Why you should never neglect the tête-à-tête

Personal meetings with each member of your team, no doubt, will take you a long time. But if you neglect these meetings, your everyday work will turn into chaos.

If our lives are filled with many pointless meetings, we begin to feel like a squeezed lemon. We spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the meeting a faster, more productive and less boring.

When leaders are under pressure from regular meetings, many of them fall into the trap and begin to assume that they are too busy to spend one-on-one with their subordinates.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders, an expert in time management

Here are some important arguments why one on one meeting should be a priority. So, let us think what will happen if you do not communicate face-to-face with each member of your team.

You will not save time - your and your employees

If you stop to find time out to talk personally (or, in extreme cases, with the help of Skype) with their immediate subordinates, it can negatively affect your team work from its members can remain many uncertainties regarding the workers' tasks.

A half-hour conversation on the case can solve many issues. If this conversation did not take place, then your employees can spend days and weeks working in the wrong direction, simply because they do not fully understand what is required of them. This is a waste of both your time and the time of your subordinates.

Of course, some employees work more productively without the authority of control, but most still require assistance from.

Your account will become a revolving door

If you do not want to schedule regular face-to-face with their co-workers, and instead introduce a policy of "open doors" (employees can go to your office and ask questions about), then a productive leader who plans their time and setting priorities, you will become a reference center. Ultimately, when you calculate how much time is spent on unplanned discussion, you understand that to hold regular meetings with subordinates is much more effective.

You say goodbye to the dream to see the number zero in the "Inbox" folder

So you've decided to cancel the scheduled one-on-one with your employees. Now you have a few free hours a day. What did you spend it? Of course, in the analysis of blockages in your email. Your mail will be clogged with letters from the staff, each of whom is required to get your opinion on such questions. And they still do, if still remains a lot of time before the monthly general meeting deadlines and workloads running out?

You do not know the joy of joint creative work

We all dream to work in an environment where colleagues help each other, and monthly meetings are in this mode, when all 30 members of your teams are in turn, share their opinions and successes. But often it is just a dream, but it is not so smoothly in real life. Some employees will never be able to express their true opinions and share their ideas at a general meeting, whichever relaxed atmosphere you have created any.

If you meet with every member of your team one by one, then in that case there is a greater chance that shy employee does not hesitate to share with you my thoughts on work projects, tasks. So you not only to win over employees, but does not give the abyss valuable ideas.