Run your first 1:1
Set the tone, earn trust, and run the conversation — without faking authority you haven’t built yet.
- 1 Run 1:1s that surface problems early The whole point of a 1:1 — surface problems while they’re still small.
- 2 Warmth before competence
- 3 Your first team meeting
- 4 The listening tour
- 5 Tell them how you operate
- 6 Yesterday’s peers, today’s reports
- 7 Name the emotion to defuse it
- 8 Learn the work like a beginner, not a fraud