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A Tool to Make Your One-on-Ones More Effective.

Lindsay Jopson
2 min readFeb 16, 2020

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Screenshot of Catchup Cues

Catch-ups or 1-on-1’s as they can be referred to are essentially staff meetings that take place throughout the month. There is a bunch of research to suggest they play a massive role in improving the quality and performance of staff within a company.

The general purpose of one-on-ones are

  • Pulse checks / Status updates
  • An opportunity to identify and remove blockers for staff
  • Build trust and relationships with staff
  • Opportunity to Coach staff
  • Opportunity for feedback

The general thought with one-on-ones is ‘the more the better’ however the reality is, to do them effectively you need to prepare, ask the right questions, and be engaged. Time can become a huge factor at work, so often these meetings turn into a status update session as its usually top of mind and don’t require preparation.

If you search for one-on-one questions, you will find a tonne of questions in large lists. As an Engineer, I decided there has to be a better way the randomly picking questions myself. To which I built a tool to do it for me.

I idea was that I needed something I could access quickly, and contained hundreds of quality questions to ensure variety in the…

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