Improving your 1-1 skill

1-1's are a great way to effectively connect with your manager/team to:

1. Understand their expectations
2. Set expectations from your side
3. Align with seniors/juniors and achieve long term goals
4. Deepen professional relationships that will help and nurture you in the future.

Most often we are not prepared for 1-1's and specially introverts try to shy away from it and feel relieved when they get cancelled. I used to feel the same, until i was trained well by my managers to take this as an opportunity and build well on these conversations.

I would like to share my learnings of effective 1-1 with you.

1. How to prepare yourself initially?
2. What are the best practices?
3. How to train yourself over time, so that 1-1's are natural and spontaneous for you?
4. What can be your personalised plan?