Structures recurring manager-report 1:1s with a rolling shared agenda that balances check-in, blockers, two-way feedback, and career growth instead of status updates.
Structures recurring manager-report 1:1s with a rolling shared agenda that balances check-in, blockers, two-way feedback, and career growth instead of status updates. Use when someone asks "what should I cover in my 1:1s", "build me a 1:1 agenda template", "my 1:1s have turned into status meetings", or is setting up 1:1s with new reports. Do NOT use for general meeting agendas - use meeting-agenda instead; for writing a formal review document, use performance-review-writer; for drafting a specific piece of feedback, use feedback-writer.This is the skill's description: the text your AI reads to decide when the skill applies.
1on1-agenda/SKILL.md
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name: 1:1 Agenda
description: Structures recurring manager-report 1:1s with a rolling shared agenda that balances check-in, blockers, two-way feedback, and career growth instead of status updates. Use when someone asks "what should I cover in my 1:1s", "build me a 1:1 agenda template", "my 1:1s have turned into status meetings", or is setting up 1:1s with new reports. Do NOT use for general meeting agendas - use meeting-agenda instead; for writing a formal review document, use performance-review-writer; for drafting a specific piece of feedback, use feedback-writer.
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# 1:1 Agenda
The 1:1 is the manager's highest-leverage meeting, and it belongs to the report. The costly failure it prevents is invisible until it isn't: the resignation that "came out of nowhere", the burnout nobody asked about, the career stagnation that festered because growth only came up at review season. A structured rolling agenda keeps the meeting about the human, not the task list.
## Core principle
The 1:1 is their meeting. Status belongs in standups and written updates; this time is protected for what does not fit there - blockers, growth, feedback, and how they are actually doing. The report should lead roughly 70% of the talking. If the manager is doing most of it, the meeting has become a broadcast.
## Operating procedure
### Step 1: Gather inputs
Before setting up (or fixing) a 1:1 practice, establish:
- The reports and their seniority. Default cadence is weekly; biweekly only for very senior, autonomous people - and treat that as the exception to justify, not the default.
- Meeting length: 30 minutes minimum. Under 30, the check-in gets skipped and the meeting degrades to status.
- Where status currently lives (standup, written update, dashboard). If nowhere, fix that first, or status will recolonize the 1:1 no matter what the agenda says.
- Any history to carry in: existing career goals, recent feedback, open action items.
### Step 2: Set up the rolling agenda doc… load the full skill through Skill MeClick to play with sound.