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Leading Effective One-on-One Meetings

A Guide to Practical Skills

Created byMike Claytonworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
IntermediateUpdated Apr 12, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUnderstand the purpose of one-on-one meetings.
  • check_circleCreate a safe and productive meeting environment.
  • check_circlePlan and structure meetings for maximum impact.
  • check_circleAsk the right questions to encourage open dialogue.
  • check_circleGive and receive feedback effectively.
  • check_circleFollow up with clear actions and accountability.

About This Course

Do you need to lead one-on-one meetings in your workplace? Whether you're a manager, team lead, or mentor, these conversations are essential for building trust, aligning goals, and supporting individual growth. But to be truly effective, one-on-one meetings must be both comfortable and productive for everyone involved.

This course will give you the tools to plan, lead, and follow up on one-on-one meetings with clarity and confidence. You’ll learn how to create a safe, open space for communication while making sure each meeting delivers value. Whether you're addressing performance, setting goals, or checking in regularly, you'll walk away with a practical framework for success.

Course Content

5 activities • 24 videos • duration: 1h 41m

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Welcome and Introduction-Part14 videos • 13 min
  • videocamWelcome to the Course
    Duration 2:45
  • videocamWhy One-on-One Meetings are so Important
    Duration 3:21
  • videocamReasons to Meet
    Duration 2:52
  • videocamMeetings are Conversations: Types of Conversation
    Duration 4:16
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Preparation and Planning for Your One-on-One Meeting-Part13 videos • 11 min
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Running Your One-on-One Meeting-Part18 videos • 37 min
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Particular Types of One-on-One Meeting-Part18 videos • 36 min
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Closing-Part11 videos • 2 min

Your Instructor

Mike Clayton

Business Trainer, Author and Speaker

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Dr Mike Clayton is a business trainer, author and speaker. Since 2002, he has been helping professionals, managers and leaders to excel in their roles with management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training. Mike has written over a dozen books for major publishers like Wiley, Macmillan and Pearson, including: Powerhouse, How to Manage a Great Project, How to Speak so People Listen, Brilliant Time Management, and The Influence Agenda. Mike's professional background is 12 years as a project management professional with the London office of international management consultancy Deloitte. Prior to that, Mike had an academic career in Physics, working at the world renowned Schuster Laboratory of the University of Manchester.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.7 out of 5
Student's Choice
17 reviews
  • NM
    Normand M.
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    Excellent course. A One-On-One meetings seems like something that one could simply "wing it" but there is more to it than meets the eye. Well done.

  • SP
    Svetlana P.
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    This course was excellent for improving one-on-one meetings. The practical tips and strategies are very helpful and will definitely impact how I facilitate these meetings going forward. Thank you for the valuable insights!

  • RS
    Ravinder S.
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    great speakers

  • JT
    Jennifer T.
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    Excellent content and delivery! The use of video and visuals made it easy to engage and focus on the content. I find the reference materials included very helpful.

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