One-to-One & Coaching Toolkit for Engineering Managers
by thechelsuk
£7.99
21 printable pages for the conversations that matter most: the first chat with someone new, the regular one-to-one, coaching someone through a problem, setting objectives and planning a career.
Each section has a short guide you read once and a template you print for every conversation. It's how I run one-to-ones with my own teams, tidied up so you can use it tomorrow.
What's inside
First one-to-one: 12 questions for new starters or an inherited team, including "What makes you grumpy?"
GOOD one-to-ones: Goals, Obstacles, Opportunities, Decisions. A guide and a template to print for every meeting.
Coaching with GROW: ask, don't tell. A guide with questions for each stage, and a worksheet with a commitment scale.
Objectives and evidence: a quarterly planner, and an evidence sheet that works like a school science experiment: hypothesis, method, conclusion, evaluation.
Confident vs competent: when to direct, coach, retrain or let go, plus a team map.
Career conversations: a guide and a template that ends in a 90-day plan.
Question bank: 59 one-to-one, wellbeing, coaching and performance questions from the EngMan app, each with a note on why to ask it.
Who it's for
New and experienced engineering managers, team leads and tech leads. It works for any team: nothing in it is specific to software.
Licence
Print and copy the pages for yourself and the people you manage, as often as you like. Please don't resell or share the file.
Pairs with The Perfect Hiring System.
PDF, 21 pages, in both A4 and US Letter.