How To Run 1:1s With Your Manager (Template & Guide) #careertiktok #careeradvice #communicationskill

[0:00]Okay, how to structure one to ones with your manager. You're doing a one to one with your manager every one or two weeks. It's one of the most important things you do at work, but no one actually shows you how to do it. I was a senior marketing manager at Google and this is exactly how I would run my one to ones with my manager and how my team would run them with me. By the way, there's no right or wrong way to do this. I'm sharing my favorite structure and what I found worked best for me over the years. So, I really love keeping things simple and I'll show you how easy this is. First, there's really two types of one to ones, regular ones and more career focus one. Those are longer term on your development or more deeply reflective of your performance. Some people will ask career focus questions in regular one to ones, that's fine. The reason I like to separate them out is because it helps you get into a different headspace and it also helps your manager prep more thoughtful answers for you. So, today I'm talking about the regular one to ones. These are typically more work focused and grounded in the present. Remember, your one to one isn't a laundry list of everything you're working on. Send a separate status update email to your manager outside your one to one time. That keeps your one on one time, which is kind of precious for more important discussion. Here's the one to one structure that I like best. I would always keep this doc open throughout the week and add to it as things came up. That way your one to one kind of plans itself and you don't actually need to do that much prep. Keep it simple, a couple of bullet points in each section and make sure you're structuring it so the most important things are at the top and the quicker updates are down the bottom. That way you can just fly through things if you're running out of time at the end. Headlines, if your manager only remembers two or three things, what do you want them to be? Highlight the big news items of the week, any major wins, anything at risk, important updates from other teams or clients. Discuss and decide things you want to clarify or workshop with your manager, things you're stuck on, things that they need to make a decision on. For those things, send pre-reads ahead of time, so they can come with their thoughts prepared. Quick things and key dates like time off, personal updates or key project milestone. Action items, keep a running list of your action items at the top of your dock and get into the habit of crossing those off every week. If you want me to share this template with you, you comment template and I'll send you a link. Last point, but it's important. Start your one to one by asking your manager how they are or how their weeks been. It's not small talk, it's about understanding the context of how they might show up in that meeting.