For more information on what warm-up questions are and how they can help you lead through meetings, read this summary.

Warm-up questions don’t have to be fluffy icebreakers!

Here are warm-up questions you can use to set the expectation that everyone is present and participating in your next leadership meeting.

Purpose: sharing updates, surfacing connections, highlighting downstream impacts

• What's your top priority this week and what support do you need from others on this team to get it done?
• What's one piece of information you wish you had known earlier last week that would have helped your work?
• What is one thing you're working on right now that will impact others on this team? What? How? When will they learn more?
  • Variation:
    • Share one thing you're working on this week that you don't think others in this room need to know details about
    • Raise your hand if you think you do need details
• What's one decision underway where you are the Recommender? What does the rest of the RAPID look like?
• What's one decision underway for which you are unclear on the RAPID?
• What's one challenge you're facing this week and how can the team help?
• What's one success from last week that you'd like to share with the team?
• Is there any information or resource you need from another team to move forward on your current project?

Purpose: Personal Reflection, Publicly Shared

• What are you proudest of in the last week?
• What is something you learned in the last week?
• What didn't go as planned in the last week?
• This week will be successful if____
• What is one thing you've done to enhance your visibility and accessibility as a leader at [organization] since last week? If nothing, what's one thing that got in your way?
• What's one way you've embodied [organization]'s values in your work this week?