Agenda (Weekly - 25min)

“Yay. It’s 1:1 time! Let’s use this time to focus on your career at Atlassian and beyond.”

  • Mood check. (1min)
  • Micro Achievements. (5min)
  • Actions & Topics. (5min)
  • Feedback & Shoutouts. (5min)
  • Mission Review. (5min)
  • Shared Themes & Announcements. (4min)

Facilitation Notes

  • Pick a cadence. I recommend 25min weekly at the same time. Don’t move it. Don’t be late.
  • Be the minute taker. So they can talk freely.
  • Show and reiterate the agenda at the start of every 1:1.
  • Screen share the workbook during the 1:1 so you can both keep track of all notes.
  • Always start with micro achievements. “What are you most proud of this week”. Map it to a job competency. Try to capture at least 3 every 1:1.
  • Keep a separate doc for ‘shared themes and announcement’ and share it at the end of each week.
  • When it comes “mission review”, prepare a few razer sharp question like. “How often do you think about leaving and what sort of thing would you go for?”. Covert their reply into updates on the “Mission” tab and then talk about how you can help them. Keeping people is good for business.
  • Feedback & Shoutouts is for them to share their feedback to you, not for you to give them feedback. If you have a topic you’d like to discuss add it to Actions & Topics.
  • At the end of every week, go through the list of action items that have been assigned to you for all your reports and ‘do them’. Show that you are listening.