Skip Level 1:1s

Some suggested prompts to provide the person you are holding the skip-level 1-1 with include: - What do you like best/worst about the project you are working on?
- Who on your team has been doing really well recently?
- Do you have any feedback about your manager – what’s going well, what isn’t?
- What changes do you think we could make to the product?
- Are there any opportunities you think we might be missing?
- How do you think the organization is doing overall? - Anything we could be doing better/more/less?
- Are there any areas of the business strategy you don’t understand?
- What’s keeping you from doing your best work right now?
- How happy (or not) are you working at the company?
- What could we do to make working at the company more fun?⊕ (Fournier 2017, chap. 7)

I used to hold skip-level lunches with whole teams, where I would buy lunch for the group and we would talk about whatever was going on.

… In the group setting, these questions can be used to draw out information: - What can I, your manager’s manager, provide for you or your team? Anything I should be helping with?
- Is this team working poorly with any other teams, from your perspective?
- Are there any questions about the larger organization that I can answer?⊕ (Fournier 2017, chap. 7)