6 Tips for Productive 1:1 Meetings with Your Manager

Very professinal and good advise. Two feedback from my side, 30 minutes is not enough for such deep topics... Second, if all your advice to work, both parties must respect and value each other. I have seen many people from both parties who do not value the other party.

I just fell in love. I will do this😊

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 ❤

Hey Jeff! Its an old video but it come handy for me since I will have my first one on one meeting with my Manager in a couple of days. I've alredy sent the invite and prepared the spreadsheet to keep track but I would love to get your input on how to handle it for the first time. Thank you tons!

Absolute gold

Thank you very much.

thank yooooou that was really helpful

Where can I find the google template he used? I want to covert it over to excel

Hi Jeff again. Just to tell you that I've been relying on your videos to survive through my very first days at a big corporation. The content is perfectly useful and usable.
Thank you so much 🌱🌱🤩🤩

Wow, this is great advice.

Thank you for this! I was having the hardest time finding something from the employee perspective!

What about 1:1 that are meant to micromanage?

Where are these magical workplaces where managers have 1 on 1 conversations with employees?

I've been working fulltime for the past 18 years for several employers and lots of managers, and never had one who even seemed even remotely interested in one on one meetings (tbh, there was one who sought my advice sometimes, but she quickly moved on to a director job). I hardly ever saw them have one on one meetings with colleagues. I've had maybe 5 yearly performance reviews in total. To me it appears like the managers spend all their time on either their excel sheets, upper management or external parties and actively avoiding talking to the people they manage.

I've been consistent in achieving above average and voicing ideas for improvements whenever given the chance (which are often succesfully implemented). I'd love to work in an environment where managers are genuinely interested in the people they manage, as I would be in their place, as I think this would enable be to me so much more effective, even if it means working in a completely different field.

When I try to look for jobs, how can I identify opportunities where manager-supported growth is real and possible?

I would love to have a 1:1 with Tim Cookie as well.

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!!

This is amazing - thank you for this video. Could you create more content around managing up, professional habits with a manager, best practices from employee to manager relationships, etc?

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Rose, Thorn and Bud FTW! Thanks as always , Jeff!

Hi Jeff! This is amazing! Can we get a copy of your spreadsheet template?

Great vid! Love the excel idea format :)

Hi Jeff, thanks for sharing this. Anyway, could you give more examples on how to use Actions Items and Notes? Thanks in advance!

So Glad I found this Channel. Thank you Jeff. I have some catching up to do.

Thank you so much for this Jeff.

Jeff this is awesome content! If you've made a professional development 1:1 video, please let me know, I could really use some direction on that. Keep up the great work!! You are a superstar!

Grateful I found your channel! So many learnings packed in each video. 👌

Jeff. Bro. How could you leave us hanging without the professional development 1:1 structure? (in the voice of Greta Thunberg) How dare you!? Thanks for everything you do and the tons of value you bring to so many of us.

Enjoyed your video!! On point with everything you said!! I appreciate that you jump straight to the point and identify key things on the spot!

Thanks for the content, Jeff! It really helped me with my team! Wish you all the best!!!

Jeff's character and videos are so relatable. Is the professional development video in the works or released yet?

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

A little late here but once again thanks Jeff, I really enjoyed the video! I am in the latter stage of my career (final third), but still find that Jeff does an amazing job of providing the perfect amount of relevant content in a simple, relatable format that has the perfect mix of data and examples to easily apply to real life scenarios for people at all career stages, not to mention his great sense of humor and crisp organized style. Thank you Jeff! I try to watch your videos as often as possible and actually apply your suggestions to my life for better more fulfilling performance and efficiency. I'm sure it is not easy to balance a full time job, keep your videos going, and oh maybe have some part of a fulfilling personal life 😀 but on behalf of all of the people out there who value and respect your work, THANK YOU! I always look forward to watching your videos and do so of a morning when my life is at it's quietest so I can fully absorb the content, take notes and develop courses of action for application to my life.

As for the Professional Development comment, YES most definitely I too like the others would love too see a video of yours on that and maybe your suggestions of how to plan, facilitate, and follow-up on those awkward annual meetings like that, which we all have. Other items to consider in a video of that sort might be 1) "how to handle constructive criticism from your manager", turning the negative into a positive re-course of action or b) how to score well on an annual performance review c) how to effectively use the corporate structured performance review process to our advantage throughout the year versus checking the box at the end of the year, etc.

A couple of other topics of interest for video suggestions I wondered about is:
1) How to excel in the corporate world as a Consultant/Contingent worker. Realizing this differs across companies based on the vision, goals, and policies but I bet you could do your magic and come up with a concise and entertaining clip on the topic. It's a very important subject matter in the corporate workplace today for people at every career stage and if managed effectively could be quite advantageous to everyone involved on either side (consultant/employee), rather than the "us vs. them" mentality that is so often followed and most big shops around the world.

2) So you got the job! video 🙂 I think that rarely do people stay in 1 job for their entire career anymore. I don't know the stats but I believe I've heard average corporate tenure is 3-5 years. Take that # X the # of working people in the global corporate world and that is a large number of people that often change jobs starting over again and again to apply this information. With that and as a part of that population, we could all use a little Jeff Su magic on how to make the best off it and succeed above the rest (well, the rest of the people who don't know about or watch your videos). I envisioned a 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 month + plan of simple steps or guidelines to suggest for success at each milestone, items to focus on for continued success, things to avoid altogether, and how to exceed leadership's expectations in a rapidly changing world. Or something like that. lol

Thank you again Jeff for everything you do. Even though you are amazing at what you do, I'm sure you have days that you question the reward over the amount of work and cost to keep this all going just for the benefit of the fans. Profit aside, you surely must have days where you want to keep your secrets of success to yourself and let the rest of the world figure it out to enjoy more free time for yourself. But on behalf of your fan population a huge thank you is in store and kudos to you for doing what you do. You have no idea the benefit you provide to those of us who look forward to and rely on your work. You are a natural born leader and in addition to improving the lives of your fan base with this content, you will hopefully one day be rewarded for all of the hard work and dedication of blood, sweat, and tears that you've endured over the years to make this happen.

Wishing you much success Jeff in everything you do! You deserve it all but most importantly hopefully you will receive more than the expected reward on returns. Apologies for the email length.

thank you so much for these pro tips

Love this video! Just a personal opinion - for some people it might be helpful to add a "Preparation" or "Pre Work" column before the Agenda column to note down what to prep or do before the meeting! For example, send out pre-read, read the product introduction, etc. And therefore the logic of the columns (pre work, agenda, action items) actually follows your before (though slightly different by definition), during, after meeting framework :) but understand that it could be noted separately in other to-do lists as well!

thanks Jeff, your videos are super helpful 😍🥰

I love this format, thank you!!

Hi Jack, great videos. As a professional finance person, would you plz share your experience and advices to us regards to business partnering? Thanks hips

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Sometimes the tabs I pin gets lost, tips?

Professional development video please

This is extremely spot on, helpful, and entertaning. Thank you Jeff!

Hey! Any chance you ended up creating a video on personal development 1:1? 🤭I have a quarterly meeting coming up, that I would like to be prepared for. Great tips, really appreciate it!!

Super insightful on how to structure manager 1:1, thank you! Please do share a professional development 1:1 structure video as business agenda overrides often career development

Hey @jeff thanks so much for these! I thought I saw the 1on1 sheet on your website a while back…can you share that again? Thanks!!

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? 🤩

Hi Jeff! I was wondering when you will make this kind of video for professional development track :D
Thanks a lot for making the videos for us

@Jeff: Great videos and very to-the-point. I have watched many of your videos and I must say they are all fantastic and very high-quality! Can you please also do a video on developing self-confidence (especially at the workplace), being assertive, and being vocal at a workplace please?
I think that will benefit a lot of people including me (an introvert). Thank you very much, Jeff!

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