Your One-on-One Is Probably a Status Meeting in Disguise
Your calendar says one-on-one. Your agenda says completed, in progress, blocked, and next. That isn't coaching. It is project software with eye contact.
This week Chris explains why routine status reporting consumes the only protected conversation many employees have with their manager, why meeting frequency does not guarantee value, and how employee-owned can quietly become manager abandonment. He also gives managers a practical thirty-minute reset built around honest friction, useful feedback, decisions, development, and clear commitments.
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