Virtual Activity – Practising One-To-Ones in Small Groups
INTRODUCTION
In this session, participants will practice having one-to-one meetings in small groups and give each other feedback.
DURATION (ESTIMATED)
- 90-minutes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After going through this session, participants will have:
- Gone through practice sessions in small groups to help them develop effective one-to-one meeting skills
WORKBOOK
- Yes
PREPARATION
- None
PREREQUISITES
- Participants should know what one-to-one meetings are and their purpose.
- They should be able to identify behaviours that lead to effective one-to-one meetings.
FACILITATION GUIDE
- Introduce the activity by sharing the learning objective with them. Display the slide titled – LEARNING OBJECTIVE.
- After displaying the slide, tell them that:
- Having the knowledge about how to have effective one-to-ones is not enough.
- We need to be able to put that knowledge into practice.
- To validate some of what we have learnt you are going to practice doing one-to-one meetings in small groups
- Display the slide titled – PRACTICE IN SMALL GROUPS.
- Tell them that:
- You will practice in groups of threes.
- Each person in a group will rotate through the roles of manager, team member and observer.
- Each one-to-one practice session will last for a maximum of 10-minutes.
- During the one-to-one meeting the observer will observe and take down notes which they will feedback to the manager after the practice session.
- There are guidance notes and three case studies in your workbooks.
- In your groups decide on which case study each person will use.
- All the case studies have information which you will need to read beforehand to get ready.
- You will be given an initial 10-minutes to prepare and then 45-minutes for the practice sessions. 30-minutes for the actual practice and 15-minutes for feedback from the observer.
- Display the next slide titled – GIVING FEEDBACK.
- Tell them that:
- Let’s remember that the purpose of feedback is to help people learn and develop.
- It is not for judgement or criticism. Each observer should follow the steps outlined here to ask for and give feedback.
- They should first ask the team member about how the one-to-one went for them.
- Next, they should ask the manager to talk about their experience of the one-to-one. How did it go for them?
- Finally, observers should then talk about what they felt the manager did well and what they can do differently next time to make the one-to-one meeting even better.
- Next, direct them to the section in their workbooks titled – INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PRACTICE SESSION.