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daily one on ones is a bit much. If I had a manager who tried to do that, I'd be running for the hills screaming. When I was at Intuit, every manager had to sc
by plinkplonk 11y ago
daily one on ones is a bit much. If I had a manager who tried to do that, I'd be running for the hills screaming.
When I was at Intuit, every manager had to schedule an hour every two weeks with each of his direct reports. This worked reasonably well, and most times, it would take less than 10 minutes for me and my manager to update each other and then we'd go back to work.
- danieltillett 11y agoI didn’t actually suggest daily one-on-one, just that they average at least 30 minutes over the week.
- plinkplonk 11y ago" If your manager actually did devote 30 minutes per day one-on-one giving you their full attention" that sounds like 3 hours worth of manager "full attention" every week. Half a working day, week after week, with "full attention" on me. Sounds like some kind of cult ;-) Life isn't worth living like that and I'd run for the hills ;-)
- danieltillett 11y agoIt does have the effect of binding the team together amazingly tight and ensuring everyone is pulling in the same direction. Issues that crop up are solved early rather than festering away until they get to be a huge.
- plinkplonk 11y agoyou don't need this kind of cultiness with a manager at the centre to 'bind a team tight'(from experience of working on high productivity, high focus teams). Sure you need open communication on all levels, not a manager forcing you to talk to him 3 hours every week "with undivided attention", which is just weird.