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Relationship Management

How to ruin a 1:1

Explore reverse brainstorming to uncover pitfalls in 1:1 meetings and enhance trust-building.

Daniel Schley
Jul 17, 2020 • 5 min read
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Intermediate
Building Trust
Creating Safe Environments
Feedback and Reflection
Trust
Trust and Psychological Safety
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Summary

This engaging piece explores how reverse brainstorming can reveal common pitfalls in 1:1 meetings between managers and employees. By illustrating what not to do, it offers insights into building a trust-based relationship, crucial for a positive feedback culture. Learn how small missteps can undermine trust and discover strategies to avoid them. Establishing trust requires time, patience, and effort, but it can be easily destroyed by neglecting fundamental values such as punctuality and confidentiality. Dive in to enhance your managerial skills.

Takeaways

  • Avoiding common pitfalls like tardiness and disinterest is crucial.
  • Demonstrating values such as reliability and integrity fosters trust.
  • Effective 1:1s support a positive feedback culture.
  • Reverse brainstorming helps identify ineffective 1:1 meeting practices.
  • Trust-building in management requires consistency and confidentiality.
  • Building trust can start with or be supported by little things like e.g. punctuality and pleasantries, but getting to a higher level requires time, patience, and effort.
  • Establishing trust should be one of your first and main goals as a people manager.
  • Live and demonstrate values that support trust: e.g. reliability, consistency, authenticity, confidentiality, integrity, mindfulness, and humaneness.
  • Trust is easier destroyed than built.

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