{"id":1465,"date":"2016-12-27T18:40:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T02:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2016-12-27T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T02:52:15","slug":"a-better-way-to-do-1-on-1s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-better-way-to-do-1-on-1s\/","title":{"rendered":"A better way to do 1-on-1 meetings with your team"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been almost 4 months at SirionLabs. I started<\/a> as a Chief Marketing Officer, to drive a data-driven marketing culture. Within a month, I started working on activities which were ancillary to what a marketer is supposed to do\u2014soon my R&R got expanded (more on this, in future).<\/p>\n

My immediate challenge was how do I get acquainted myself to a large cross-functional team. I don\u2019t like sending e-mails to a large distribution saying, \u201cMeet your new boss\u201d. Being on the other side of the table, I always hated those e-mails coming from someone who was many hops away.<\/p>\n

A better idea was I thought, why not simply organize 1-on-1 meetings.<\/p>\n

The big question was how do I get them excited to talk, get them engaged with me, still have a formal communication, but break-the-ice right away.<\/p>\n

In the past, I had mixed success with 1-on-1s with large teams–they were a hit or miss. When my former bosses did 1-on-1s with me I always thought, \u201cIs he even listening to me?\u201d, \u201cDoes he even know what I\u2019m working on?\u201d.<\/p>\n

I did not want my extended team think about me the same way. Plus, I wanted to deep dive into their inner-workings, what they do, what excites them, what demotivates them, etc. etc. The theory was that if the discussion started within the context of their day-to-day work, the answers would be easily found. I hypothesized.<\/p>\n

A better way to do 1-on-1 is to start with a demo, get the team member present what they are working on, present an idea, and then do the formal 1-on-1. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a screen grab of the agenda of many such 1-on-1s I did last week, this week and many more to go the next week.<\/p>\n

\"1-on-1-screengrab\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to continue to use this format in future. I found it engaging and made both the parties to open up quickly and start at a common ground.<\/p>\n

PS> It\u2019s a different topic altogether that the 1-on-1s are not an easy feat by itself when you have dozens of people who are 13 and half timezones away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A better way to do 1-on-1 is to start with a demo, get the team member present what they are working on, present an idea, and then do the formal 1-on-1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[152],"tags":[337,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}