6 Tips for Productive 1:1 Meetings with Your Manager

🥂 By now, we all know how important a role our managers play in our professional development. So in this video, I share 6 Tips for Productive 1:1 Meetings with Your Manager that you can apply immediately in your next one on one with your boss!

If you think about it, it's in both you and your manager's best interests to have effective 1 on 1 meetings, since constructive 1:1s throughout the year makes performance reviews a breeze. With routine 1:1s, review time can be more about goals and the year ahead instead of constructive feedback from the past 🙌

The problem is that most of us (I fell victim to this as well) take a rather passive approach to 1:1 meetings. Case in point: If you run a quick Google search, you'll find a LOT of resources teaching managers how to conduct 1:1's with us, but very few resources teaching us how to manage up effectively!

To make the most out of your next one on one meeting with the boss, you want to prepare an agenda beforehand, have a robust structure during the 1:1 meeting, and follow up afterwards.

Let me know how your next 1:1 meeting goes 😉

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:20 Why 1:1's are Important
01:01 How to Prepare Before a 1:1
02:49 What to say During the 1:1
04:42 How to Follow Up after a 1:1
05:45 Summary of 1:1 Best Practices

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[fangzhi_zhao]

Jeff is like a close friend whom you go to for all kinds of workplace questions. 😀 You can count on him to give you some of the most useful tips for almost any situation you can think of.

[erikaso_]

*1000% yes to the professional development track, please!* Things have gone busier now that we've downsized our Marketing team, so there hasn't been a lot of growth happening. Would love the insight!

[isaac]

As a first-generation American, the first one to attend college, work in corporate America, and be financially stable in my family, I deeply appreciate this video. You're my only source for this type of advice. Thank you so much!!

[dirtrockground]

Jeff, I'm starting my first full-time professional job very soon and I feel like your videos are allowing me to download so much info about how to succeed in the workplace. I studied more technical and theoretical material, so these videos are giving me a ton of ideas about how to wrangle relationships as effectively as I can wrangle data.

[sodahole]

I literally watch your videos to hype me up before I have to be a big boy manager and you help me remember that I know what I’m doing. I love your work ❤

[lillogadget]

Love the spreadsheet tip Jeff! So much more effective to see everything at a glance rather than have every meeting on separate notes. Where have you been all my life??? Need more professional development videos please!! 😀

[DemetriPanici]

I’m so lucky to have a great relationship with my direct manager. It’s hard to find that nowadays

[coreyhence]

The content was solid. I like the rose, thorn and bud method. I also like the Google sheet structure for developmental convos. I would love to content on how to contribute in meetings when you aren't well verse in the topics. How to influence better within the org and across your org.

[m.rajeshkumar]

I'm not working just a fresher, but by this I learned something useful and now I feels like I'm a step ahead than others and use this while I was in those situation. Thanks Jeff brother for making this.

[TechwithLucy]

This is exactly what I needed :) thanks

[JeffSu]

Any guesses what my manager would say if she watches this video? 🙃

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:20 Why 1:1's are Important
01:01 How to Prepare Before a 1:1
02:49 What to say During the 1:1
04:42 How to Follow Up after a 1:1
05:45 Summary of 1:1 Best Practices

[ReinaldoGomez]

Jeff your videos are always full of quality content. I always walk away with a gem that I can apply to my professional life. Great work as always 👍

[ycxiurh]

This was so useful, I would love to see more videos like this! One thing I struggle the most is ‘managing up’ you’ve mentioned. And since my 1:1 is only once every six weeks, I’m really trying to get the most out of it 😄

[graphicsxvisual]

Though I'm a college student but I still think this will be something extremely important that I'll need in the future, Thanks Jeff for covering this up !!

[alfredli]

This is amazing Jeff, especially for someone like me, who doesn't work with their managers on day-to-day's. I am about to set up a more frequent 1-on-1 cadence with my manager and facilitate the meetings following your tips!

[beiyulu]

5:16 This is super necessary! Grab every idea that's worth of updating and discussing!

[luwileo]

I've rewatched this a couple of times and always find it refreshing! Would love a video on 1:1 specifically for professional development!

[Christiana-J]

Here again to quickly get some inspirations before my 1:1 with the new manager soon 😬 you have no idea how your videos help your viewers to learn and grow. TYSM Jeff!!

Professional 1:1 video please when you have time for that? 🤩

[adrianabarreiros]

Not directly applicable to my situation right now, but I still enjoyed watching! It's great how you always include some little nuggets that apply to any context, e.g., adding relevant attachments to calendar events. I've started doing this (in MS Outlook) and find it saves me quite a bit of time. Extra productivity tip, y'all: if you want to count to six using just one hand, thus saving the other one for multitasking, the Chinese hand gesture system for numbers has got you covered at 0:53. Nope, that was not an extremely laid back rock 'n' roll salute ;)

[halitgoeral]

Hey Jeff, thank you for all of your videos and input. I love the way you present and more importantly the input and added value you give. I get a lot of out of your videos! Thanks for doing this!