How to: impactful 1:1s with senior stakeholders

Is having 1:1 with a senior person a dreadful thing to experience? There are 2 main topics you can consider structuring your conversation around:

1. Performance conversation 🎯

- Focused mainly on getting feedback how you have done against short-termed KPIs based on business strategy. - - This is backward looking.

- Like a football match that focuses on how many goals you make and the eventual score.

Action you can take

- This is the time to highlight key achievements

- Get quite tactical in specific parts of a project you were on that can be improved.

- These are usually formal feedback reviews that happen twice year or more regularly, depending on where you work at.

2. Development conversation 🌱

- This forward looking and longer-term growth.

- Focused mainly on increased understanding of your strengths and what are the gaps and anction plan.

- This is like the training in between the soccer match.

Action you can take

- Do a stock take of your core and technical competencies during this time.

- This is also great for getting advice in what on the job experience you need, knowledge you need to pick up and courses/training that are helpful.

- For example, if I’m thinking about expanding my scope to aim for a promotion or a job transition, this is where I will have that.

- I suggest this to happen every month, or at least every quarter to take stock if you have been moving towards your goal.

Pro tip 🙌🏻

I find that it’s better to have these 2 conversations separately so you can give the time and headspace for each!

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