Welcome to Manager Tools. Rolling out one-on-ones, the briefing. Here we go.

This cast answers these questions. How do I tell my team I'm going to start one-on-ones?

How should I brief my team on one-on-ones?

What questions am I likely to get about one-on-ones? Well if you want answers to these questions

and more, keep listening.

The most successful managers we know do two things right. We have a new product to help you do those two things and be a successful manager.

First, they know their people because they have regular one-on-ones.

Secondly, they give frequent performance communication. That is feedback.

It's easy to start well and then let things slide. We know because we've done it too. That's why we created

Roadmap, an app for your smartphone which will remind you what to do and win. And because

it's an app we stuffed in all the podcasts you need to make sure you're doing things right.

Roadmap doesn't just teach you how to be a better manager.

It puts us in your pocket every step of the way.

Look for more information on roadmap on the Managers Tools website coming in October.

It's amazing to me, Wendy, how many times I hear about managers

they start something new, like 101s for example,

and then just like they just start it they don't

tell their team they don't have any conversations and people are left

wondering what's coming and always negative right because if you don't know what's coming and

you don't understand it and it's just been sprung upon you there's always

anxiety about it if you never think oh this is going to be a good thing you think so really I think in my

entire 30 something year management career I think every time I've done something new and I haven't

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