{"id":10610,"date":"2018-02-07T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowbreeze.it\/?p=10610"},"modified":"2023-07-24T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:41:08","slug":"how-to-structure-useful-11-with-your-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rainbowbreeze.it\/wordpress\/how-to-structure-useful-11-with-your-team\/","title":{"rendered":"How to structure useful 1:1 with your team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the core components of my manager toolbox is the 1to1 meeting (or 1:1, or one-on-one, or 1on1, face2face, f2f, \u2026), a recurring appointment each team member has with me. How to structure and get the most out of it?<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning, it\u2019s important to set the reasons to spent this time together and the tone. <strong>The meeting is all about the team member<\/strong>: their needs, frustrations, feedback, ideas and career growth are the topics of discussion. The 1:1 is a chance for the team member to bring the problems them need help with, and a chance for me to learn more about their work. As consequence, I empower them to be the owner of the agenda and structure it around a unique, core, question: &#8220;<strong>What can your manager be helping with?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once the objectives are clear, I <strong>set the cadency of the meeting to create an habits<\/strong>, generally weekly and one hour long. Unless something more urgent happens: rush hurts the quality of the conversation, so better postpone to a less busy moment, or shorten, or even make a phone call if there is something urgent to discuss and other conflicting activities.<\/p>\n<p>Especially for the first times, I prefer to use a <strong>format that facilitate the discussion centered on the previous question<\/strong>. To make everything more collaborative and transparent, I have a shared and confidential document with every team member that we can both pre-populate, with this general structure for each meeting we have. The use of \u201cyou\u201d is important to empower the team member, instead of a more abstract 3rd person.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Challenges: Leverage manager support to remove roadblocks and enhance your impact, receive coaching and guidance in areas where you have a challenge<\/li>\n<li>Issues and Concerns: make manager aware of any personal or professional issues you have<\/li>\n<li>Review core and project progress: an opportunity to demonstrate your impact, to share what\u2019s going on and what\u2019s coming up<\/li>\n<li>Performance expectation and feedback: from the manager, to the manager<\/li>\n<li>Career and personal development: support in developing your career, skills and knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Misc (Out of office, lead updates, other unplanned discussions)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s important to constantly remember the point on <strong>career and personal development<\/strong> and, once in a while, it becomes the main topic of the meeting. Again, to facilitate the discussion, it can be useful to have a career worksheet template to use as base, touching these main areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Personal reflection<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Goal setting<\/li>\n<li>Action planning<\/li>\n<li>End-of-quarter retrospectives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As final touch, I remember the team it\u2019s always possible to change the structure of our 1:1 and they can schedule extra 1:1s outside of our normal schedule, as I\u2019m here to serve.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus activity for one of the 1:1: <a href=\"\/importance-team-why-we-do-what-we-do\/\">ask the reasons they do what they do<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the core components of my manager toolbox is the 1to1 meeting (or 1:1, or one-on-one, or 1on1, face2face, f2f, \u2026), a recurring appointment each team member has with me. 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At the beginning, it\u2019s important to set the reasons to spent this time together &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rainbowbreeze.it\/wordpress\/how-to-structure-useful-11-with-your-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to structure useful 1:1 with your team<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[868],"tags":[855],"class_list":["post-10610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team","tag-leadership"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to structure useful 1:1 with your team - 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