As a manager or the owner of a
business, how often do you get to interact with your employees on an individual
basis? With busy and conflicting schedules, it can be hard to find times
outside of team meetings or performance evaluations to talk more generally to
an employee.
To help make sure that employees always have an open channel of communication with managers, we have weekly 1:1s, which is a 30-minute block of time for a manager to meet with just one person. The purpose of 1:1s isn’t evaluation or getting assignments, although those might be outcomes. Instead, it should be an chance for an employee to share projects, questions, concerns, and anything else with his or her manager.
Because the intention of a 1:1 is to have easy communication across levels, the employee should be the person leading the meeting, not the manager. Employees should provide the agenda and direct the discussion, while managers should make sure to listen and provide constructive feedback. Here are a few other tips to get the most out of 1:1 time:
To help make sure that employees always have an open channel of communication with managers, we have weekly 1:1s, which is a 30-minute block of time for a manager to meet with just one person. The purpose of 1:1s isn’t evaluation or getting assignments, although those might be outcomes. Instead, it should be an chance for an employee to share projects, questions, concerns, and anything else with his or her manager.
Because the intention of a 1:1 is to have easy communication across levels, the employee should be the person leading the meeting, not the manager. Employees should provide the agenda and direct the discussion, while managers should make sure to listen and provide constructive feedback. Here are a few other tips to get the most out of 1:1 time:
- Prepare and share an
agenda in advance to keep the meeting efficient.
- Use a running
document to keep your agenda and notes in to refer to later, and make
sure both the employee and manager can edit
it.
- Discuss career
development more broadly, and what skills you can gain at work outside of
your core job.
If
weekly 1:1s seems too often, try bi-weekly or maybe even monthly. You could
also try scheduling
a regular office hour on your calendar where employees can just drop in to
talk. Does your business have another strategy that helps with communication?
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