[peterbozso]

We do it like this at GitLab and it's very effective: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/leadership/1-1/

[ricardobeat]

> Consider encouraging direct reports to keep their 1:1 document open in their browser throughout the week

A bit unexpected, doesn't seem healthy to me. Surely there are more important things happening in the average week other than career progression?

EDIT: I better stop reading this as I've always liked GitLab, but am catching some heavy Lumon vibes :D this is one of the possible agenda items: "SING - if added, the person who added it leads a singalong with all willing participants in the meeting" (at https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/leadership/1-1/suggeste...)

[jrockway]

Is there really anything more important than career progression? You're there to get paid; your manager is there to help you get paid more.

[mytailorisrich]

This sounds horrible.

Once a week is way too often in my opinion, and the whole setting is much too formal.

I prefer 1-to-1s to be informal without agendas. Once a month is enough. It is a time to build rapport and trust and obviously it has to be "synchronous" and in person if possible.

[Hamuko]

I used to do every other week with my previous manager and I feel like that was an appropriate pace. Unfortunately my new manager wants to do it every week and that's definitely way too frequent.

[vnkr]

That looks like a lot of work.

[stronglikedan]

Could be worse, like a meeting with more than two people.

[dailydetour123]

Wow, that’s really helpful and quite inspiring to see an org doing it like this. Thanks for sharing!