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Make your one-to-ones with your manager actually useful

Your one-to-ones are just status updates, or they keep getting cancelled. Get an agenda that covers what you need: help, feedback and your career.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

The prompt · ChatGPT

Help me plan a useful one-to-one with my manager.

What's going on: [work, wins, problems]
What I need from them: [e.g. a decision, help, feedback]
Something longer-term: [e.g. a promotion, training]
How long: [e.g. 30 minutes]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. A 30-minute agenda: quick update (5 minutes), what I need, feedback both ways, career.
2. Three questions to ask for real feedback.
3. A note to send after with what we agreed.
4. A reusable template for every one-to-one.

Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, dates or results. UK English.

Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. work, wins, problems: a short note you already have. e.g. a decision, help, feedback: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

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