Questions for Someone New
Team-building questions to open up with a newcomer
Team-building question cards that slowly close the distance between a newcomer and an unfamiliar team.
They hold the questions the early days call for: an unfamiliar door, a first word, how to ask for help.
They help you hold off on judging each other too quickly and settle into the room slowly.
How it works
- Cut out the cards, shuffle them, sit down together, and draw one.
- The newcomer and the one welcoming them take turns answering.
- Feel free to skip a question that feels hard because it's all so new.
When · with whom
Great for a new member's first day, a new project's first meeting, or joining an unfamiliar team.
Questions for Someone New
- An Unfamiliar Door
- A First Day
- The One Who Spoke First
- Settling In
- Asking What You Do Not Know
- A Moment Alone
- If You Began Again
- The Air on the First Day
- Words Used Only Here
- Hard to Notice
- A Corner You Like
- Seen from Outside
- Here, Today
- What You Want to Know
- How You Grow Close
- Something You Keep At
- The Name You Want
- Often Misread
- A Story Saved Up
- One Thing Today
- If We Were Animals
- A Dish for the First Day
- A Silly Rule
- Getting Lost
- Trading Places
- Something to Offer
- Words You Want to Hear
- Something to Do Together
- Getting Along
- A Day of Laughing