Your best employees are having "quiet quitting" thoughts during those awkward 15-minute check-ins where you both pretend everything's fine. Meanwhile, your retention rates are telling a different story.
It's time to turn those painful status update meetings into the secret weapon your competitors wish they had. In this game-changing webcast, you'll discover how savvy leaders are using strategic 1:1s to keep their top talent engaged, motivated, and—most importantly—staying put.
Key Takeaways:
Master the Art of Actually Connecting
- Ditch the small talk and dive into conversations that matter
- Read the room (especially post-layoff) without being weird about it
- Turn awkward silences into breakthrough moments
Create Meetings People Actually Want to Attend
- Move beyond "How's that project going?" to uncover what really drives each person
- Spot the early warning signs before your star performer starts updating their LinkedIn
- Use simple questions that unlock surprisingly honest answers
Turn Insights Into Action
- Build retention strategies that don't require a PhD in psychology
- Follow up on conversations in ways that show you were actually listening
- Create workplace changes that make people think, "Finally, someone gets it"
What You'll Gain: The exact framework that transforms dreaded check-ins into retention goldmines. Real examples of managers who turned their 1:1 game around and saw immediate results. Ready-to-use conversation starters and follow-up templates that actually work.
Perfect for HR leaders, managers, and anyone tired of watching good people walk out the door because their boss "didn't have time to really talk."
Meet the Presenter
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Leila Bulling Towne
Leila Bulling Towne is the creator of AwesomeLeader.com and founder of The Bulling Towne Group. She’s been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, NBC.com, Inc magazine and the BBC.com. She’s also the host of the podcast, “The Leadership Shot.” Her clients range from startup executives to super smart technical people managing teams for the first-time leaders with EQ challenges to newly promoted directors with a new span of control, to seasoned execs at Fortune 500 companies. Her sweet spots include emotional intelligence, teamwork and collaboration, executive presence, leadership brand, self-esteem as a high achiever, teamwork dysfunction and 1:1 “training” in leadership and management skills. She has over 270,000 online students.
SHRM certification has approved this webinar for 1 PDC toward SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP recertification. A program code will be provided at the end of the webinar.