Making 1-on-1s Run Out of Time

Your 1-on-1s Should Run Out Of Time

The best feedback I got this week started with a warning: "I mean this in the best way possible..."

My DR then admitted he couldn't imagine what we'd talk about for 45 mins in our 1-on-1. He thought we'd run out of things to say.

We ended up running out of time.

That’s the goal. Turn 1-on-1s from a status report into a conversation so valuable that 45 minutes isn't enough.

This article was originally published on https://craftengineer.com/. It was written by a human and polished using grammar tools for clarity.
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