These 20 Team-Building Questions Are Pure Gold
If a company could operate solely under the guidance of one person, then companies would never expand. Instead, it takes a team of like-minded individuals to drive success.
However, your teams right now couldn’t be more disparate. You feel such a disconnect between staff members that you wonder how you might ever bring everyone together.
The answer is simple – through team-building questions.
In this article, we share 20 questions that are pure gold for team building, and also why it’s important to keep asking these questions.
- 20 of Our Favorite Team-Building Questions
- The Benefits of Team-Building Questions
- Discovering common interests
- Finding unique viewpoints
- Building warm relationships
- Defining shared values
- Boosting workplace trust
- Wrap Up
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- If you could be the team leader or boss for one day, what kinds of changes would you make? What would you do?
- What is the best advice that a colleague or manager in this office gave you? Why?
- What is your go-to joke when in an awkward situation like a pregnant pause?
- If you could live the life of any fictional character, who would you choose and why?
- What is the one thing that gets you out of bed every morning?
- Do you have any regrets in your life or periods you wish you could go back and change? Why?
- Do you have any periods in your life that you wish you could relive just to experience them again?
- What is the worst icebreaker question you’ve ever been asked? How about the best one?
- What is the most inspirational quote you’ve ever heard?
- What do you think is the best thing that’s ever happened to you? How about the worst thing?
- What does your ideal life look like? What’s stopping you from living that life now?
- What is one thing that no one knows about you that you’ve always wanted to tell them?
- What is your favorite trait that you possess? Why?
- What kinds of plans do you have for retirement? Do you want to travel the world or just relax?
- Who has been the most influential person in your life and why?
- From beginning to end, describe your perfect day. What makes it perfect to you?
- If you could rather have infinite money or infinite wisdom, which would you rather have?
- If you could choose from a superpower such as being able to fly, turn invisible, or freeze time, which power would you want and why?
- What bad habit do you have that you’re currently trying to change?
- What are the top five items on your bucket list?