Increase your EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE, fuel your one-to-ones with these thought provoking questions from Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott:

What has become clear since we last met?

What is the area that, if you made an improvement, would give you and others the greatest return on time, energy, and dollars invested?

What is currently impossible to do that, if it were possible, would change everything?

What are you trying to make happen in the next 3 months?

What’s the most important decision you are facing? What’s keeping you from making it?

What topics are you hoping I won’t bring up?

What area under your responsibility are you most satisfied with? least satisfied with?

What part of your responsibilities are you avoiding right now?

Who are your strongest employees? What are you doing to ensure that they're happy and motivated?

Who are your weakest employees? What is your plan for them?

What conversations are you avoiding right now?

What do you wish you had more time to do?

What things are you doing that you would like to stop doing or delegate to someone else?

If you were hired to consult with our company, what would you advise?

If you were competing against our company, what would you do?

What threatens your peace? What threatens the business? your health? your personal fulfillment?