Conversation Cards

Start the conversations teams need to have.

A pack of question prompts for the moments when a team or a pair needs to talk properly, useful for leads, facilitators and teammates. Each card is a single question, not a method. Suits cover warm-ups for meetings, getting to know new teammates, weekly check-ins, working styles, one-to-ones, growth and career, motivation and recognition, and looking back on finished work.

120 questions · 8 suits · 8 recipes

What's inside

Warm-Ups15Does this meeting need an easy way in?
Getting To Know You15Is someone new joining the team?
Check-In15Do you need a quick read on this week?
Work Style15Are you learning how a colleague works best?
One-to-One15Is it time for a one-to-one?
Growth and Career15Is someone thinking about where their work goes next?
Motivation and Recognition15Do you want to know what keeps someone going?
Looking Back and Ahead15Is a piece of work ending or starting?

Sample questions

Warm-Ups

What's one small thing that went well for you since we last met?

Getting To Know You

What's a piece of work you're quietly proud of?

Check-In

From one to five, how focused do you feel today, and what would raise it by one?

One-to-One

What's going well that you'd like more of?

Growth and Career

Which skill, if you built it this year, would change your work the most?

Motivation and Recognition

Think of a recent task where the hours flew by: what were you working on?

Recipes

After The Strain: Help a team that has had a hard stretch say what wears on them, what support works and how they want to disagree from now on.
Before Everyone Leaves: Close a workshop, training day or offsite so people name what they learned, plan one small try-out and thank someone.
End-of-Project Look Back: Close a piece of work by recalling what happened, what surprised you, what to keep and who to thank.
First One-to-One: Start a new working relationship by learning how the person works and what they need.
Grounded Opening: Open a workshop on a weighty subject by reading the room, hearing what people want from it and getting the hard questions out early.
Meet The Neighbours: Get people from different teams talking, and leave each of them knowing who to ask about what.
Project Kickoff Warm-Up: Open a new project by connecting the people and surfacing hopes and worries early.
Remote Room Warm-Up: Open a video call so people talk to each other rather than to a grid of muted tiles.

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