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
• Questions for our first 1:1
  Lara Hogan shares how she approaches one to ones
• 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

• 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