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How New Managers Can Run a One-on-One That Actually Matters
Episode 75 of New Manager Conversations with Fexingo dives into the single most underused tool in a first-time manager's kit: the weekly one-on-one. Lucas and Luna walk through a concrete case: a new engineering manager at a mid-size SaaS company who inherited a team of six and initially treated 1:1s as status updates. They break down why that fails, the three-question framework that replaces it, and the specific ratio of listening to talking that changed the team's retention. No generic advice. Real numbers: the manager's team saw a 40 percent drop in escalations within eight…
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