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Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks. Let me use a quote from Managers-Tool podcast to explain our rationale about 1-on-1s.
1-on-1, the most powerful thing we can recommend to any managers in the world - To Sit down and talk to their folks on weekly basis regularly like clockwork because just chatting with your folks periodically is not a way to get to know them - It doesn’t work. And the single most important thing you can do to improve your relationship, and therefore your results with your team is to get to know the strengths and weaknesses of everybody who works for you as individuals rather than as a group.
We use our own tool (https://peoplebox.ai) and many of these questions are embedded in it but you can use these questions with any tool you like or currently using.
Comment · 6 years ago
I couldn’t agree more. Building that “radical candor” is the most important element to have any meaningful conversation or even relationships. I’ve personally found One on ones as a great platform to build such relationships and like coaching active listening and powerful questioning can help. What have you found working in building strong relationships?
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks for your kind comment and the feedback. That’s a great idea. When we created the categories, the idea was to bucket these questions based on certain type of information only like collecting feedback or understanding work relationships but I agree these can be more crisp and specific.
Comment · 6 years ago
We faced a similar problem. We've got a strong 1-on-1 culture in our startup but often struggle with what to talk so we created an ultimate list of one-on-one questions (500+) with a social flavour https://www.peoplebox.ai/t/one-on-one-meeting-template-manag...
These are for managers but can be flipped to find agenda/ questions for direct reports.
Comment · 6 years ago
It is quite nice of you to give option to disable affiliate links - though I guess no sane person would want to disable them.
Comment · 7 years ago
Slite customer here! We've been happy with Slite but could be more fast & offline support would be awesome.
For project management we've been using Trello and it is so far so good. I think I'll give Clubhouse a spin.
Comment · 7 years ago
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Comment · 8 years ago
Can someone share the mentioned NYT Article mentioned?
Comment · 12 years ago
I love what GV is doing. Future of VC is not about giving value only to their portfolio companies but also to the entire community.
YC has been doing this for a while (Essays, Startup School), which also serves as a lead for applicants.
I wish they opened up all the videos as well.
Earlier: Askmile, Practo, Markupwand.com(YCS12), Interviewstreet(YCS11), Zynga, Yahoo!, NIT Trichy, India
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