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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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Shaker
Congrats Shay & Darby! Definitely excited to use the Slack integration
John Ballou

I've used Lead Honestly to drive 1:1 meetings with my team for several months. The questions enable me to have rich conversations with my direct reports, harvesting employee engagement and development. By using Lead Honestly I have been able to identify areas of improvement for the business, and guide my team members to success.

Pros:

Thought-provoking questions curated for 1:1 meetings with your direct reports. Saves time and drives meaningful conversation.

Cons:

None

George Brooks
Love this idea! Excited to see what Darby and Shay have created.
Jesse Perry
Focused, high quality product. Highly recommended.
Jeff Nolan
I really like purpose-specific products like this, but have to admit that integrating purpose-specific products into my team workflow is a real challenge. Yet-another-SaaS-app syndrome. Companies like to say it’s a low friction exercise but that just isn’t true, everything you do in a team has a price to pay in the form of time expended managing change. The Slack integration that is available for the product is welcome, but I want it to go beyond reminders in Slack to ‘go to your dashboard”. This is actually relevant for me becuase I use Slack for my 1:1 meetings. I have 34 people on my team, 7 direct reports that I do weekly 1:1s with. I have a private 1:1 channel in slack for each direct report and through the week we drop discussion items and questions into the channel, which then becomes the agenda for my 1:1 call/meeting. A leadhonestly bot that hosts the Q&A inside a private Slack channel, and then provides a query interface for stats would mean I could use your app entirely through Slack. The questions I reviewed in the product marketing material were interesting, but I have to question the utility of asking open-ended questions. I prefer specific and contextual questions over “what keeps you engaged?”. The reason is simple, open-ended questions produce open-ended answers. “What is the last professional development activity you did for yourself?” will provide a more interesting answer than “what are your professional development goals?”. Another example is “what is your largest frustration?”; a question that is looking for a scratch to whatever itch is most recent. Take a specific example of friction you, as a manager, observed and talk about that specific example. How do you curate and test the questions you are providing through the app?
Shay Howe
Maker
@jeffnolan Thank you so much for the thoughtful response. You make some great points and have great questions, which I'll do my best to respond to. There certainly is a cost to any change, particularly when that change is around process and people. We're continually evaluating ways to reduce this friction and cost when implementing Lead Honestly. We're far from perfect but the long term value we've been able to create far outweighs the cost of the initial change. Lead Honestly for Slack today is our first foray into developing a more robust integration. We're currently working with our customers who've taken advantage of this integration to learn how they would like to see it grow over time. Your feedback is closely aligned to what we're hearing and will be delving into before long. With the questions, you're right on the money. Specific and contextual questions yield far better answers than the more generic questions. For every question we use we're considering the response it may elicit, and how that question may be rewritten or changed to gain a deeper, more valuable response. During this process the questions are reviewed by a handful of people from varying backgrounds, including managers, psychologist, career counselors, and more. Even better, with tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and the alike we're able to continually learn which questions work best and how all of the questions can routinely be rewritten and improved. If you'd like to learn more or jump in deeper please let me know. I'd be happy to connect and would love any additional feedback you're willing to share. Thanks again Jeff!
Jeremy Parker
Really awesome product! Great job Shay
Dainis Kanopa
guys, how this is working at PH? You were just features few hours ago, but you have comments already 2 days old? I am just curious
Shay Howe
Maker
@dainiskanopa Hi Dainis, I can't speak for PH, however I believe posts may be featured at anytime.
Matt Pliszka
If you feel you lack personal communication with your team this is something worth a shot. I really like that this app has a built-in question templates suggesting you how you proceed with the one-on-one meetings with your employees. Might be really helpful if looking for ways to boost motivation in your team.
Matt Pliszka

A really useful app if looking for ways to boost motivation and personal communication within your team.

Pros:

question suggestions, easy team adding

Cons:

quite expensive for a basic functionality it offers

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