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5 Practices for Effective One-on-One Meetings
Managers who don’t have a plan to talk to everyone on their team regularly are deluded.
One-on-one meetings are fundamental to building a high-performance team that can scale to meet business needs and contribute to an organization’s growth.
Most managers understand the importance of these meetings, yet they either deprioritize them or run them ad hoc without proper planning or attention to their effectiveness.
They treat them like items on the to-do list, which feels good once ticked but does not add value to the team’s learning and growth.
Not having these discussions is terrible, but it’s even worse when these meetings leave people feeling confused, overwhelmed or agitated because their managers are either unprepared or don’t know how to run them well.
“Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.”
— Paul Axtell
Use these five practices to run effective one-on-one meetings:
