Read Now The Connection Blueprint: Your leadership guide to a year of one-on-one meetings RTF
The Connection Blueprint is a guide for leaders at all levels to shorten prep time and effortlessly increase the productivity of employee one-on-one meetings. Much more than a checklist or a "how-to", The Connection Blueprint does the heavy lifting of one-on-one meeting preparation by providing a full year’s worth of proven prompts. The guide saves time and enables managers to efficiently plan for each one-on-one meeting in just minutes. The strategically developed questions allow managers to quickly and thoughtfully engage employees in a discussion designed to further employee growth, and leave each session with stronger communication and weekly objectives. "The importance of the employee one-on-one meeting cannot be understated. Beyond a status update on projects, this may be the single-most important opportunity for a manager to build a strong business relationship, improve communication, and focus on talent development," says Debbie Waggoner, President of Nodus Inc. "With greater demands on time and a growing remote workforce, communication and development are getting harder."Meeting fatigue, stress, and overwork are often much higher when collaborating remotely, making it easier to push off meetings that don’t seem to add value. The decision to receive status updates via email rather than have another meeting is tempting, but experienced leaders agree that well-executed employee one-one-ones, can prove to be a strong motivator for improving productivity, performance, and morale. “A highly-respected leader was working to identify good questions for use in one-on-one meetings, specifically, questions to create strong engagement and openness. The executive asked me, ‘Can you just give me a list of questions? I don’t have time to think of these each week!’ That was the catalyst for The Connection Blueprint.” Leaders at all levels who are striving to get better at developing high performing teams will benefit from this well thought-out guide. The Connection Blueprint is easy to use and is available in print and e-versions. Managers may choose to use one guide for each employee or simply select from the guide what is needed for each one-on-one.
