Week In, Week Out
Explore how to conduct meaningful weekly one-on-one meetings that build trust and foster strong relationships with your staff. Understand the importance of consistency, preparation, and leveraging these sessions to address challenges and enhance performance. This lesson guides you in setting up effective one-on-ones, maintaining a rolling agenda, and ensuring valuable, private conversations with your team members.
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One-on-one meetings form the core of the relationship you have with your staff. They are the point during each week in which you both give up your time to be together. High-quality one-on-one meetings build high-quality relationships. They allow you to engage with your staff on a deep, personal level. By performing them mindfully and to a high standard, you can have a tremendous impact on the performance of your staff, and even on their lives. If you manage people for long enough, your one-on-ones will cover pretty much everything, from good times to bad, to conversations with highly performing staff to those who need to leave the company, to news of births and deaths of both real people and of JavaScript frameworks.
Leverage
Let me use a buzzword for a second: leverage. When we talk about leverage in a business context, we often mean doing highly impactful activities where a small investment of time and effort can result in large amounts of output. If you look back at the ...