One On Ones
topic on 7 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
In Depth
the Knowledge Project
David Senra
Lenny's Podcast
the Official SaaStr Podcast
20VC
8 statements about One On Ones, every show
Ross: Replace one-on-ones and private emails with open communication to eliminate politics
“And so when you are leading groups of people, if you want to reduce the amount of politics and people going off and, you know, forming side cliques and all this, stop having one-on-ones, have big meetings with everyone who you want to tell something and tell t…”
Small mixed-group feedback discussions are more constructive than traditional 1-on-1s
“Instead of one-on-ones, we try to do like smaller groups of discussions, like one-on-three or whatever, one-on-four. And we try to bring like people from within the team, but maybe someone who joined recently, someone who's been there for a while, someone who'…”
James Gibson: Revolut Business is cutting 1-on-1s to focus on product reviews
“I'm actually reducing them at the moment where we're pushing more into product reviews.”
Norton: Unstructured 'this is your time' one-on-ones are delinquent management
“So many people run one-on-ones as like, okay, this is your time.
You know, I'm here to be a resource to you.
I think that's a sort of a delinquent version of running one-on-ones.
I prefer to give people a structure to use.
And if you can bring some structure, …”
Shackleton: Discussing product work in 1-on-1s is an anti-pattern
“A lot of work and project work tends to get discussed in one on ones. And actually that's like an, it's really an anti pattern. It's a pattern you should try to avoid. So if you're talking to your manager about product work what's not happening in that moment …”
Cole: Refining marriage check-ins improved professional one-on-ones with her team
“It was rooted in one-on-ones that I already had with my team, but my one-on-ones with my team got better as my check-ins with my husband became more refined and consistent.”
Kat Cole: Monthly relationship check-ins directly improved team one-on-ones
“And so we have done this every month since we met. It has been an incredible enabler to our relationship and then reverse engineered it to have a similar practice for my business. It was rooted in one-on-ones that I already had with my team, but my one-on-ones…”
Fournier: Regular one-on-ones prevent minor workplace issues from causing resignations
“The reason that you have one-on-ones, the reason that you try very hard to honor whatever frequency is the right frequency for your team, Even if you don't have anything planned to talk about is that like, you need to make it comfortable for them to feel like …”