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Keep Your Best People|Mike Pritula

Keep Your Best People : The 1-on-1 System That Builds Trust and Stops Turnover

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Overview

I've sat in 1-on-1 meetings across banks, a media group, and a fast-scaling tech company for two decades. Samescript every time.

The manager opens a laptop. "So, how's the project going?" The report walks through a status list. The manager nods, assigns three action items, and renews the calendar invite. Thirty minutes, done - and nothing real was said. Six weekslater the report who "had no issues" hands in notice, and the manager swears they never saw it coming.

They never saw it because the meeting had no room for it. Growth, trust, fatigue, the recruiter sitting in someone's inbox -none of that fits inside a status update, so it stays unsaid until it walks out the door. The meeting isn't broken on purpose.Managers just default to the only meeting they were ever shown.

What works:

  • The Six 1-on-1 Types - give each meeting one job instead of five.
  • The GROW Conversation - coach in 30 minutes so people find their own answer.
  • The SBR Feedback Formula - say the hard thing so it changes behavior, not the mood.
  • The Stay Conversation - catch a flight risk before the offer letter arrives.

What doesn't:

  • Cancelling the meeting whenever the week gets busy.
  • Doing 80 percent of the talking.
  • Treating the agenda as a status report.

The system in this book is what I've watched keep teams together. 57 templates inside - scripts, agendas, question banks, checklists - every one on the page, no downloads.

Steven Rogelberg's Glad We Met runs about $28. An executive coach runs $500 an hour. This book costs less than lunch.

Run the meeting most managers skip. Keep the people you'd hate to replace.

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798191704784
  • ISBN-10: 9798191704784
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: August 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.61 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
  • Page Count: 270

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