Direct reports should speak for 25 minutes of a 30-minute one-on-one
Stacy Brown-Philpot · Keep humans in the equation (with TaskRabbit’s Stacy Brown-Philpot) · Oct 9, 2019 · at 14:09
TaskRabbit CEO and former Google executive Stacy Brown-Philpot shares management lessons on structuring one-on-one meetings with direct reports.
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“This meeting is about the person that you're leading, and that person needs to talk for 25 minutes in the 30 minute meeting in order to be effective in their job.”
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