I couldn’t agree more. Building that “radical candor” is the most important element to have any meaningful conversation or even relationships. I’ve personally found One on ones as a great platform to build such relationships and like coaching active listening and powerful questioning can help. What have you found working in building strong relationships?

Thanks. Let me use a quote from Managers-Tool podcast to explain our rationale about 1-on-1s.

1-on-1, the most powerful thing we can recommend to any managers in the world - To Sit down and talk to their folks on weekly basis regularly like clockwork because just chatting with your folks periodically is not a way to get to know them - It doesn’t work. And the single most important thing you can do to improve your relationship, and therefore your results with your team is to get to know the strengths and weaknesses of everybody who works for you as individuals rather than as a group.

We use our own tool (https://peoplebox.ai) and many of these questions are embedded in it but you can use these questions with any tool you like or currently using.

Thanks for your kind comment and the feedback. That’s a great idea. When we created the categories, the idea was to bucket these questions based on certain type of information only like collecting feedback or understanding work relationships but I agree these can be more crisp and specific.