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The importance of 1-on-1s in a growing development team
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As your company grows, it’s important to have one on ones with your team. Growth is a great thing, but you need to work to keep open lines of communication. Checking in with your team members to see how they are doing and to make sure that they are growing the way they want to be growing helps keep employees engaged and invested. A traditional annual review is probably not frequent enough. In this industry, you see people leaving jobs quickly, often after only about two years. A lot can happen in a year and you don’t want to miss out on chances to interact and guide your employees. I recently saw an app tweeted out by the CEO of Shopify called fellow.app that they use to organize one on ones. It helps you organize and schedule one on ones, suggest topics for discussion during meetings, let your team request feedback, and easily follow up on action items. If you are looking for a tool to make the process more seamless, it might be worth trying. As your company grows, you want to make sure you are growing well while holding onto what makes you unique. Companies can struggle to maintain the connectedness between employees that they have when they start out as they scale up. You want to be cognizant of that and preserve the bonds between team members as you continue to grow.
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As your company grows, it’s important to have one on ones with your team. Growth is a great thing, but you need to work to keep open lines of communication. Checking in with your team members to see how they are doing and to make sure that they are growing the way they want to be growing helps keep employees engaged and invested. A traditional annual review is probably not frequent enough. In this industry, you see people leaving jobs quickly, often after only about two years. A lot can happen in a year and you don’t want to miss out on chances to interact and guide your employees. I recently saw an app tweeted out by the CEO of Shopify called fellow.app that they use to organize one on ones. It helps you organize and schedule one on ones, suggest topics for discussion during meetings, let your team request feedback, and easily follow up on action items. If you are looking for a tool to make the process more seamless, it might be worth trying. As your company grows, you want to make sure you are growing well while holding onto what makes you unique. Companies can struggle to maintain the connectedness between employees that they have when they start out as they scale up. You want to be cognizant of that and preserve the bonds between team members as you continue to grow.
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