Welcome to Manager Tools.

This is Sarah.

And this is Kate.

Today's podcast, How to Get Subordinate Managers to Do One-on-Ones, Part 2 of 2.

The questions this cast answers are, how can I get subordinate managers to do one-on-ones?

How can I measure whether or not my managers are doing their one-on-ones?

Do I need to set up a reporting system for my subordinate managers one-on-ones? If you want answers to these questions and

more, keep listening. Wow, it's already early December and you know you'll be swamped with

year-end and holiday obligations. So now is the perfect time to lock in your organizational training if you're thinking about hosting us in the first half of 2025.

We want to support you and there is no deposit required. Contact Maggie by emailing her at customer service at manager-tools.com to be prepared to kick

off 2025 with known and plan training for your team. Kate mentioned earlier, folks, too many

managers think that all measurement has to include systems and reporting, and while it

often does those public, visual, and digital systems take time to set up. And in many cases,

those systems we have for tracking things often aren't even checked. Sometimes they're cool.

We suspect, with AI involved, they'll be way cooler, but they also obscure the original

organizational measurement system, which is asking questions.

Any time, by the way, if you're an executive and you feel like you should ask a question, just do it.

Just do it.

You probably thought a hundred times.

If my boss is asking about it, she must care about it.

Surely, you can remember going to a meeting with her and you spend a bunch of time talking about

X but she spent all over time asking about Y and you go back to your desk and you start getting

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