Build Thriving Teams, Positive Culture & Workplace Wellbeing
Transform your workplace through meaningful conversation. Evidence-based questions that develop leadership, strengthen teams, enhance wellbeing, and create organizational cultures where both people and performance flourish.
High-performing organizations recognize that business outcomes depend on human thriving. FlourishTalk provides practical tools for building psychological safety, developing leaders, enhancing wellbeing, and creating cultures where employees bring their best selves to work.
Create environments where people feel safe to speak up, take risks, and be authentic. Psychological safety is the foundation of innovation and high performance.
Grow leaders at all levels who bring out the best in others. Leadership is a practice, not a position—these questions build that practice.
Support employee wellness across all dimensions—mental, physical, emotional, social. Healthy employees are engaged, productive, and loyal employees.
Build high-quality relationships across teams, departments, and hierarchies. Strong connections improve collaboration, reduce silos, and increase retention.
Research shows wellbeing initiatives correlate with productivity, creativity, and profitability. Flourishing employees drive business results.
Employees stay where they feel valued, connected, and able to grow. These conversations demonstrate that you care about the whole person.
Start meetings with a meaningful question instead of diving straight into tasks. Use questions from Positive Emotions at Work, Engagement at Work, or Relationships at Work (from Wellbeing at Work—the PERMA-H/V model applied to workplace). Two minutes of human connection transforms team dynamics.
Managers use questions from Positive Psychology Coaching (29 topics covering all life domains), ALIGHT Leadership (18 topics), or Career & Professional Growth to have meaningful development conversations beyond status updates.
ALIGHT Leadership provides comprehensive framework: Abundance (3 topics on strengths), Limberness (3 topics on adaptability), Inspiration (3 topics on hope & efficacy), Grand Design (3 topics on meaning & purpose), Health (3 topics), Tribe (3 topics on connection). Develop leaders who bring out the best in themselves and others.
New hires use questions from New Colleagues at Work (from Small Talk) to build relationships quickly. Pair with Character Strengths to help new employees identify how they'll contribute uniquely.
Off-sites use Connection Lab (including Aron's 36 Questions), Co-workers (199 questions from Deepening Relationships), or topics from Understanding Differences (8 topics) to accelerate trust and collaboration.
Teams use questions from Thinking Well (19 topics), Clear Thinking & Better Decisions (9 topics), or Habits of Mind (16 topics like Creating/Imagining/Innovating, Questioning and Posing Problems) to think more creatively and strategically.
Employee wellness programs incorporate Wellness (6 dimensions: Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, Occupational, Community, Spiritual), PAVING STEPSS: Lifestyle Medicine (12 steps), Mental Fitness (11 topics), or Emotional Wellbeing (12 topics) into programming.
During transitions, use Transition & Change (from Positive Psychology Coaching), Resilience topics from multiple categories, or Limberness topics (from ALIGHT Leadership) to help teams navigate uncertainty.
These categories directly support organizational objectives and employee development:
6 PERMA-H/V topics applied to work (44-45 questions each): Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment, Health & Vitality at Work
18 topics across 6 leadership resources (46-67 questions each): Abundance, Limberness, Inspiration, Grand Design, Health, Tribe—comprehensive leadership development
29 topics (48-62 questions each) covering all life domains: Career, Financial, Health, Relationships, Values, Meaning, Growth, Work-Life Integration
24 universal strengths (44-51 questions each): Help teams understand and leverage complementary strengths for better collaboration
Co-workers topic (199 questions) specifically for workplace relationships, plus Teamwork and Leadership from other categories
6 topics (79 questions each): Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, Optimism, Grit, Growth Mindset—build psychological capital for performance
11 topics (70 questions each) on Mental Strength, Flexibility, Endurance, Social Connection—train psychological fitness like physical fitness
12 topics (65-79 questions each): Support employee mental health through Stress, Burnout, Work-Life Balance, Resilience, Self-Compassion
9 topics (70-97 questions each): Overcome cognitive biases, improve decision-making, enhance problem-solving at individual and team levels
16 intelligent behaviors (48-50 questions each): Persisting, Managing Impulsivity, Thinking Flexibly, Metacognition, Innovation, Risk-Taking
8 topics (59-73 questions each): Navigate personality, cultural, generational, communication, and values differences for inclusive workplaces
10 dimensions (77-97 questions each): Help employees design rich lives beyond work—Time, Growth, Mental, Physical, Craft, Financial, Social, Community, Adventure, Service
10 minutes per week of structured conversation:
FlourishTalk provides the structure. You provide the time and intention. The ROI is compounding—better relationships lead to better outcomes across all metrics.
Browse all 37 categories and 23,000+ questions online. Perfect for managers to explore independently, teams to project questions in meetings, and HR to integrate into existing programs with unlimited variety.
Get customized card decks aligned to your organizational goals, culture initiatives, and leadership development programs. Ideal for team off-sites, one-on-one meetings, training sessions, and creating tangible artifacts of your culture work. Many organizations find physical cards increase participation and make facilitation easier for managers.
Start this week. Choose one category aligned to your goals. Introduce it in your next team meeting. Ask one question. Listen.
Watch what happens when people feel truly seen and valued at work.
FlourishTalk's workplace questions draw from:
Every category is designed to support both human flourishing and organizational performance—not as competing priorities, but as mutually reinforcing outcomes.