What will you learn?

The 1:1 meeting is the best way for managers and those who report to them to connect on pressing issues, develop a strong relationship, and ensure that employees feel like they are working towards their personal, team and company goals.

Putting in place a proper framework, agenda, tone, asking the right questions, the setting of goals makes the 1:1 meeting motivational, impactful and aligns you and your team in achieving your mutual aspirations.

A 1:1 meeting should be a dedicated time on the calendar. It is a time for coaching, mentorship, giving context, or even venting.

The 1:1 meeting dedicates time for you and your team to connect, build your relationship, communicate so you understand each other better, building trust between each other which means you both have alignment and a clear road map to knowing what success looks like and achieving it.

By joining this workshop an experienced CTO Craft facilitator will guide you and a cohort of colleagues through:

• The process of understanding what makes a high impact 1:1 meeting successful
• Personalising it for you and your team
• Helping you learn the techniques to gather better feedback
• And how to action that feedback effectively to achieve personal, team and company goals.

How will you learn?

This is a 3 hour Session, with 30 minute preparation time, and 30 minute post session time, conducted using Zoom and Miro.

• Participants will evaluate their existing approach to conducting 1:1 meetings and feedback sessions.
• Participants will analyse the available approaches to making 1:1 conversations effective and giving impactful feedback.
• Participants will start the process of creating their own approach to delivering high impact 1:1s.

What's on the agenda?

• Welcome and Introductions
• The Why: Benefits of great 1:1’s
• Relationships are not meetings
• The Pre-session interactions
• The Model Session
• Post-session Interactions
• Questioning Skills
• Setting Action Items
• Feedback in 1:1s
• Personalisation and Social Styles
• Plenary Discussion Session

Who is it for?

This introductory workshop is for early-stage leaders, technology managers, and CTOs who aren't yet doing many 1:1s, or doing them on an ad hoc basis. This is not for more experienced CTOs who are already managing multiple teams and conducting regular and impactful 1:1s.

CTO Craft Member Discount

CTO Craft members automatically qualify for a £100 discount; if you're not already a member, head to the Community Signup page and leave us your details - it's free to join, and you'll be joining over 6,000 other CTOs, VP Engs, Heads of and other senior-level technology leaders

Who is the instructor?

Dan Smith

Dan is a technology leader and advisor. He coaches, mentors and consults with other leaders to develop themselves and their teams to produce outstanding results. Dan has worked worldwide with large multinationals like IBM and Rabobank solving infrastructure and teamwork issues, as well as bringing new software products to market for various startups.

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Some testimonials

"I really enjoyed brainstorming scenarios together and bringing up difficult 1:1 examples that we have and relating that back to the material. The content was very applicable and a skill set that it feels we all could use refreshing and refining multiple times."

"The interaction and input from the participants was fantastic, it added a lot to the experience to hear feedback and thoughts from others."

"It was a lovely balance of theory and practical and the instructor was lovely; a really productive and inspirational session."

"Miro and Zoom worked really well. The instructor was super knowledgeable which made me feel at ease. Hearing from other people on the call was really heartening and useful."

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