Culture and Team Dynamics Questions for 1-on-1s Template

What’s inside this Culture and Team Dynamics Questions Template:

1💭 Thoughts on the team

Ask your direct report the following questions to check in on their thoughts on culture and team dynamics

• How do you find yourself working with your team? 
• Do you think we’re headed in the right direction as a team?
• How do you find working with [name]?
• Have you helped other members of the team recently?
• Do you feel comfortable giving constructive feedback to your peers?
• What are your thoughts on the way we all communicate about the work we are doing?
• What is a difficult but useful conversation that you think could be had in our team that we are not having?

2🏢 Thoughts on the company

Ask your direct report the following questions to check in on their thoughts on culture and team dynamics

• Is there someone in the company or out of the company that you would like to see join our team?
• Who works really well together on the team?
• How have you been getting along with other teams within our department?
• How about when you’ve had to deal with other parts of the company?
• What do you think about the relationship between our team and other teams at the company?

3💪 Improvements

Ask your direct report the following questions to see where the team and company can improve

• Is there anything we can do to improve team dynamics?
• Are there any aspects of our team culture you wish you could change?
• What is a team-building activity that we could do?
• Do you think our team activities are inclusive? How can we make them more inclusive?
• Do you think we all work well together? What can we do to make us more synergistic?

4✅ Action items

What came out of this meeting? What are the next steps?