Our one-on-ones have gone flat. What should we be talking about?

Six questions and a simple agenda for your next one-on-one, written for the person across the table.


When to use
When your regular one-on-one has turned into a status update that could have been an email.
Time
5 min

The prompt

I have a regular one-on-one with . Lately these meetings have become . Something I suspect we’re not talking about: . Give me six questions for the next one, written for this person and this situation, that can’t be answered with ‘fine.’ Order them from easiest to hardest, and tell me how to ask the last one so it doesn’t land as an accusation. Then show me how to split the 30 minutes so updates don’t eat them, and name one thing I should stop doing in these meetings. You only have my description, so say where you’re guessing about this person.

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