The Top 10 Questions to Ask the Owner of the Company You Work For

1. Why are you in business?

2. What is your vision and mission for this business? company? industry?

3. What is your view of your employees? How do you show them?

4. What have you done in the last 3 months, 6 months, year to demonstrate to the employees your belief?

5. What do you see as the greatest threat for this business? industry?

6. Where do you see the greatest opportunities for this business? industry?

7. What are the values of this company and how are they expressed or honored?

8. Are all of your policies, procedures, guidelines, actions, in sync with the values of the company?

9. If you do strategic planning, how do you use it?

10. If you do succession planning, what actions come from it?

This piece was originally submitted by Winston Connor, Coach, who can be reached at winstonc@utw.com .