This is essentially standard 1:1 at my prior company. It worked amazingly well. People aren’t robots. They get tired. They get distracted. They can’t show up f

This is essentially standard 1:1 at my prior company. It worked amazingly well. People aren’t robots. They get tired. They get distracted. They can’t show up for work every day and give perfect, 100%. I’ve been asked and asked that type of question frequently to help understand if I needed to be mindful of temporary circumstances. It often works out that one person on the team is feeling high energy when someone else is feeling low. It’s not permanent, so you make minor short term tweaks. Particularly, on the small stuff. I’d tried to go to someone who’s feeling higher energy. Over time, it tends to even out. Or, at the very least, people who are frequently high energy feel satisfied with a full queue while others have a chance to refocus. At some point, that probably means high energy person is going to get some slack to do a bit more 20% type of work. You end up with a team that delivers on its core competencies while keeping most people happy.