After you’ve successfully implemented your new employee plan, it’s time to sit back and relax. Wrong! Not following up with your employees is like driving a car blindfolded. It may go smoothly at first but eventually, your plan is going to crash.
It’s your job as a leader to do an audit of your employees.
How do you know what your employees are doing and how they are feeling if you don’t ask?
One way to see if things are running smoothly is to go straight to the source. Pull out those questions and answers you asked during job interviews and follow up 6-12 months later to see how your most valuable asset, each employee, has aligned with your plan.
Asking the right questions during an interview has the potential to make dramatic changes for your business, either positive or negative. Equally as important are the questions you ask your employees after they’ve been hired.
Here are some examples of before-and-after questions to help gauge your employees’ well-being. This also reflects on your company’s well-being because, if your employees aren’t happy, no one is happy.
Before
1. Tell me what you’ve learned through your last job experiences.
After
1. What opportunities for learning and growth have you found or created for yourself?
Before
2. Describe a time when you were amazingly successful.
After
2. Can you share an idea to improve any aspect of your role or the company?
Before
3. What’s the most powerful feedback you’ve ever received and how did you respond?
After
3. What inspires you to succeed every day?
Before
4. How would your subordinates, co-workers, and supervisors describe you?
After
4. What’s standing in the way of you being more engaged?
Before
5. Where do you see yourself in the next three years?
After
5. On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with your own progress?
Before
6. Tell me about a time when you created a disaster and how you recovered.
After
6. Looking back over the past year, is there anything that could have gone better in your role?
Before
7. Describe your favourite supervisor; or least favourite supervisor.
After
7. What process can be fixed or improved?
Before
8. What concerns do you have about your ability to do this job?
After
8. Is there anything in your work that’s causing frustration?
Before
9. Tell me how you handled a disagreement with a co-worker?
After
9. What would a healthy workplace culture look like to you?
Before
10. If you were in my position, what question should I ask you?
After
10. How can I be a better leader?
