Sean GlazeWorkplace Culture Speaker | Facilitator, Great Results Team Building · Leadership lessons from the locker room that change how your people work together.

HOW TO HAVE MORE EFFECTIVE 1 ON 1 MEETINGS

27 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief talk, leadership speaker and former basketball coach Sean Glaze highlights that over 40% of managers unintentionally hinder their team's growth, connections, and performance by neglecting regular one‑on‑one conversations. He draws on his coaching experience, noting that daily individual talks improved team culture, camaraderie, and leadership. Glaze urges managers to schedule and, crucially, prioritize consistent one‑on‑one meetings with each team member, ensuring these sessions are not displaced by other tasks, as they are essential for building strong relationships and driving desired results.

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So what are over 40% of managers doing to sabotage their team's growth or connections or performance? Well, as a team leadership speaker and team building facilitator, one of the things that I speak with leaders about all the time is the vital importance of having one-on-one conversations with the members of their team. As a basketball coach, one of the best things that I ever did to improve our team's culture was to start having morning conversations with individual members of our team, and that helped them be better teammates and better leaders themselves. It's exactly the same for you in your industry. One of the most valuable things that you can do is to schedule regular one-on-one meetings with the members of your team, and here is the very important part: prioritize those meetings. Don't allow something else to take priority over something that you understand is unbelievably valuable to grow and connect with the people that you're depending on to produce the results that you want. I'm Sean Glaze. That's what effective leaders do.