15 managers questions
For corporate
- 1
What does your team not tell you that you wish they would?
- 2
Which part of managing do you find hardest?
- Giving hard feedback
- Saying no upwards
- Letting people fail
- Not doing the work myself
- Performance conversations
- 3
What is a decision you made this month that you are still not sure about?
- 4
Who on your team is quietly excellent and under-recognised?
- 5
What do you do when you do not know the answer, and what does your team see?
- 6
What did the best manager you ever had do that you try to copy?
- 7
What did the worst one do that you catch yourself doing?
- 8
What conversation with one of your people are you avoiding?
- 9
What do you protect your team from that they do not know about?
- 10
Where are you managing up more than managing down, and why?
- 11
What is a thing you believe about your team that you have never checked with them?
- 12
What part of your own performance would you rate lower than your manager does?
- 13
What would you do differently if you were not measured on the next quarter?
- 14
What is a small thing you could do this week that would change how your team feels?
- 15
Who do you talk to when managing is lonely?
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.
Start with someone