How do I gracefully get out of coworkers putting unnecessarily recurring 1:1 meetings on my calendar? I’ve had two of them added recently, with new team members— so I don’t wanna be rude or seem self-important. But I can’t bear more weekly or even biweekly meetings to touch base, on top of many daily status meetings across multiple accounts. I gotta get work done.

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If your teammates need a meeting with you, you support them. That’s part of being a director.

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New team members are the ones who especially need 1:1s

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Depends if they're your direct reports and their seniority.

You said they're new, so why not do it weekly then esse into bi-weekly?

Especially if you're their manager, don't you want to help them succeed?

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I even moved some of mine to monthly after awhile. A reminder you can always grab each other for a question in between 1:1s helped me create some space too

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I wouldn’t suggest getting out of it. If they’re new team members or juniors then it’s part of your responsibility as a manager and/or director. They need you to show up. So do that.

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In my opinion, they can be managed as a group to make best use of your time and you can setup 1:1s as needed. They probably don’t want the 1:1s either someone told them to set them up.

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Omg so refreshing to hear this. What is everyone’s obsession with 1:1s? They are so annoying and pointless but this industry is in love with them. Join a new team and you got 50 1:1 invites outta nowhere. So much unnecessary small talk and chats about “I don’t know, let’s ask next status meeting”

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@VP: even AD needs career development and the items they’d bring to you for escalation are different from a junior. Telling someone to “grow up” because they want career insight or support from a manager is appalling.

Genuinely pity anyone who reports to you if you consider a 1:1 childish. You should be ashamed of that perspective at the VP level. One of the major problems in this industry is leaders who have no compassion.

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It definitely sucks, but at your level, it's more about managing upward relationships and building office politic skills. So that's an upside to the 1:1s. If you really want to get out of it just say you don't always have things to update them with and want to switch to biweekly or as needed

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the requests I’m referring to are people at my level or above. No one reports to me. Also I’m the one creating the work (vs. delegating) so need the time to do it.

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If you’re creating work vs delegating and nobody reports to you, why is director part of your title? Damn agency inflated titles.

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Since they're new, offer to set them up for a limited time (2 weeks maybe) and then frame it like "we can end these after you have a good handle on things."

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It’s simple, if you have time to take them then accept. If you don’t then decline. Work project comes first. If you’re truly a Director, no one should expect you to have that much free time.

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I’m so over meetings. I like them when collaboration is needed. But too many people aren’t willing to use asynchronous comms like Slack for updates so I try my best to instill it. I literally didn’t start any actual work until 2:30 PM today and it can’t continue.

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