It’s easy to let staff meetings turn into routines that don’t confront the tough questions and don’t move the team forward. We try to make them count. A few questions we ask at staff meetings at my companies:

How’s everybody doing personally?

What are our big-picture goals for this company and are we achieving them?

What in your area is going well? What in your area can improve?

What do our dashboards and key numbers say about how we are performing?

What have we learned lately?

How do we intend to win versus our competitors?

What will we each commit to doing before the next meeting?