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Five questions to ask in every one-on-one
(That aren’t “what are you working on?”)
A short, free guide for first-time people managers who’d like their one-to-one's to actually go somewhere. Print it. Pin it. Use one question on Monday and see what happens.
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What’s inside
Five better questions. Each one designed to get past the status-update default and into the conversation you actually need to be having.
A "why ask" note for each. So you know what the question is doing — and when to use which one.
One page. Printable. Fits next to your monitor. No 30-page PDF, no upsell, no homework.
“Nobody really teaches you how to run a one-on-one meeting. So you default to status updates — and the conversation never quite goes anywhere.”
First-time managers may not have been shown what a good one-one-one looks like. These five questions are the shortest path from status update to actual conversation.