We would like our managers to be having regular “check ins” with their team which include discussions about the employee’s wellbeing. Have you got any tips on how to introduce this kind of regular meeting?

If a meeting is entirely about “checking in,” it’s probably a waste of time, and your employees will end up feeling this way too! So if you are thinking about introducing a meeting like this, make sure that you make them really helpful and valuable to you and your employee.

Quality one-on-one meetings strengthen relationships, identify any blocks to the team members’ success, and maintain ongoing realignment with priorities.

While these meetings must be carefully conducted so they don’t fall into the trap of becoming casual and/or unproductive, good one-on-one meeting questions can ensure you get the information you need.

If you want the check-in portion of your meeting to be useful, here’s some useful check-in questions for having a great 1:1/wellbeing check in with your team members.

• Using a percentage, how full is your plate right now?
• What’s going well at work right now? What isn’t?
• How is your work-life balance this week/this month?
• What’s something that brought you joy this month?
• Who in the team has inspired you this week?
• What’s a talent you have that you don’t use at work?
• What’s something that you do to relieve stress?
• What’s one thing you’d change about our organisation/our team?
• What’s your favourite thing about our team?
• If you could spend one workday a week working on whatever you wanted to, what would it be?
• What have you been working on since we last met?
• What takes up most of your time?
• What milestones have you hit?
• What’s in your way to being more productive?
• How can I better support your work?
• What excites you about your work? What has you worried?
• How does your work here align with your career goals?
• How do you feel about your team?
• Do you have time to get the rest you need?
• Do you feel supported by our leadership team/by me?

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