Jan 5, 2024
6 Challenges in 1:1 Meetings and How to Address Them
6 Challenges in 1:1 Meetings and How to Address Them
Let’s go through 6 challenging situations we may face during a 1:1 meeting and suggest strategies for dealing with them.
Let’s go through 6 challenging situations we may face during a 1:1 meeting and suggest strategies for dealing with them.
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In previous articles, we defined what 1:1 meetings are and explained their purpose.We also provided tips on how to prepare and conduct them. But as we share these spaces for exchange with the people we lead, we’ll see that no meeting goes just like another one. That’s because each one of us is different, and what works with one person doesn’t work with another. And that’s why it’s necessary to adapt theses meetings to the people we have them with.
We’ll describe six challenging situations we might face some day and go through some strategies to deal with them.
Some people don’t like to share what they’re thinking or feeling. Or they talk very briefly, and say just “Yes”, “No”, “Sometimes” for an answer. It may also happen that people are willing to share, but they find it hard to express themselves. And that’s OK, people shouldn’t be rushed to saying things when they don’t want to talk.
But sometimes, we really need them to talk. For example, in 1:1 meetings. Otherwise, what are they for?
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Generally, this scenario occurs when people don’t know each other well. Once people feel familiar with one another, they begin to share and say what they feel and think.
In order to accelerate the process, we may want to take the first step and say what we think and feel. That shows the other person that it’s a safe space to do so.
It’s also useful to prepare beforehand the questions we want to ask. We want the questions to be as open as possible, so that the answer is more elaborated. For example, instead of asking “Were you shocked by the fact that Juan resigned?”, we might ask “How did you feel about Juan’s resigning?”. The first version is limited, because the answer could be either “Yes” or “No”. The second version is open and provides more room for information.
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