Workplace Values Question Bank

Workplace Values Question Bank

For Coaches, Facilitators and Leaders

Supporting Meaningful Conversations About Workplace Culture and Career Decision-Making

"Trust the wisdom of your values—they speak louder than promises.”

300+ Questions to Open, Deepen, and Guide Workplace Values Conversations

This question bank provides 300+ ready-to-use questions designed to help coaches, facilitators, and leaders open, deepen, and guide workplace values conversations with clients or colleagues navigating career decisions, assessing organisational fit, or facing choices where financial security and wellbeing compete for priority.

Eleven Essential Conversation Frameworks:

1. Opening Workplace Values Conversations – Questions that help clients or colleagues identify what matters through workplace experience, history, and current situations
2. Recognising Workplace Misalignment – Questions that reveal workplace disconnection, understand physical signals, and recognise toxic patterns
3. Clarifying Workplace Core Values – Questions that help clients or colleagues name what matters in work environments, test workplace understanding, and distinguish between workplace values
4. Researching Workplace Culture – Questions for gathering information, observing during interviews, and testing workplace alignment
5. Workplace Values in Decision-Making – Questions for facing workplace choices, navigating financial pressure, and weighing competing workplace values
6. Moving Toward Workplace Alignment – Questions that explore workplace possibilities, identify practical steps, and address what's stopping workplace movement
7. Navigating Workplace Wellbeing – Questions for recognising mental health impact, protecting wellbeing at work, and deciding when to leave
8. Workplace Values in Interviews – Questions for asking values-revealing questions, reading interview signals, and trusting your gut
9. Team and Leadership Values – Questions for assessing leadership alignment, understanding team dynamics, and evaluating workplace relationships
10. Ongoing Workplace Alignment – Questions for regular workplace check-ins, recognising workplace evolution, and sustaining workplace alignment
11. When Workplace Values Require Difficult Action – Questions for deciding to leave, having difficult workplace conversations, protecting yourself, and holding space for workplace values exploration

Throughout the question bank, questions are organised by professional development purpose, allowing you to quickly find language that fits your current moment with clients or colleagues. Each section includes questions that invite honest exploration, helping others discover their own clarity about workplace values and how to honour both practical needs and personal principles in professional decisions.

This resource stands alone as a practical tool for immediate use in professional development sessions, with deeper exploration of workplace values available in School of WorkLife's Workplace Values: Navigating Career Decision Making.

One-time purchase. Unlimited professional use in individual and group settings.