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Your ultimate guide to hosting a better 1-on-1 meeting

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Sherry Pedersen-Ajmani

Are you and your employees getting value out of your one-on-one meetings or do they feel like a waste of time? One-on-one meetings can quickly become rote when treated like a checkbox where team members feel they're there just to provide status updates. But in reality, they're an important element in employee engagement, development and productivity. 

So how do you host a better one-on-one? From flexible agendas to co-created formats, Rotman alumna Sherry Pedersen-Ajmani joined Manage This! to share the (not-so-secret) secret to an effective — and evolving — manager-employee meeting. 

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Sherry Pedersen-Ajmani (MBA '03) is the principal and organizational consultant at Talent Craft, an HR consultancy firm.