1. Yes.<p>2. Yes. Though like anything, you get out of them what you put in.<p>3. Set on a per-person basis. Some people need/want to meet every week. A lot of them are younger developers and are looking for constant guidance/feedback on how they're doing, ways to improve, or just to talk through issues.<p>While a person is in charge of their frequency, we do require at least once a month. Those people are usually more senior in their careers. In those cases, a lot of times the meetings are shorter and we just have a quick chat to make sure everything's okay with both them and their team.
1. Yes we have.<p>2. YES! Very much so!<p>3. A 1 hour meeting every other week! If you want to have weekly 1-on-1s, you can have a 30-45 minute meeting.<p>A few tips:<p>- Focus of 1-on-1s should be on supporting your direct reports. How they feel at work, how they can achieve more, what should they do for their career developments, etc.<p>- Active listening is very important! It's a meeting about our direct reports goals, so most of the time we should listen to what they have to say.<p>- I found this guide by Lighthouse helpful, but there are lots of other good guides:<p><a href="https://getlighthouse.com/blog/one-on-one-meetings-template-great-leaders/" rel="nofollow">https://getlighthouse.com/blog/one-on-one-meetings-template-...</a>
1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Weekly, but either of us feel free to cancel if we need the time back<p>My direct report is our product manager, and has his schedule packed with meetings. Keeping a 1on1 on the calendar means I can nab him with questions during a busy week without sending another fifteen emails to an already overflowing inbox. Plus, it makes us both pick our heads up at least once a week to socially engage, which we could both easily forget to do.
I have a weekly 1 on 1 with my manager, but we end up skipping most weeks, as neither of us have anything we need to talk about. We tend to average about once a month.<p>Usually our 1 on 1s turn into a planning session to discuss project that will be coming the following months. So I do feel they are useful.
1. Yes.<p>2. Not really.<p>3. They are weekly.<p>I just don't have much to say most times, so it's a quick "everything good?", "yep", "cool".