Why Scheduling Is The Most Important Component of One On Ones - Part 2

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Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Scheduling your One On Ones is surprisingly the most important component of One On Ones. Too many managers mistakenly believe that they are “too busy” to do One On Ones becuase of their full calendars. But scheduling them is actually more important than having weekly One On Ones. Why is that? Our data show why. And directs tell us why when we ask them. And for those who are just getting started, what rules should I use in scheduling my One On Ones.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools.
0:02.3	This is Sarah.
0:03.8	And this is Mark.
0:04.8	Today's podcast, Why Scheduling is the most important component of one-on-ones, part two of two.
0:12.3	The questions this cast answers are, do I really need to schedule my one-on-ones?
0:18.2	Does scheduling one-on-ones improve their effectiveness? Do biweekly or monthly one-on-ones? Does scheduling one-on-ones improve their effectiveness? Do bi-weekly or monthly
0:23.8	one-on-ones work? If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.
0:31.1	Before we get started, did you know we will soon be in Silicon Valley, Cooper Tino, to be exact,
0:36.1	March 25th and 26th, with our effective manager
0:38.9	and effective communicator conferences. Register online to join us at manager-dash-tools.com
0:46.2	forward slash register. Now to the show. Now, let's get to what directs say about scheduling.
0:55.5	And this is a lot of anecdotal stuff through interviews we conducted.
1:02.0	A manager might still believe that scheduling isn't that important, right?
1:08.5	No, even though the data clearly prove it, but the results in retention
1:13.8	data isn't all we learned. That is, from interviewing thousands of directs about the effects
1:20.9	of their one-on-ones with their manager in our studies, we interviewed those whose managers had schedule one-on-ones and whose
1:32.0	managers hadn't scheduled one-on-ones to be able to make some differentiation again, even on a
1:39.3	deeper level between those two groups of had them, but scheduled and not.
1:45.2	Right.
1:45.5	And of course, the ultimate driver is results from attention.
1:48.9	We say this before.
1:49.8	We have a podcast called Welcome Today.
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