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Do you know how your employees truly feel about their roles, work, and relationships? Asking the right questions in focused one-on-one settings is key to making sure you’re in tune with your people. This article outlines six questions to try to move beyond surface-level interactions. The more you recognize your team members as people with ambitions and dreams — not just cogs in the machine — the better you’ll understand how they feel about their jobs and futures.

In a classic case of too little, too late, companies often wait until employees leave to ask them about how they felt in their role. But this valuable input could be put to work much earlier—and keep great employees from walking out the door in the first place.