There are some conversations I think are better exchanged more thoughtfully and that takes time. Schedule of people with many direct reports is just overwhelming and it's too easy to naturally avoid certain discussions unless they are deliberately scheduled. IMO 1-1 is "at least" meeting than "at most" meeting.
then just schedule a meeting, in one year i had like 3 times i had something to say that was employment related and other 50 1-1s were waste of my time
exactly, places hard on these kinds of things are just red flags indicating that here we value obedience over creativity, being process driven to cover myself than being pragmatic and do what is sensible.
I see your point and I get you, but power structure in orgs where the more process is at discretion, the org is systemically skewed against the weaker person. Ex: Professor-PhD student dynamics at Universities. 50% of university students are estimated to be having mental-health problems, PhD graduates consistently report their PhD years were the worst of their lives and I think its hard to disagree skewed power structures have something to do with it at least to some people.
