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1:1s are most effective when both the manager and employee come prepared. Without preparation, meetings often turn into surface-level recaps of recent work instead of meaningful conversations about priorities, challenges, and growth. Windmill does that prep work for you. Agendas are clear before the meeting starts, and Windy pulls in relevant context from Continuous Feedback, Pulses, Performance Reviews, and your connected tools. Both participants walk in informed, so the time you have together is spent on the conversation that matters.

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How 1:1s work in Windmill

Windmill automatically finds all of your upcoming 1:1s from your calendar. In order for this to work, you’ll need to connect either Google Workspace or Outlook Calendar to your account. You can also create ad-hoc 1:1s without a calendar event. This is useful for impromptu conversations or when you want to track a 1:1 that isn’t on your calendar.
A 1:1 in Windmill showing the shared agenda, the Suggested Topics panel, and the Catch Me Up panel with citations

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Shared Agenda

Each 1:1 has a shared agenda, visible to both the manager and the employee. You can add discussion topics, work through them live, and capture action items — whether that’s a formal agenda, a template-driven structure, or free-form content for the meeting. Anything in the shared agenda is visible to both participants. For things you want to keep to yourself — observations, coaching thoughts, or reminders — use Private Notes instead. After the meeting, you can always go back and edit or append agenda items, ask Windy for a summary, or revisit the history of past agendas. If the meeting was recorded on a connected platform, the transcript will attach automatically — see Recordings for details.

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Catch Me Up

As a manager, when you’re in a 1:1 with a direct or indirect report, you’ll see a “Catch Me Up” panel with the relevant details about that team member. Catch Me Up pulls from your connected systems — GitHub, Slack, and others — alongside Continuous Feedback, Pulses, Performance Reviews, and any relevant Windy interactions, with citations showing where each item came from. Catch Me Up is only visible to managers, and is not available for cross-functional 1:1s. Catch Me Up reports generate automatically every Sunday and regenerate whenever Windy reaches out before a 1:1. You can also regenerate Catch Me Up on demand at any time from the panel.

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Explore 1:1s

  • Calendar — How Windmill identifies 1:1s from your calendar, and how to create or remove them manually
  • Templates — Give your 1:1s a consistent structure with company and personal templates
  • Recordings — How meeting recordings attach to your 1:1s in Windmill
  • Notifications — Control when and how Windy reaches out before your 1:1s
  • Importing History — Bring existing 1:1 history from Notion, Google Docs, or other tools
  • Stats — Track 1:1 patterns across your organization
  • Prep (Deprecated) — Legacy Slack-based prep system, being replaced by Templates