Type
🌱 Seedling
Format
🥕Tips
Created on
July 15, 2021
1:1s can be difficult. But the key to success is the key to many things: be prepared.

Ingredients
- 100% gratitude
- clear expectations
- humility
- active listening
- support
- feedback
Recipe
- Start with gratitude. Thank them for their time and show them that you are grateful for their support.
- Show support. Tell them you need to rely on them for decisions that benefit the team. If you show humility and tell them that:
- You don't know it all
- That you need them to be succesful, then they will most likely be on your side and you can work together to reach goals.
- Set expectations: what is the purpose of this week? this meeting? What is going on at a high level that they should know about.
- Be an active listener and ask for feedback: the better you practice listening, the better you will get at detecting slight shifts in motivation/emotions/etc. If you can listen, you can become a more empathetic manger and that is the key for gaining your report's trust and even friendship.
- In the end reiterate gratitude and share next steps and key takeaways.
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