How to Run One-on-One Meetings: A Complete Guide
Expert guide to running effective one-on-one meetings: agenda templates, cadence, first 1:1s, remote 1:1s, and powerful questions for managers.
The exact change
"A one-on-one is the single greatest lever you have as a manager to make your people more effective and your team more successful. Most managers don't use it because they never learned how." Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things [...] "The hardest part of management is having hard conversations. And the second hardest part is having them early enough that they still matter." Kim Scott, Radical Candor
As Ben Horowitz argues in The Hard Thing About Hard Things, the one-on-one is one of the highest-leverage tools a manager has, yet many managers underuse it because they were never taught how to run one well. [...] As Kim Scott discusses in Radical Candor, one of the hardest parts of management is having difficult conversations early enough that they still matter.
Why this is better
Unverified verbatim quote attributed to Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things; this exact wording could not be verified in the book, though Horowitz does emphasize one-on-ones as a high-leverage m; unverified verbatim quote attributed to Kim Scott's Radical Candor; this exact wording could not be verified in the book.
More by Selen Ikbal Uslu in Communication Skills
- Correction Clear Writing Rules From Professional Editors
- Correction Writing Clearly - Professional Guide
- Correction Effective Communication With Coworkers
- Correction Structuring a Speech - Effective Frameworks