At Candor, we believe 1-on-1 meetings should be reserved for unblocking team members, sharing live feedback and checking in on higher level progress. Typically async work check-ins are better for detailed progress reports.

If you aren’t sure how to approach specific topics in your 1-on-1, you can also utilize our library of prompts and easily add them to your agenda.

Once you’re done discussing an item from your agenda, you’ll check off the item to signal it has been discussed. If you don’t have a chance to discuss an item and don’t check it off the agenda, it’ll automagically be added to your next 1-on-1 agenda.

We recommend cancelling the 1-on-1 meeting if there’s no outstanding talking points to be discussed. 1-on-1 meetings usually get a bad rep for being unproductive — which makes sense if you go into them unprepared! If you and/or your teammate don’t have anything added to the agenda, just cancel and get the time back.