Diamond Tree catalog
Growing Your People
For the manager who wants the people who report to them to grow. The pieces that go back and forth between you and each report across a year: their prep before a one-on-one, a development plan you both keep, a career conversation they come ready for. They write first, and you read before you meet.
Start here
The year with each person on one page: what you send each week, quarter and year, what comes back before you meet, who can read it, and why development and the review never share a meeting.
The year with each person
The same year with each report, sorted by how often each piece comes round. Each folder holds what you send the report first, then what you run with them. Add it all for a new report, or one folder at a time.
When you start working together
The first two weeks, whether they joined your team or you took over theirs: how each of you works, and a first one-on-one that starts from what they wrote.
Every week
The one-on-one: their agenda before it, and three lines a month you would be content for them to read.
Every quarter
One development plan, set once and checked each quarter: their prep, the plan they write in the room, the meeting that sets it, and the look back.
Once a year
The career conversation, then the review, kept apart: their prep and your run card for each.
Feedback both ways
What they took from your feedback, in their words the same day, and what they think of you as a manager, twice a year.
When it gets harder
Reference for the manager, reached for one at a time: a plan that has stopped moving, and what to do when someone tells you something you cannot keep.