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Radical Candor: Communication at Work

Radical Candor

Careers, Relationships, Society & Culture, Business

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🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you're a boss, 1:1 meetings with your direct reports are a must-do. The purpose of a 1:1 meeting is to listen and clarify — to understand what direction each person working for you wants to head in, and what is blocking them. These meetings are your single best opportunity to listen, really listen, to the people on your team to make sure you understand their perspective on what’s working and what’s not working. On this episode of the Radical Candor podcast, Kim, Amy and Jason share tips about how to have effective 1:1s, even when you can't be together in person, and Kim sings a few notes from the Hall and Oats song "One On One." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Radical Canter podcast. I'm Kim Scott, author of
0:10.5	of Radical Cander and co-founder of Radical Cander, the company. And I'm Jason Roseoff, CEO and co-founder
0:16.7	of Radical Cander. And I'm Amy Sandler, Radical Cander's chief marketing officer and your host for the podcast,
0:23.5	Radical Cander, had a kick-ass at work without losing your humanity. On the last episode, we talked about
0:29.7	the go-to question and how you can use your one-on-one meeting to solicit feedback. This episode,
0:35.9	we're exploring the one-on-one meeting in more detail.
0:39.3	I'd love to hear, first of all, what exactly is a one-to-one meeting? What is the point of these meetings?
0:44.6	Yeah, what is the point of a one-on-one meeting? It's kind of the do re-me of management.
0:50.3	A one-on-one meeting is just a private conversation that you have with each of your direct reports on a regular basis.
0:57.2	I want to get into just the actual meeting itself. Who is responsible for the actual agenda? Is it the boss? The direct report? How does that work?
1:06.7	The direct report should set the agenda, at least in my view.
1:12.0	There's not dogma here.
1:20.5	But the way I always approach these meetings is that my direct report would come in with their list of things that they wanted to talk about.
1:27.4	And when I was going to meet with my boss, I went in prepared with a list of things that I wanted to talk to my boss about. Do you agree with that,
1:28.1	Jason? Amy? Absolutely. The simple way that I would say it is, one-on-ones are your time. If you
1:34.0	were meeting with me one-on-one, this is your time. And what I found over many years of doing that
1:39.1	is like for some people, they either instinctively or had experience doing it, they knew how to use it. And for
1:46.7	other people, I think that would get them into a little bit of trouble because essentially what
1:50.2	would happen is they would defer like tactical conversations to our one-on-one time. So like,
1:58.1	oh, this thing is going wrong and that thing is going wrong and I could
2:00.8	use help over here and I can use help over there. Like some of those things are great for one-on-one
2:06.4	conversation and some of them are not so great, specifically because if the goal of a one-on-one is
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