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One-on-one meetings should be a manager’s secret weapon. So why do they so frequently miss the mark?
Imagine you’ve just called customer service. You’ve finally got a human on the line, and you carefully explain your very complicated problem in detail. When you’re done, the rep says, “Sorry to hear that. Let me transfer you to my manager.” A new voice says, “Hi, what seems to be the problem?”
How’s it feel?
Now imagine you’re an employee about to pop into your one-on-one with your manager. At last week’s meeting, you detailed three issues that are preventing you from making progress on an important long-term project. Your manager told you that they’d come to today’s meeting with solutions for busting those blockers. When they get to the meeting, their first words are, “So...what are we talking about today?”
How’s it feel?
What went wrong in both of these scenarios? It’s pretty simple; important information was not captured or transferred across conversations. Why? Because there was no structure in place to make sure that important information was documented. As a result, in both cases, stakeholders important to the success of a business feel, pardon our French, “pissed and dissed.” Not what we’re going for.
So what can we do about it?
Documentation and structure are the magic ingredients that give any meeting — but especially one-on-one meetings — superpowers to:
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Our One-On-One With Direct Reports Flow is more than just a centralized place to document meetings — although it is that too. It also uses multiple formats — from open-ended questions to scale rankings to multiple choice questions — to help employees and managers:
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