Show HN: Making 1on1 conversations easier at work

In an office setting how do we encourage this? Through conversations. It’s important to have continuous conversations between leaders and contributors, solicit feedback and give recognition. This drives alignment, productivity, trust and ultimately helps achieve business goals.

It seems simple but it rarely are conversations effective. We have focussed on conversations between leaders and contributors in the work environment. Pain points include: Assuming other people have the same information as you Leaders and contributors are busy and so don’t prepare for conversations making them suboptimal Leaders and contributors don’t know what subjects to talk about or what they have already covered recently

There is much that could be written and already has been written on the subject. Instead we wanted to play around with some code and build a MVP as a solution to some of the questions below:

How might we make these conversations easier? How might we improve the productivity of conversations? How might we track or monitor the effectiveness of these conversations?

There is much more that could be done but wanted to get some early feedback on it to figure which direction people think it would be useful to go in.

The current product is a text-based program which guides leaders/managers through their 1on1 conversations with their contributors and allows them to easily reference past conversations and categorise new ones into the key conversation types.

Github repo (run locally in docker container) at https://github.com/olwflynn/okrconversation

Future ideas: * Conversation scoring * Enable “to do” list as input * Nicer UI * Others welcome!