SimonIf you have a manager, how often do you like to catch with them for a 1:1 or something functionally similar.
Weekly
Fortnitely
Monthly
Something else (comment below)
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And, if you have direct reports how often do you like to catch up with them for a 1:1 or something functionally similar.
Weekly
Fortnightly
Monthly
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Stephen@iokiwi used to aim for weekly on the basis that sometimes you miss one and if you had two weekly frequency then you'd go three weeks plus probably be out of the habit.
John@iokiwi two short meetings a week
@technostressing woah! I have some follow up questions. Feel free to answer as many or few of them with as much or little detail you are comfortable with.
What kind of team is it? Is it a tech team? Development? Operations? platform/sre/DevOps?
What kind of seniority in the team? Does it slant towards more senior heavy or junior heavy?
What kind of other communication practices do you have? Do you do standups or anything else?
@iokiwiā©Iām a director. I have 4 managers that cover security operations and network services globally. All four managers have a decent amount of experience and a lot of autonomy. We have two short scheduled meetings a week and they reach out to me in email, chat and calls for time sensitive things and know my (virtual) door is always open.
The teams have their own regional stand ups on a regular basis and global sync ups. The cadence is determine by the team. I donāt always attend those frequently so the managers can have frank conversations without a director on the call. There is a 3x week company wide operational sync call/local CAB that managers and directors attend too.
Primarily I get my info from a standardized status report that the teams initially hated doing but now that I donāt call them all the time for ad hoc info they like it. Itās has a combo high level project status summary and ānarrativeā context where the team highlights roadblocks for me or the manager to clear among other things.
I routinely offer one-on-ones to anyone on the team that wants to do āskip levelsā and I have several people from all 4 teams that take me up on it. Sometimes itās work related sometimes it just shooting the shit.
@technostressing thanks for your thoughtful and detailed response, John!
Lemniscate@iokiwi it has depended on the direct reportās role. Weekly in many cases for one on ones, but Iād say we almost always spoke more often in more recent years because there were organization changes going on, tooling changes, policy alignments, etc. For my direct reports that had direct reports of their own, we communicated daily. Some of this was due to timezone coverage, escalations, and so on, so far from all one on one oriented topics.
nobody@iokiwi responding as weekly because I let my guys decide. Some have settled on biweekly, one prefers no scheduled 1-1 but likes to chat/call when needed. Majority however is weekly.
vandorb12@iokiwi i don't have direct reports, but if I did I would like to follow up weekly.
Tho it's been months since I've actually talked with my roommates, so certainly something isn't being practiced here.
Tho it's been months since I've actually talked with my roommates, so certainly something isn't being practiced here.
Jenkins instance š¶š¾@jjenkins101201 @jerry wowee! 22 direct reports is quite the team! How many inches would a pizza need to be into order to feed them with 2.
Ken Brucker@iokiwi When I was managing staff I made it a point to have weekly 30 minute 1:1s with everyone, at the peak that was 14 staff. I think itās a part of why I had only 3 or 4 resign in a span of 15 years. Other teams around me saw more turnover.