Nudge · 2-minute read
One-to-ones run on the manager’s agenda feel productive but rarely surface real problems. When the report owns the agenda, different issues come up.
Status updates fill time without revealing much. Self-determination theory suggests that autonomy increases ownership and openness — and an agenda the employee sets is a simple way to give it.
People raise things they would never volunteer in a status review when the meeting is genuinely theirs.
The research: Deci & Ryan (2000), American Psychologist — self-determination theory.
Adapted from Nudges at Work by Tareef Jafferi, shared in partnership with Happily.ai.
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