How to Improve Your Business by Instituting a Simple 1-On-1 Meeting

Posted on July 12, 2013

I advise all my clients to follow this key success discipline that great managers routinely practice: They schedule a regular weekly 1 on 1 meeting with each of their direct reports.

This 1 on 1 appointment is a brief meeting with a specific agenda. Random meetings (including casual conversations / coffees / brainstorming) that you may have with a team member during the week are all well and good, but they do not replace the recurring, diarized 1 on 1 meeting. That’s because the 1 on 1 meeting is where you are focused solely on that person and how you as a manager can best support them in the execution of their goals.

Read this excellent post that advises exactly how to run great 1:1 meetings with your direct reports.