10 executive team questions
For corporate
- 1
What decision did we get right this year that we have not celebrated?
- 2
Which of these best describes our meetings?
- Decisions get made
- Updates get read out
- The real decisions happen elsewhere
- One voice dominates
- Better than last year
- 3
What does each of us think the company's biggest problem is, and why have we not aligned?
- 4
Who on this team do you disagree with most, and have you told them properly?
- 5
What are you protecting in your own area that the company would be better off without?
- 6
What do people two levels down believe about this team, and are they right?
- 7
What is a message we send by what we pay attention to, that we would not send on purpose?
- 8
What would you do about the person on this team who is not working out, if it were only your call?
- 9
What are you tired of that you are supposed to be energised by?
- 10
What is your successor going to inherit that you should fix first?
Try answering these at the same time
Reading a question out loud means whoever answers first sets the tone for everyone else. In Answersealed you each answer privately, and the answers only open once everyone has replied — so you get what people actually thought.
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