People Engagement: Learnings from my history at Cisco and Meta (formerly Facebook)

Learnings from my experience on how to create high people engagement for team success

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During my stint at Cisco Systems, there was a foundational change in Human Resource practices — the advent of a ‘weekly check-in’. This was positioned as the most important ritual for every manager and leader in the org, and was run in pilot mode for over 9 months (i.e non-mandated).

The Premise

Frequent Check-Ins turn talent into extraordinary performance.

Source: Cisco check-in

Research backing this statement had indicated that frequent structured (sync and async) exchanges between managers and reportees had significantly better results over the longer term (2x-6x). It additionally resulted in reduced deviations from goal, reduced dissatisfaction in performance reviews (largely due to minimizing prioritization mismatches) and more importantly, to let every single…