1:1 Meetings

The goal of weekly 1:1 meetings is to give manager and direct report a regular time slot for information exchange on a business and personal level. It can often happen that goals are missed, the focus is lost or feelings are hurt during an intense week of daily operations. The 1:1 meeting gives an opportunity to fix any issues, create clarity on priorities and kick-off into the upcoming week with a clear mind.

Basics

Frequency: Weekly

Duration: 30 -45 minutes

Participants: Manager, Direct Report

Goal

1. Assess progress

Example questions:

• How are your OKRs coming along (metric-driven)?

• How confident are you to achieve the goals?

• What must get done this week to advance OKRs?

2. Identify potential issues

Example questions:

• Is there anything stopping you from attaining your objectives (e.g. dependencies to team members or other departments?

• Any OKRs that need to be adjusted – or added, or eliminated – in light of shifting priorities?

3. How can I help?

Example questions:

• What critical capabilities do you need to be successful?

• Is the team still excited by the OKRs? Not reachable or too easy?

4. Feedback: honest & sincere appreciation, coaching, and feedback from last week

• This should only happen when there are concrete situation that you observed (ideally write those situations down after every day to not forget it)

• Follow-up on behavior discussed in the quarterly performance review

• Otherwise, try to give feedback about this format and the quality of the report

5. Upward feedback

Example questions:

• What are you getting from me that you find helpful?

• What am I doing/ saying that impedes your ability to be effective?

• What could I do for you that would help you to be more successful?