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Get Started Free →Prepare for a 1:1 so it drives outcomes instead of becoming a status update. Use when asked to prep for a one-on-one, build a 1:1 agenda, prepare to talk to your manager (or a report), or raise something hard in a 1:1. Produces a focused 1:1 agenda — your top topics with the outcome you want for each, the asks, updates kept brief, and growth/feedback threads, tuned to direction (with your manager vs. with a report).
.claude/skills/mohitagw15856-one-on-one-prep/SKILL.md| Test case | Without → With | Effect | Δ tokens | Δ turns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| case-01 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -11% | 0% |
| case-02 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 1% | 0% |
| case-03 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -5% | 0% |
| case-04 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 2% | 0% |
| case-05 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 36% | 0% |
The 1:1 is the highest-leverage meeting you have — and it's wasted when it defaults to status (which belongs in writing). This skill preps an agenda built around the outcomes you want: the decisions to unblock, the asks to make, the feedback to exchange, and the career threads to keep warm — so 30 minutes moves things instead of just reporting them.
Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:
1. Top topics (most important first) — for each: the topic, the outcome you want, and the framing. Lead with what needs a decision or unblock, not updates.
| Topic | Outcome I want | How I'll frame it | |---|---|---|
2. Asks — explicit requests (a decision, air cover, a connection, time). Naming the ask is the point of the meeting.
3. Status — kept brief — 2–3 bullets of what they genuinely need to know; link the rest. Don't let this eat the meeting.
4. Feedback (both ways) — feedback to give (specific, kind, actionable) and a prompt to ask for feedback on yourself.
5. Growth / career — the longer-game thread to keep warm (a stretch goal, a development area, a promotion track).
6. Follow-ups — from last time, and what you'll commit to from this one.
Direction note: managing up → lead with decisions you need and asks; surface risks early; make it easy to help you. Managing down → lead with their agenda and growth, listen more than you talk, end with clear next steps.
1:1 management practice (Andy Grove, High Output Management; manager-tools 1:1 cadence) — outcome-led agendas, managing up and down.
| Case | Status | Duration (ms) | Turns | Tokens | Tool calls | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | ||
case-01 | fail→pass | 16,792 | 10,531 | -37% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,834 | 2,528 | -11% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-02 | fail→pass | 14,148 | 9,627 | -32% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,531 | 2,563 | +1% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-03 | fail→pass | 14,195 | 9,215 | -35% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,541 | 2,403 | -5% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-04 | fail→pass | 13,800 | 9,464 | -31% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,432 | 2,490 | +2% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-05 | fail→pass | 8,539 | 7,535 | -12% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,620 | 2,207 | +36% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-06 | fail→pass | 11,397 | 8,999 | -21% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,998 | 2,377 | +19% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-07 | pass→pass | 12,087 | 9,440 | -22% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,006 | 2,439 | +22% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-08 | pass→pass | 10,382 | 7,730 | -26% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,837 | 2,178 | +19% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-09 | fail→pass | 12,041 | 12,517 | +4% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,101 | 2,974 | +42% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-10 | pass→pass | 15,205 | 9,154 | -40% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,570 | 2,380 | -7% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-11 | pass→pass | 14,354 | 12,674 | -12% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,434 | 2,744 | +13% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-12 | pass→pass | 14,401 | 11,810 | -18% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,288 | 2,713 | +19% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-13 | pass→pass | 13,581 | 7,820 | -42% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,454 | 2,154 | -12% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-14 | pass→pass | 10,220 | 9,149 | -10% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,840 | 2,424 | +32% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-15 | pass→pass | 8,316 | 7,112 | -14% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,635 | 2,073 | +27% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-16 | fail→fail | 13,901 | 8,555 | -38% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,405 | 2,277 | -5% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-17 | pass→pass | 11,449 | 9,885 | -14% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,282 | 2,624 | +15% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-18 | pass→pass | 14,392 | 9,444 | -34% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,996 | 2,460 | +23% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-19 | pass→pass | 16,292 | 10,864 | -33% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,670 | 2,449 | -8% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-20 | pass→pass | 15,248 | 12,366 | -19% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,531 | 2,857 | +13% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-21 | pass→pass | 13,035 | 12,642 | -3% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,222 | 2,925 | +32% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-22 | pass→fail | 14,563 | 18,040 | +24% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,730 | 3,770 | +38% | 0 | 0 | — |
DecimalAI ran this skill against gemini-3.6-flash twice over the same eval suite — once with the skill loaded and once without — and compared the two runs case by case. 22 cases were attempted. The headline lift of +27 percentage points is the difference between those two pass rates over the 22 comparable cases. 1 case got worse with the skill loaded, and it is included in that figure.
Without the skill loaded, the model failed this case. With it loaded, the same prompt on the same model passed. This is one improved case from the latest verified run; every case, including any that regressed, is in the table above.
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