Feedback is one of our greatest assets in life. Unfortunately, we don’t always get it as often as we’d like or sometimes at all. Instead of waiting for someone to give me insight, I crafted 30 questions to ask myself to see how I’m doing from my perspective. Hopefully these questions will help you become more self-aware and more effective in the work you’re doing.

1. If I was my boss, would I be more likely to fire or promote me? Why?
2. If I had 10 fewer hours per week, what would I stop doing?
3. If I had 10 more hours per week, what would I start doing or do more of?
4. What is my greatest fear in my work? Why?
5. When was the last time I failed? Why did I fail? What did I learn from it?
6. What one skill would dramatically increase my job performance?
7. Am I working on the right projects and/or with the right people? If not, what should I change?
8. What is my greatest distraction at work? How can I eliminate it?
9. Which of my peers seems to be performing better than me? What can I learn from her and how she works?
10. When am I most productive? What can I do to maximize that time?
11. What is my greatest accomplishment from the last 6 months? Why was it so significant?
12. If I had an assistant what would I have him do to take things off of my plate?
13. What are the three things I do better than anything else in my job?
14. What areas of work could be improved if I spent more time doing them?
15. What areas of work would be just as good if I spent less time doing them?
16. What about my work makes me the most excited? How can I do more of that?
17. Review calendar from the last two months. Where did I spend the majority of my time?
18. Who seems to enjoy working with me? Why?
19. Who doesn’t enjoy working with me? Why?
20. What one resource would help me do my job better? How could I acquire it?
21. Do I respect my boss? How can I show her more honor?
22. How are people I’m leading doing? Personally? Professionally? Spiritually?
23. If someone watched me work all day, what bad habits would they notice?
24. If someone asked what the main goal of my role is in one sentence, what would I tell them?
25. Where is our team or company heading? How am I helping us get to that place?
26. What are my three primary responsibilities? How can I accomplish them more effectively?
27. What are my personal goals for my work? Am I moving closer to reaching them? How and when will I reach them?
28. If I were my boss, what resource or information would I want to give myself?
29. If I could ask my boss any question and receive an honest answer, what would I ask?
30. What’s one problem that I need to solve to be more effective?

Question: What questions would you add to see how you’re performing in your work?

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