Recommended links about one to ones

• Quarterly check-ins
  Brienna Ransom's helpful reminder that you need to take regular time to zoom-out with your reports and reflect on longer timescales than your regular 1-1s
• How to Run Effective 1:1s 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
  Luca Rossi gives some practical advice on running 1:1s
• Why your one-on-one’s should probably be longer
  Don Neufeld on setting up your one-on-one's to enable you to talk about bigger topics and save you time
• Less status updates, more coaching
  James Stanier's advice on how not to use one-to-ones is spot on
• My approach to 1-on-1s
  Marco Roger's shares the topics that he covers in 1-to-1s
• One-on-one retrospectives
  Marcus Blankenship makes the case for introducing retrospectives into your 1-1s
• Using agile techniques to build a more inclusive team
  Kevin Goldsmith shares some invaluable tools for helping you set expectations and develop the skills of your team members in your one to ones
• Manager handoffs
  Lara Hogan guidance on how 1:1:1s can help with handing one of your reports over to another manager
• Questions for our first 1:1
  Lara Hogan shares how she approaches one to ones
• To be a better listener, embrace the awkward pause
  It is very easy to talk too much in a 1-to-1 and this is a useful technique to rebalance the conversaion, even if it feels uncomfortable at first
• What to expect when you start having 1 on 1s
  Jason Evanish provides a really good primer on what 1-to-1s are for and why they are so important
• 101 questions to ask in one on ones
  Jason Evanish's questions are a great source of ideas if you are unsure what to cover in any given 1 to 1
• You’re not listening
  Being a good listener is essential if you are to have effective 1-to-1s and this is something many of us are bad at. In this article Rands offers clear practical advice on getting better at listening
• The update, the vent, and the disaster
  Rands describes some common responses to the simple opening question, "How are you?", and offers advice on how to react to them
• The update, the vent, and the disaster
  Rands identifies some different sorts of 1-1s and how to manage them

Skip level one to ones

If you manage managers, then skip level one to ones are invaluable

• Skip Level Meetings Are About Insight, Not Distrust
  Sergio Visinoni reminds us of the value of skip level meetings, and gives great advice for making them work well.
• Why and how to do skip level 1-1s
  Jade Rubick guidance on running skip level 1-1s
• Effective skip-level meetings: A guide and templates for managers of managers
  Lena Reinhard's comprehensive guide to skip level 1-1s
• Skip level 1:1s [BEHIND A PAYWALL]
  Luca Rossi's excellent introduction to the value of skip level 1:1s and the practicalities of setting them up