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Rob's avatar

I've also often questioned the advice that speaks of weekly 1-on-1s as "must haves". If it's weekly, then it's likely only 15-30 mins, but that's not enough time to go deep on topics like career planning and emotional well being. Nor do those topics need to be discussed at such regular frequency. Currently I run my 1-on-1s every 6-8 weeks. 1 hour per engineer, fully completed pre-meeting forms and agenda so it's a focused discussion. That's been working well for the past year with a team of 10 engineers.

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Suresh Choudhary's avatar

Yeah I have to started to cancel my 1:1s for a couple of reasons:

- we have already been meeting and collaborating regularly. So I'm already caught up on what they're doing and the feedback is on the spot.

- (more controversial) employee doesn't come prepared to the 1:1s or they don't bring any topics or they are happy with status quo.

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