One on ones how to: - introduction to one-to-one - 1on1 agenda - tips and tricks - main highlights for one on ones - agenda 🎓 If you ever had a nudge to improve your 1️⃣:1️⃣s, this was simply it! 🚀 Our #6️⃣ 🇨🇿 CZ Engineering leadership meetup 🦉 has been a pure pleasure, including the networking afterparty 🍻 The highlight of the session? ⭐️ “Don’t jump to a solution. Guide and coach.” 👉 If we instantly solution/manage every tiny problem our direct reports come up with, we don't teach them to find the path on their own. Ultimately, we, all-mighty managers, are becoming a bottleneck, the org does not scale, and people don't grow that fast.

1. Engineering Leaders CZ 🇨🇿
We share our real-life experience 💪
We are leaders worth following ❤️
Stabilize your teams serie
Community

2. Mission
Engineering Leaders CZ 🇨🇿
The more we help to raise first-time engineering
managers in our 🇨🇿 territory, the faster we elevate local
companies and the talent 🚀, getting us on par with
software citadels like Berlin 🇩🇪 or London 🇬🇧.
We connect engineering leaders in the Czech software
industry and share situations, thoughts, experiences,
and specific tips and tricks that simply work.

4. 📝

5. Give me a scary picture of a
grandma screaming in the corner
when I ask her how she's doing.

7. Why having 1:1s ?

8. Foundation
🦉Duration: 60
mins
• 10 mins
preparation
• 40 mins
show time 🚀
• 10 mins
summary,
action items
and close
your eyes 👀
Cadence
• bi-weekly
• weekly if
needed of
for managers
Group
• in 1-2 days
Owned by
• 🦉a direct
report

10. ⭐️ Initial 1:1s
• session #1
• I open-up my profile: who am I, how to communicate with me, my principles, my way of working
• I want to know more about the person: professional or personal interests, 🍔/🍻 time
• “Your success is my success.”
• ➡️ “I’m human”
• session #2
• Our roadmap, strategy, open work.
• ➡️ “Your mission”
• session #3
• What areas you want most support with?
• ➡️ ”I’m ready to help”
• session #4
• Find out Career ambitions for 6-24 months and personal goals.
• Help to create an IDP/PDP plan.
• ➡️ ”I want you to succeed”
Get your ammunition ready 🏹

11. Run 1:1s
1. Greeting
2. ⭐️”How can I help?”
3. ⭐️ Review your notes/action items ⬅ Lead by example.
4. Operational situations
• ⭐️ Set priorities. “What is the topmost thing you focus (work) on?”
• ⭐️ Reduce solutioning and guide 👉
5. ⭐️ Growth: How are you doing with your IDP/PDP?
6. ⭐️ Write down action items and owners
7. ⭐️ Provide feedback: Masaryk
8. ⭐️ Be grateful and human: “Thanks.”
Agenda

12. Run 1:1s
⭐️ “Don’t jump to solution.
Guide and coach.”
~ Leader worth following
Situation

13. Run 1:1s
Tooling
⭐️ Async
• Direct private channel
• Meeting notes and owners.
• Automated meeting nudge.
• Write down questions as you go.
• Semaphore rule 🚥
• Attention to ”It’ll wait time”

14. Success indicator 1:1s
Status update << Growth an, trust.

15. More boost to 1:1s
• “I don’t interfere” promise to myself
• “I don’t solution” promise to myself
• https://1on.one
• walk 🚶♂️

16. F**k it, I’m just a dev

17. Top idea
I come back
with

18. go.marian.coach/1on1s