Turn the weekly 1:1 from a status check into your highest-leverage hour, and run performance conversations that change behaviour fairly — with the evidence, structure, and follow-through that make the change stick.
The fourth course on the Leadership Development Track, building directly on Coaching with GROW: where coaching taught you to ask instead of tell, this teaches you the recurring rhythm and the high-stakes moments where that judgment gets used. You'll rebuild the 1:1 around the report's agenda, learn to surface the truth a quiet, competent person won't volunteer, and de-risk the performance conversation — the PIP, the rating no one wants to hear, the slip you've been circling for weeks — so it lands as fair and forward-looking rather than as a verdict. You leave with a real 1:1 operating rhythm, a written performance conversation script, and a calibration self-check you can run before your next review cycle.
Hook into the 1:1 that looks fine and tells you nothing, and the performance slip a manager keeps circling — then surface your own habits before we teach anything.
Teach the models that carry both halves of the job: the report's-agenda 1:1 and the question that surfaces the unsaid, and the evidence-based, forward-looking performance conversation.
Apply both skills under pressure — the flat-affect quiet report, the defensive PIP opener, sequencing a fair performance conversation, and the review-rating reveal — with feedback at every decision point.
Prove it. Gate the core judgment, write the performance conversation you actually owe someone, and walk out with a 1:1 operating rhythm and calibration self-check you commit to.
Book a demo and we'll run "Running Effective 1:1s & Performance Conversations" end to end on your people — the AI asks, your people think — or point the Forge at your own material instead (a pre-pilot capability preview).