Regular one-on-one meetings help managers spot problems early, discuss progress, and support employees before review season. Calamari brings goals, recent evaluations, and follow-up tasks into every conversation.
Discuss workload, obstacles, and progress regularly. Managers can offer support while there's still time to change course.
Use regular check-ins to discuss priorities, clarify responsibilities, and agree on what needs to happen next.
Keep a record of previous discussions and commitments. When it's time for a formal review, managers and employees can look back on what they've discussed throughout the year.
How it works
Schedule recurring 1:1s with your direct reports. Choose the frequency, add a meeting link, and let Calamari notify participants about upcoming check-ins.
Managers and employees can add topics before the meeting and edit the agenda together in real time. Both arrive knowing what needs to be discussed.
Create action items during the meeting and mark them complete as work gets done. Topics you didn't cover are automatically added to the next meeting.
What's changed since your last meeting? Which goals need attention? Has the employee received new feedback?
Calamari brings goals and recent performance evaluations into your 1:1 meetings. Check progress, discuss what's working and where support is needed, and give employees time to act on feedback before their next review.
What did you agree on last month? Was that task completed? Which topics still need attention?
Calamari keeps a history of previous meetings, agendas, and action items. Managers can check what's been discussed, revisit commitments, and see which tasks are still open.
Unfinished agenda items automatically carry over to the next meeting. You can continue the discussion without relying on memory or scattered notes.
Not everything discussed in a 1:1 needs to be shared beyond the meeting.
Managers and employees can prepare private agenda items and write personal notes that only they can see. Shared topics remain available to both participants, so they can work through the agenda together.
HR doesn't have access to the content of these conversations.
HR teams can encourage managers to hold regular 1:1s. Calamari helps them see whether that's happening.
Set an expected meeting frequency and review completed and unconfirmed meetings across teams. You can also check which recurring meeting cycles managers have scheduled. If a team is falling behind, HR has the information needed to follow up with the manager.
Meeting content stays private. HR can see meeting frequency and completion status, but not what employees and managers discussed.
Performance Review
Calamari handles the whole cycle for you — invitations, reminders, and collecting responses. You design the questionnaire and review model, the system keeps everyone on track and pulls results into clear reports. One login, one place for the entire process.
Answers to common questions about running 1:1 meetings in Calamari.
Plan 1:1s, discuss progress, and keep track of what's been agreed. All within Calamari Performance.
