Episode 33

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26th Feb 2025

The 5 Best Check-In Questions

In this solo episode, Jason shares the five best check-in questions for leaders, offering invaluable advice on fostering more meaningful and impactful conversations with your team. He reminds you that an effective check-in starts with a great question. He then shares how to use these questions to create conversations that matter with your people.

Key highlights from the episode include:

👉 An overview of the four steps to an effective, meaningful check-in and how it all starts with asking a great question.

👉 How to turn a bad (or ineffective) check-in question into a great one with one simple change

👉 Learn to address one of the fundamental drivers of employee engagement—recognition and appreciation—through an insightful, game-changing question.

👉 How to have more effective career development conversations by using the right check-in question

👉 Explore the "3H Check-In" as a holistic approach to understanding your team's overall well-being, empowering you to support them more effectively.

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Unlocking High Performance
How leaders unlock performance by creating the conditions for people to do their best work
Unlocking High Performance is a podcast for leaders who want strong results without burning their people out in the process.

Hosted by Jason Lauritsen, the show explores how clarity, alignment, and connection shape performance at work. Jason draws from his work with CEOs, executive teams, and leaders to examine why work so often becomes heavier, slower, and more frustrating than it needs to be and how to fix it.

Some episodes are solo reflections. Others are conversations with leaders and practitioners navigating real constraints and consequences. Each conversation looks beyond tactics to understand the leadership and organizational conditions that make performance possible.

The podcast focuses on the systems that drive performance, not leadership theory or quick fixes. Listeners will walk away with a clearer understanding of how work actually gets done and how to build environments where people perform at their best.

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