The benefits of switching from weekly to monthly 1-1s

Up: § A better way to work with direct reports than weekly 1-1s

As I reflected on some of the § Problems with recurring weekly 1-1 meetings, I started to consider making a change in the cadence of these meetings. Initially, I thought about just adjusting to biweekly, which would certainly have been the easier change to make. However, as I thought about it more, I realized that moving to biweekly wouldn’t really change that much.

Moving from weekly to biweekly would probably lead to many of those same problems. However, adjusting from weekly to monthly was a drastic enough change to force an overall paradigm shift in these meetings, changing the purpose of them entirely. This is something I’m still in the midst of exploring, but it is already feeling powerful for me with the people I work directly with.