Share my 1:1 Doc with my Manager?

Having some shared version of a 1:1 doc with your manager is good.

If there are incriminating or ultra-vulnerable thoughts, keep it private 😅 But you can create a distinct doc that you do share.

A shared doc has two benefits:

• Provides a written record for each of you to understand what you discussed and keep track of action items.
• You can pre-fill the agenda for your next 1:1 so that the manager (1) can do adequate prep work and (2) won't skip/cancel the meeting.

Here's what to put in your 1:1 doc: What’s a good example of a 1:1 document to help your manager keep track of your accomplishments?

And this video: Signs Of A Healthy Manager 1 on 1 Meeting

Unless there's some really private stuff or mean thoughts about your manager, you should definitely share it. Do you and your manager not maintain a shared 1:1 doc already?

If you are behind your 1 month goals, your goal is to now stop being behind. You will best be able to do that if you share with your manager and get feedback on how to be more efficient (or work together to realize the initial goal was too aggressive and pare it back). Whatever the path is, more transparency is better.

You can only hide a lack of productivity for so long. Eventually it'll catch up to you.

Thanks Rahul and Alex.

I just had my 1:1. We discussed my current tickets in detail and didn't delve into overall performance.

Should I actively try to go beyond discussing my tickets? Based on Rahul's Onboarding Course, the answer would be a big yes. In my case, I feel like my velocity isn't high enough. Before or after my manager discusses my tickets, should I ask him to give me feedback on my velocity and general performance? Because my own assessment of myself is that I can be doing better, I imagine his is the same or similar. If it's not, that's great and I can relax a bit. If it's the same, then I'm assuming the idea is to discuss strategies for improvement with the goal being for him to give me concrete feedback for suggestion.

Do I have this right?

Long story short, I think my action item for our next 1:1 should be to get him to give me feedback and suggestions for improvement at the very beginning of our meeting. This is scary for me, because I think he'll validate that I can be doing better.

As a second action item, I think I should send my manager a message on Slack right now telling him of my intention. That commits me to it in the future and gets the ball rolling with regard to having him give me this feedback and prep for it.

Are those both good ideas?