Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's show, Pier 1-on-1's, part 2. Here we go. So on to our next point which is asking for the meeting itself. Okay so now we're

the logistics of how do you schedule this meeting with your peer. Yeah look we

don't recommend you go to your peer

and ask for a standing meeting, starting now

and going on forever for a half an hour long,

where you get 15 minutes and then they get 15 minutes, right?

We don't recommend you get too fancy

about the scope or the title or the agenda.

If you call it a weekly update, you'll be much more likely to get a yes.

Trust me, I tried this years ago.

And if you asked for a weekly update, or if you just ask for an update and then turn it into a weekly meeting, you will do much better.

Okay?

And depending upon your relationship, you know, you don't want to ask for a standing meeting.

But you could if you have a good relationship, say, hey, let's meet every week.

You know, if Mike and I were peers, we've known each other for a long time, he said,

dude, let's have a weekly meeting standing weekly meeting okay

I okay standing meetings are much scarier than a one-off 15 minute update and if the

update goes well after a couple of weeks as we have seen it do over and over again your

peer is going to have started taking 15 minutes of his or her own and will come

around to the idea that this probably ought to be a standing meeting after all

and then you have success.

That's good.

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