One on ones are the Heartbeat of managing because they keep everything on time. 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.

1. One-on-Ones
are the
Heartbeat of
Managing
Make Them Your
Weekly Practice

2. Did you know…
…management is like yoga practice?

3. That’s because there’s
not one thing you
do as a manager and
then suddenly
everything is okay.

4. Management is
a seriesof
small actions
you do.

5. Some you do
daily, some
weekly, some
monthly etc.

6. That’s why management is a practice
like a yoga practice – you do the work
and you get the results

7. It’s not about
being
perfect.

8. It’s not about trying to fix
everything in one go in the
annual performance review

9. It’s about showing up
with the right
intentions and
getting the
work done

10. 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.

11. You know
how things
run
behind?
We get
distracted,
we forget

12. This happens to you
and your employees
and then next thing the
important project is
delayed and over
budget

13. But regular
one-on-ones
keep you and
your employees
on time

14. 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

15. And your tardy
employees
need follow
up like
oxygen

16. And it’s not just
about keeping your
employees on time,
regular one-on-ones
keep bosses on
time too

17. Let’s face up to
the personal
responsibility
we have as a boss
to keep things
going forward

18. I admit that without
some type of
drumbeat to keep
things moving
forward I let my
perfection
tendencies get the
better of deadlines

19. Not to mention
my own
distractions
and shoddy
memory

20. I mean who are we
kidding – we are
probably just as bad
as our employees when
it comes to deadlines

21. Regular one-on-
ones are how I
keep myself
on my toes

22. And you know it’s true because:
when I get an action from a
meeting I hardly ever take care of
it immediately

23. My excuse is
because it seems
like I spend my
whole day rushing
from one meeting to
the next

24. And if you’re
anything like me, far
too many actions drift
until there is a
deadline

25. So you could
say that
meetings
make work
happen

26. Because
there’s a
furious rush of
activity
clearing off
actions before
the next
meeting

27. 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

28. 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…

29. • You need to be flexible,

30. • You need to be flexible,
• Have strength,

31. • You need to be flexible,
• Have strength,
• You need balance plus focus,

32. • You need to be flexible,
• Have strength,
• You need balance plus focus,
• Awareness of your body and,

33. • You need to be flexible,
• Have strength,
• You need balance plus focus,
• Awareness of your body and,
• Breath control

34. And how you get
good at these is
simple – you have
to practice

35. And in this practice,
you practice each skill
and slowly get better
at the parts and you
get better at the
whole

36. Now being a
boss is similar –
there are certain
key skills
you need to
master

37. These skills are so
important that I call
them the
Foundational
Management
Skills

39. The
Cornerstones in
the Foundations
include such things
like..

40. • Performance communication,

41. • Performance communication,
• Employee development,

42. • Performance communication,
• Employee development,
• Delegating and,

43. • Performance communication,
• Employee development,
• Delegating and,
• Building functional relationships
through one one-on-ones.

44. And so it’s exciting
that you’ve started
your journey to be a
better boss by
improving your own
one-on-ones

45. It’s not important
to be perfect,
just that you do
the work and get
better

46. Secret Ninja
Manager Trick
Time…

47. Some
managers don’t
think they have
the time for
regular one-on-
ones

48. Secret Ninja
Manager Trick
But the
Is actually that
one-on-ones save
you time

49. When you miss them
you will find that you
end up spending
more time with
unscheduled
interruptions

50. One –on-ones
save you time
because you do
most of your
management
duties in one go

51. They can also save
you all of those
annoying, non-urgent,
attention distracting
interruptions

52. 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

53. So in this
section I gave
you a few
reasons why
one-on-ones
save you
time and keep
you on schedule

54. And I talked about
the essential
manager skills
that bosses need to
master

55. I also shared
with you that
managing is a
practice
– what this
means to me is
two things…

56. The first is that we
trust in the
process

57. A single yoga
class isn’t going to
teach you how to
stand on your head

58. And a single one-
on-one meeting isn’t
going to solve all
your problems

59. Do your
practice
and the results
will come

60. The second is that
no-one is
perfect.

61. 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

62. The way to get better
is the practice

63. And a Manager Zen
technique that will help
you mentally come to
terms with this is that
you should expect
imperfection

64. This module is
part of a mini
course on
one-on-ones

65. Includes One on One Templates and Best Practices
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67. One-on-Ones
are the
Heartbeat of
Managing
Make Them Your
Weekly Practice