190 team building questions

Team building questions that make a group a team.

Questions about how people like to work, decide and be helped, and playful what-ifs that show how a group thinks. Good for new teams, offsites and team charters.

Use them in a meeting Try a live check-in

Short answer

Team building questions work when they surface something useful: how someone likes feedback, when they do their best thinking, what makes them feel trusted. Ask a few at a time, write down the answers, and turn them into working agreements.

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How do you like to receive feedback: in writing, in person, straight away or later?
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What's the best way to get your attention when something is urgent?
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What time of day are you at your sharpest?
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What kind of task do you find surprisingly satisfying?
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What's one thing people often misunderstand about how you work?
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How do you prefer to make decisions: quickly, or after sleeping on it?
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What do you do when you're stuck on a problem?
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How do you like to be thanked for good work?
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What's a work style of yours that might surprise this team?
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What makes you feel trusted at work?
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What's a sign that you're overloaded, so we can spot it?
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Do you think best by talking, writing or drawing?
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What does a perfect handover from a colleague look like to you?
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Which kind of meeting gives you energy, and which drains it?
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How much detail do you like before starting a task?
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What do you need from a manager to do your best work?
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What's a strength of yours this team doesn't use enough?
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What's a skill you'd love to learn from someone here?
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How do you like to celebrate a finished project?
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What's your favourite way to brainstorm?
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What does respect look like to you in a meeting?
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When you disagree with a decision, how do you prefer to raise it?
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What helps you focus when the office or home is noisy?
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What's something you could teach the team in ten minutes?
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How do you like to start a working week?
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What do you wish people asked you for help with more often?
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How do you like to plan your week?
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Are you a starter, a finisher or somewhere in the middle?
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What's one thing that makes collaboration easy for you?
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What's a pet peeve about shared documents or chat?
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How do you recharge after an intense stretch of work?
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What's one value you try to bring to every team you join?
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What part of a project do you enjoy most: the idea, the build or the finish?
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Which kind of problem would you happily take off a teammate's hands?
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What's a small gesture from a colleague that made your day?
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Which of your skills came from a job outside this industry?
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How do you like new information: big picture first, or details first?
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What does 'urgent' mean to you, in hours?
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How do you prefer to be asked for something: a message, a call or a ticket?
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What's the most useful thing a teammate has ever done for you?
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What would make our team meetings more useful for you?
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What's one thing you'd like the team to know about your role?
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What's a working agreement you'd like this team to have?
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What do you need to feel comfortable sharing a half-finished idea?
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What's one way this team could make your job easier?
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Which kind of recognition means most to you: public, private or none at all?
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How do you prefer to learn something new: reading, watching or doing?
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What's a question you'd like every new team member to ask you?
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When are you happiest to be interrupted, and when not at all?
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What's one thing you'd like to get better at with this team's help?
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What's a moment when this team made you proud?
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Which of your habits would you recommend to the rest of us?
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What's your approach when two priorities collide?
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Who outside the team do you rely on most, and how can we help that relationship?
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What helps you stay connected to the team on remote days?
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What do you find hardest about working across time zones or schedules?
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What's something you're an expert in that has nothing to do with work?
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What's the most interesting project you worked on before joining this team?
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What's a hidden talent the team should know about?
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If the team went on a day out, what would you suggest?
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Team building questions: common questions

What are good team building questions?

Ones about working styles: how do you like to receive feedback, what's the best way to get your attention when something is urgent, what does a perfect handover look like to you.

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Ask three or four in the first weeks, collect answers on phones so everyone contributes, and keep the answers in a shared team page.

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