Your Developing
John Maxwell Podcast

  1. What keeps you in the game? (Motivation)

  2. What is your number one strength? (Giftedness)

  3. How can we work better together? (Teamwork)

  4. What wears you out? (Emotional)

  5. What have you learned recently? (Teachability)

  6. What’s the best resource I can give you that could help you succeed?

  7. Who do you know that I should know?

★ Three Aspects of a One on One
Matt Tresidder on Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

  1. Care

  2. Development (Feedback)

  3. Performance (Goals)

★ Great Collected Questions To Ask:

Care:

  • How have your close relationships been impacting you?

  • Have you been taking time to rest and practicing any restorative habits?

  • What personal lessons are you learning right now?

Personal Development:

  • How are you personally investing in your growth?

  • Do you feel like you have any untapped potential right now?

Organizational Performance (Defining Current Reality):

  • Do you feel that you have clarity about what is expected of you at _______?

  • What do you see as our gaps and blind spots at _____?

  • What do we need to improve on?

  • Tell me something you think I don’t want to hear about _____?

Personal Performance:

  • What’s working right now?

  • What do you need in order to better succeed?

  • What’s getting in the way? What are the biggest challenges you’re currently facing?

  • Are there any patterns or habits that seem to be holding you back?

  • Do you feel like you have the right people in the right place on your team?

Taking It Deeper:

  • What’s the last five percent?

  • What’s on your mind about ___? And what else?

The Coach Habit Questions
Michael Bungay Stainer in The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever.

  1. What’s on your mind?

  2. What else?

  3. What’s the real challenge here for you?

  4. What do you want?

  5. How can I help?

  6. If you’re saying yes to this, what are you saying no to?

  7. What was most useful for you?

Questions For Feedback
Therese Huston on the HBR on Leadership Podcast

  • Asking self: will this feedback demoralize or motivate them?

  • Asking self: are they aware of the problem? how well do they self-asses?

  • What kind of feedback would be helpful to you?

  • Would it be helpful to hear what I love about your work?

  • What would be a workable solution for you?

  • I have bigger feedback, is this the time to bring it up or not?

  • If you find yourself in the same situation again, what would you do the same and what would you do differently?

  • Was it a real problem or a perception of a problem?

  • This is uncharacteristic of you, help me understand what happened?

  • We’ve covered a lot of ground today, what do you hear me saying?

  • What are you top priorities after what we’ve talked about today?

  • What was most valuable to you out of this conversation?

  • When would you like to circle back on this?