Supercharge Your One-on-One Meetings

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Most good bosses know that they should schedule regular one-on-ones with each of their team members. But fewer know exactly how to manage these meetings well, in part because organizations rarely offer relevant training. Steven Rogelberg, Chancellor's Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has spent years researching the best way to prepare for, structure, engage in, and follow up on one-on-ones. He says they're a key way to boost performance, and offers tips for ensuring that we all get more out of them. Rogelberg is author of the book Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings.

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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the H-BRI Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Allison Beard. We see a lot of advice about how to run more effective meetings.
0:49.0	Make sure the right people are in the room, circulate an agenda, solicit everyone's opinion, rotate the note-taker, leave with action items.
0:56.4	But most people don't think very carefully about the meetings that actually might be the most
1:00.2	important for individuals who want to progress in their careers and managers who want to get the best out of their team members.
1:06.0	That meeting is the one-on-one.
1:09.0	Most of us know that bosses and direct reports need to have regular check-ins, but does that really
1:14.0	happen in practice? Or do you mostly do it in the course of work and save the formal meeting
1:18.1	for performance review time? Even if you are meeting regularly, are you being thoughtful about it?
1:23.2	Do you have an agenda or do you just shoot the breeze?
1:25.6	Are you accomplishing anything?
1:27.2	Today's guest is here to explain why one-on-one meetings are so critical,
1:31.4	and how to make the most of them, whether in person or
1:33.9	virtual. Stephen Rogelberg is Chancellor's professor at the University of
1:37.8	North Carolina Charlotte. He wrote the book Glad We Met, the art and science of
1:42.2	one-on-one meetings as well as the
1:43.9	HPR article make the most of your one-on-one meetings. Stephen welcome.
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