Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, how to do one-on-ones with shift workers. Here we go. One of the reasons we get,

one. One of the reasons we get, well, and we get a lot of reasons, right, but one of the ones we get for not doing one-on-ones is that some managers, believe it or not, have folks working on different shifts than they themselves work.

Right? I mean, how many times have you heard that?

Yeah, a few thousand, yeah.

And after we get over being like stunned, right?

It's not hard, it's easy.

It's very easy.

Yeah, and then they say, oh, no, but I talk to him.

And my direction on those shifts don't actually want to spend time with me.

Yeah, trust me folks they do they do that's right yeah and the question is how right and we have three

recommendations one it's And then the question is how, right? And we have three recommendations.

One, it's not really a recommendation.

Is this a reminder?

When we say, do one-on-ones with everybody,

it's not so much that everybody's important.

It's the absence of everybody is really bad so

all means all everybody if they report to you you do a one-on-one with them you mean it's

not good for me if it's not good for me if I'm a I'm a direct and my boss is

doing one-on-ones with everybody else with everybody else except for yeah exactly yeah and we mean even on different shifts it doesn't matter shift we don't care what shift they're on if they report to you if you're responsible for them if you're responsible for their output if you take credit for their output if you're responsible for them, if you're responsible for their output, if you take credit for their

output, if you're responsible if they make a mistake, you do a one-on-one with them no matter what.

And the two other simple guidance is you meet them on their shift, and the way you do that is you just either

come in earlier stay late not hard okay so is there anything to say

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