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One-on-Ones are the
Heartbeat of Managing
Make Them Your Weekly Practice
Did you know…
…management is like yoga practice?
That’s because there’s
not one thing you
do as a manager and
then suddenly
everything is okay.
Management is
a series of
small actions
you do.
Some you do
daily, some
weekly, some
monthly etc.
That’s why management is a practice
like a yoga practice – you do the work
and you get the results
It’s not about
being
perfect.
It’s not about trying to fix
everything in one go in the
annual performance review
It’s about showing up
with the right
intentions and
getting the
work done
What I’m going to
cover in this section
are some ways that a
regular one-on-one
practice is going to
help you because of
their rhythm.
You know
how things
run
behind?
We get
distracted,
we forget
This happens to you
and your employees
and then next thing the
important project is
delayed and over
budget
But regular
one-on-ones
keep you and
your employees
on time
It keeps your
employees on time
because let’s face it
even the best
employees do better
with a little follow up
and positive re-
enforcement
And your tardy
employees
need follow
up like
oxygen
And it’s not just
about keeping your
employees on time,
regular one-on-ones
keep bosses on
time too
Let’s face up to
the personal
responsibility
we have as a boss
to keep things
going forward
I admit that without
some type of
drumbeat to keep
things moving
forward I let my
perfection
tendencies get the
better of deadlines
Not to mention
my own
distractions
and shoddy
memory
I mean who are we
kidding – we are
probably just as bad as our employees when
it comes to deadlines
Regular one-on-
ones are how I
keep myself
on my toes
And you know it’s true because:
when I get an action from a
meeting I hardly ever take care of
it immediately
My excuse is
because it seems
like I spend my
whole day rushing
from one meeting to
the next
And if you’re
anything like me, far
too many actions drift
until there is a
deadline
So you could
say that
meetings
make work
happen
Because
there’s a
furious rush of
activity
clearing off
actions before
the next
meeting
It’s not an ideal
situation and I’m not
proud to admit it, but I
know it’s reality
for a lot of people
So my strange
combination of skills is that I’m a yoga teacher
and chartered accountant.
And to be good at yoga you
need to be good at a bunch
of different things…
• You need to be flexible,
• You need to be flexible,
• Have strength,
• You need to be flexible,
• Have strength,
• You need balance plus focus,
• You need to be flexible,
• Have strength,
• You need balance plus focus,
• Awareness of your body and,
• You need to be flexible,
• Have strength,
• You need balance plus focus,
• Awareness of your body and,
• Breath control
And how you get
good at these is
simple – you have
to practice
And in this practice,
you practice each skill
and slowly get better
at the parts and you
get better at the
whole
Now being a
boss is similar –
there are certain
key skills
you need to
master
These skills are so
important that I call
them the
Foundational
Management
Skills
The
Cornerstones in
the Foundations
include such things
like..
• Performance communication,
• Performance communication,
• Employee development,
• Performance communication,
• Employee development,
• Delegating and,
• Performance communication,
• Employee development,
• Delegating and,
• Building functional relationships through one one-on-ones.
And so it’s exciting
that you’ve started
your journey to be a
better boss by
improving your own
one-on-ones
It’s not important
to be perfect, just that you do
the work and get
better
Secret Ninja Manager Trick
Time…
Some
managers don’t
think they have
the time for
regular one-on-
ones
Secret Ninja Manager Trick
But the
Is actually that one-on-ones save
you time
When you miss them
you will find that you
end up spending
more time with
unscheduled
interruptions
One –on-ones
save you time because you do
most of your
management
duties in one go
They can also save
you all of those
annoying, non-urgent,
attention distracting
interruptions
So a tip that will help
you save time it to
train yourself and
your employees to
save non-urgent
communications for the one-on-one
meeting
So in this
section I gave
you a few
reasons why
one-on-ones
save you
time and keep
you on schedule
And I talked about
the essential
manager skills that bosses need to
master
I also shared
with you that
managing is a
practice
– what this
means to me is
two things…
The first is that we
trust in the
process
A single yoga
class isn’t going to
teach you how to
stand on your head
And a single one-
on-one meeting isn’t
going to solve all
your problems
Do your
practice and the results
will come
The second is that no-one is
perfect.
When I first started
one-on-ones, I was not
very good at them
and you initially won’t
be as good as you will
get
The way to get better
is the practice
And a Manager Zen technique that will help
you mentally come to
terms with this is that
you should expect
imperfection
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