Weekly Checklist: The Best Way to Have 1:1 Meetings with Your Team Members
FP Weekly members receive a practical and cutting-edge checklist of issues to consider, action steps to take, and goals to accomplish to ensure you remain on the top of your game when it comes to workplace relations and employment law compliance. This week we are republishing a checklist of items to consider when overseeing one-on-one meetings with team members – an especially timely topic given how many organizations are preparing for annual evaluations this time of year.
Why 1:1 Meetings?
One-on-one (or 1:1) meetings are an essential tool to make sure your organization is operating smoothly and are a crucial part of an effective human resources strategy. They are regularly scheduled meetings – perhaps weekly, perhaps monthly, or at some other regular cadence – between supervisors and team members. The sky’s the limit when it comes to setting an appropriate agenda for them, and each relationship warrants its own individual meeting style.
These meetings can be a win-win for your organization. Your supervisors get to test out their managerial skills in low-stress conditions and help build trust with their team members. The employees who are meeting with their supervisors will feel more valued and heard through these regular channels. Through these regular check-ins problems can be addressed before they fester and solutions can be achieved to keep your team’s work flowing effectively. As a result, productivity and effectiveness should increase and HR problems should decrease.
