At my best: Good Question Cards makes team meetings more lively

These cards are easy to use and engage everyone on the team in a constructive and lively way

48 questions that focus on what’s working well. The perfect way to stimulate deeper, more meaningful, and more uplifting conversations.

Great for

• Stimulating interest and engagement.
• Building connections between people.
• Highlighting what’s working well rather than what’s broken.
• Encouraging appreciation.
• Sharing appreciation.
• Building more supportive and positive cultures.

What’s on the cards?
48 cards, each containing a thought-provoking question.

The questions are arranged into 6 color-coded question families:

• Appreciating yourself.
• Appreciating others.
• Broadening appreciation.
• Increasing self-awareness.
• Seeing the world differently.
• Creating change.

Each set includes introductory exercises to get you started, as well as details on more online exercise ideas.

Available both as a physical deck of cards and as a virtual deck via deckhive.com

Using conversation cards in a meeting or in a team is a great way to break the ice and create deeper conversations. When participants are given cards and talk together in smaller groups (2-3 people), either walking or sitting, it provides a number of clear benefits:

• It creates psychological safety and equal speaking time: In large groups, it is often the same few people who take the floor. When you sit or walk in smaller groups of 2-3 people, it is much easier for more introverted or reserved colleagues to speak up. It creates a safe space where everyone's voice is heard.
• It provides higher engagement and energy: The format, where you can walk around the room (a "walk and talk"), activates the body and increases blood flow to the brain. It creates physical variety in the meeting, prevents 'meeting fatigue' and significantly raises the general energy in the room.
• It strengthens the relational bonds across the board: Conversation cards often force participants to talk about topics or angles that they do not normally touch on in a busy everyday life. It builds trust, empathy and stronger personal relationships, which directly strengthens the team's subsequent collaboration and communication.
• It provides targeted focus without derailments: Professionally designed conversation cards help keep the focus on the chosen topic or theme. The questions act as a common thread that prevents the conversation from getting off track or ending in indifferent small talk, while at the same time keeping the framework feeling informal.
• It breaks down silos in the organization: If you deliberately put together groups across departments or familiar cliques – or let people mix on the floor – professional and social silos break down. It opens up new perspectives and a broader shared understanding in the team or company.