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Shay Howe

1-on-1 Meeting Assistant - Have the best 1-on-1 meetings with your team.

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The 1-on-1 Meeting Assistant provides a simple and effective way to improve your 1-on-1 meetings with recommended questions, simplified scheduling, and automated reminders.

Managers continue to learn new insights about their employees, and employees have a pressure-free way to speak openly about how they’re doing.

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Shay Howe
Maker
Hello, I’m Shay from Lead Honestly! The past few months we’ve been working on expanding the product at Lead Honestly and we couldn’t be more excited to share the 1-on-1 Meeting Assistant today! We designed and built the 1-on-1 Meeting Assistant based on how we’ve lead and managed our own teams for years. The way it works is simple enough: add your employees and we’ll send them curated questions, collect their responses, and get the conversation started for your next 1-on-1 meeting. As a manager you’ll continue to learn new insights about your employees without interruption as the questions are new each meeting and the workflows are all automated. As an employee you'll the ability to easily share thoughts and feelings with your manager that you may not have felt comfortable doing before without the prompt of a question. In all, we’re pretty excited about the product! Please let us know what you think by leaving a comment, we’d love to hear from you. Shay
Michael Gelphman
@shayhowe congrats to you & Darby! What are some of the product expansions you've made in these past few months? What's on deck for the next 3-6? Keep up the great work!
Shay Howe
Maker
@mikegelphman Thank you! The past few months we've expanded from simply providing questions to managers for their 1-on-1 meetings to providing an entire automated 1-on-1 meeting workflow that sends employees curated questions, collects their responses, and notifies managers when an employee is ready to meet. Additionally, we've added Pulse Questions, which provide a quick and easy way to survey employees in real-time, and a Slack integration, to work with you and your team where you already work, inside Slack. Ahead we're working on team accounts, action items/note taking, richer intelligence, and iterating on feedback, amongst a few other projects. It's been exciting and we're looking forward to the continued progress!
Jennifer Wei
@shayhowe - always appreciate frameworks/tools to help improve 1:1s! Seems like there's some overlap with 15Five (or maybe I'm imagining things?) How does Lead Honestly differentiate itself from them and others in this space?
Shay Howe
Maker
@jenlwei Thanks! We do slightly overlap with other products, no doubt. Our core difference is ensuring that employees and their managers are able to build strong, engaging relationships. We do that by anchoring on 1-on-1 meetings, providing discussion topics to kick start the conversation and workflows to keep the conversations going. With this, we've seen incredible engagement that increases over time as companies use Lead Honestly. We're also a fraction of the price of others at $9 a month a manager with no limit or additional cost per employee. 😃
Jack Wheeler
One of the most challenging parts of 1:1s is they can often be unstructured with no real goal, for either a manager or an individual contributor. I love that Lead Honestly tracks conversations over time. My only gripe is that the automated messages may feel less personal; 1:1 meetings are meant to be extremely personal, and having an email come from "Lead Honestly" feels less genuine than a manager asking questions in a personal email.. As a result, the questions + prompts themselves can yield more generic answers.
Shay Howe
Maker
@jackbwheeler thank you for the feedback Jack, and we're big fans of having historical context to conversations too. To be honest, we feared having the questions sent from Lead Honestly wouldn't feel as personal as well. What we've found is, how a manager follows up on and responds an employee's answers matters far more than where the questions come from or where the discussion originates. Our goal is to build compassion and strengthen the relationships between managers and employees, with the questions and prompts only being an entry point.
Logan LaHive
I'm early adopter and huge fan! Congrats Shay and Darby!
Darby Frey
Maker
One of the exciting parts of the 1-on-1 Meeting Assistant for me is the integration with Slack. Many teams spend their day in Slack, so having Lead Honestly available right there makes it very easy to create new interactions between managers and employees, and increase engagement. This is a relatively new feature for us, but we've seen very encouraging feedback and we will be expanding the capabilities significantly in the coming months.
Michael Gelphman
@darbyfrey1 awesome job! looking forward to seeing it evolve!!
Will Little
@shayhowe @darbyfrey1 Thanks for building a rock-solid product. Our managers have been diving into meaningful and insightful conversations that have produced a ton of unexpected benefits. This is a game changer. People always talk about wanting an amazing culture, but rarely do they put the effort into having the hard & deep conversations to get there. Congrats. And - seriously - thanks.
Shay Howe
Maker
Thank *you* @wclittle! You've been a fantastic customer and supporter. @darbyfrey1 and I are very appreciative of the feedback from you and your team, helping make this product better everyday!
Christopher Deutsch
I've had the pleasure of watching Shay and Darby build Lead Honestly firsthand and am happy to see them release the latest iteration with their 1-on-1 Meeting Assistant. These are proven leaders and the product works!
Jim Remsik Jr

We've been using LeadHonestly for the better part of this year after moving from another service. We're a small tight-knit team of 10-ish people. That familiarity led to assumptions and the same two people getting together are going to quickly run out of new ideas of things to talk about.

LeadHonestly provides us the opportunity to explore those unspoken assumptions and makes for better relationships all around.

Pros:

Thoughtful questions that produce insightful conversation in our 1-on-1s. This is worth the price of admission for myself and my team.

Cons:

Nothing yet.

Billy Carlson
I use Lead Honestly at Threadless and I love it. It's a tool I have come to rely on when communicating with my team and truly understanding their needs.
Shay Howe
Maker
@billycarlson Thanks Billy, we're happy to have Threadless onboard!
Zain Jeddy

My manager utilized this tool for over a dozen of our 1x1's, each of which have led to juicy discussions with no time wasted. Our 30 min 1x1's have all been straight to the point to really get the core of where I'm at in my role. Answering LeadHonestly's questions has been a very effective method to vocalize my thoughts to my manager and as a result strengthened our relationship.

Pros:

Fantastic questions that enabled a deeper relationship with my manager.

Cons:

None yet.

Tom Pryor
Love this idea. Would prefer the emails came from my address. Also, it would be better to be able to see the questions or even a preview of the email *before* being asked to put your team members’ details in. I was ready as soon as I’d seen the questions!
Shay Howe
Maker
@tom_pryor Thank you so much for the feedback Tom, we really appreciate it! We're currently exploring better ways to present the questions to you, be it showing you all the questions planned for the upcoming months or weeks, allowing you to customize these questions far in advance, as well as providing the list of historical questions too. We can certainly show a preview of the email too. Sending the email from your address is interesting, and something we've gotten mixed feedback on. It's worth additional research!
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