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It 100% depends on the manager and how they use these meetings. I use them to catch up with the team. To give them undivided attention. And primarily to allow
by hightrix 3y ago
It 100% depends on the manager and how they use these meetings.
I use them to catch up with the team. To give them undivided attention. And primarily to allow them to vent in a closed setting. When neither of us has much to say, we end them early. Sometimes they last 5 minutes, other days 45.
I’ve done experiments where we’d do 1on1s for a while then stop doing them. Inevitably, in the next retro, at least 1 person would complain about us cancelling 1on1s.
Like everything in corporate business, they are as useful as you make them.
- deprecative 3y agoGood lord I'd never vent with a co-worker especially a boss. That's a quick way to become an outsider on the team. >I’ve done experiments where we’d do 1on1s for a while then stop doing them. Inevitably, in the next retro, at least 1 person would complain about us cancelling 1on1s. Did you restart the 1:1 just for that person or persons? Let the rest of us not bother with that white lie factory?