one on ones are the heartbeat of managing

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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