{"id":2715,"date":"2018-12-09T17:56:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2021-05-06T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:00:56","slug":"discovery-one-on-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2018\/12\/09\/discovery-one-on-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery One on One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I chose to end all the chapters of my book, Changing Your Team From The Inside<\/a>, with a section titled “Summary and Action”. The goal of those sections is to give you keys to act immediately on your environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I regularly received feedback about how great it was to have exercises to practice directly and impact your “day-to-day.” Some of the answers to the question I asked immediately after receiving those feedbacks still surprises me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kind of question I asked: “have you tried some of the exercises?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answers I received were along the line of: “no, oh well, not yet, but I will.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people told me they were not ready to act when they read the book and added the exercises to their backlog of things to try. Some others told me they were too curious to read the next chapter to take action immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great thing is that a lot of people told me how great it was because they tried one exercise with great success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario Esposito<\/a> tried the exercise from chapter 5. The practice is a way to guide one-on-ones when meeting new people. Mario worked that with his team with great success. He even printed the cards and adapted the experience section to cover past, present, and future, see the picture below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mario told me: “I used it once again today, for the onboarding of a new collaborator who had just joined the team… I tell you only that after 40 minutes we were already like two best friends! Really powerful this workshop!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me tell you more about the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you don’t know where to start in creating a relationship with people, you can use the help of a structure like what Portia Tung proposed in her book: The Dream Team Nightmare<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used the approach when I was the new person in a company. I was tasked with creating and nurturing an agile culture. Of course, some people were enthusiasts, whereas others were a bit skeptical. I planned one-on-ones with all the team members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To prepare the agenda for the meeting and to make the work visible, I wrote on three mini sticky notes the three headings that give a structure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n