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One-on-One Meeting Guide

One-on-One Meeting Guide

One-on-One Meeting Guide

Free PDF · 17 pages · Updated October 2026

Free PDF · 17 pages · Updated October 2026

Make your next one-on-one more useful. Choose from five meeting templates, prepare a shared agenda and leave with clear next steps.

Make your next one-on-one more useful. Choose from five meeting templates, prepare a shared agenda and leave with clear next steps.

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Use it before a regular check-in, development conversation, review, performance discussion or skip-level meeting. Includes agendas, question prompts and follow-through notes.

Use it before a regular check-in, development conversation, review, performance discussion or skip-level meeting. Includes agendas, question prompts and follow-through notes.

Five meeting templates

Pick the format that fits the conversation, from regular check-ins to performance concerns.

Shared agenda questions

Invite the employee’s priorities and make room for obstacles, feedback and growth.

Follow-through notes

Leave with an owner, a next step and a date to check progress together.

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A regular check-in template

For managers who want one-on-ones to make space for obstacles, feedback and growth. Use it before a regular check-in or a more focused conversation.

Choose an agenda, invite the employee’s priorities and finish with an agreement you can follow up on.

Practical guidance from Happily.ai

Happily.ai’s five meeting templates bring together practical agendas, question prompts and follow-through notes. The guide includes references to SHRM’s one-on-one guidance and Amy Edmondson’s research on psychological safety.

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