Make a copy of this doc and bookmark it. Choose 6-8 questions from this list to send to your employee. Ask them to complete it at least 24 hours before your 1:1, so you have time to prepare. For each future 1:1, copy and paste this template again below, and add the new date.
That way you can easily reference notes and see progress over time.
- In the past month, what have you been happy about?
- In the past month what have you been less happy about?
- Any questions or feedback for me?
Select from these other questions
- Are there specific topics you'd like to work on next quarter?
- How do you feel about your goals for this quarter?
- How could I be a better manager for you?
- What can I do to make your professional life better?
- What’s the biggest problem of our organization?
- What don’t you like about our product?
- What would you like to improve next quarter?
- What would you like to achieve by the end of the year?
- What would you like to learn?
- What would you like to be better at / in which areas would you like to grow?
- After X+ month/years at X, how do you feel overall?
- If you were me, what would you do differently?
- What are the things you've done since you joined you're the most proud about?
- Is there anything I could do to invest more in your growth?
- In the next month, what would you like to do differently from last month?
- What's the split of your time today between X/Y/Z? What would you like to spend more/less time on?
- Manager to do:
- Employee to do: