Tag: 1:1s

Questions for an End of Year 1:1

December 21, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

My coach (Dani) went through this list of questions in our call last week, and I’ve been using it in my last 1:1s of 2017. I’ve been finding it interesting as a structure for a conversation that looks back at the year and where we are now, versus where we were a year ago. Sometimes […]

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On Skip 1:1s

August 31, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

One of the first things I did as a new manager of managers was schedule skip 1:1s with everyone on the team. I blocked off an hour per person, and crammed ~20 hours of them into my first two weeks – along with a lightning trip from Buenos Aires to Philly for WordCamp US. It was […]

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On 1:1s

November 5, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.
a wooden figure towers over danbo, danbo leans backwards, appears intimidated

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that 1:1s are one of the most important activities of being a manager. And yet we all know of managers who don’t do them, or do them so badly that they can hardly be called 1:1s at all. I’ve heard about managers who show up to the 1:1 and talk […]

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