 Would you like to improve and level up your one-on-one meetings with your team members? My name is Jeff Perry, the founder of More Than Engineering, leadership and career coach for engineers. And when I first started as a manager in an engineering firm, I began my one-on-one meetings by just starting to talk about the things that I felt like my team members needed to improve. Many, many managers make this mistake, but I learned something a little bit into my leadership career that helped me understand and shift how I did these meetings. I learned and really came to believe that my job as a manager and as a leader is to help grow and develop my team. And that's really my duty and my responsibility. And so I shifted my one-on-one meetings in order to facilitate that. So I'd like to give you just a few tips. Number one, start with leading out with vulnerability on what you feel like you as a leader, as a manager, can do differently. If you start and share one or two things that you feel like you can do to help them better, you're opening up that transparency and that vulnerability and that environment where they feel like they can share the truth with you. Number two, share with them a few things and ask for their input for what you feel like you can do differently. This will give you an opportunity to get feedback from them. And because you've led with that vulnerability and then open that up to ask them, then they are going to be more willing to tell you their true feelings rather than hiding it because you are their manager or leader. Then number three, ask them what they feel like they can do to improve as a team member. And then they'll be more open to because you've led and set the example as the leader, they'll be much more willing to share things that they feel like they can improve and be much more willing to do that. So start with transparency, what you can improve, ask for feedback and then ask them what they feel like they can do to improve. And your one-on-one meetings will become much more effective. Thanks for watching. I'm Jeff Perry from More Than Engineering.