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1-on-1 meeting templates.
Templates for the recurring conversation between a manager and their team member — onboarding check-ins, wellbeing, and the regular catch-up.
30 day check-in templateThe questions to ask a new starter at one month — what has gone better than expected, what is harder, and what good looks like from here. Take it and change it.13 questionsWellbeing check-in templateQuestions a manager can ask about wellbeing without overstepping — grounded in work, not in someone’s private life. Take it and change it.11 questions
Choosing between them
- Pick by the moment, not the format. A new starter at one month and someone two years in need different questions, and using the same agenda for both is why 1-on-1s drift into status updates.
- Whoever owns the agenda owns the meeting. Every template here assumes the employee fills it in first, which is the single change that most reliably stops a 1-on-1 becoming a progress report.
- Keep one or two questions fixed across every session so you can hear change over time, and let the rest move with what is actually happening.
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