Exactly! Managers should be having regular 1:1s with direct reports—it mystifies me the number of managers I've met that concede that they only have these once

Exactly! Managers should be having regular 1:1s with direct reports—it mystifies me the number of managers I've met that concede that they only have these once a year at performance review time. How does anyone expect an employee to improve if they're not getting frequent, clear feedback on what's going right and wrong?