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Direct Report Guide: Completing Productivity 1-on-1 Check-Ins

Last updated on Feb 24, 2026

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1. Selecting Your Productivity Rating in 1-on-1s

Open the 1-on-1 meeting with your manager and look at the top-right corner of the screen, where you will find a section labeled “Your Name Check-in.” Under this section, you will see the prompt “Since your last check-in, my productivity was” along with five emojis, each representing a different level of productivity

Selecting Your Productivity Rating in 1-on-1s

2. What Each Productivity Emoji Represents

Here’s your text broken down into a clear, line-by-line format for your help document:

Hover over each emoji to see which legend it represents. Each emoji represents the following:

  • Much less productive than normal

  • Somewhat less productive than normal

  • As productive as I normally am

  • Somewhat more productive than normal

  • Much more productive than normal

What Each Productivity Emoji Represents

3. Providing a Reason for Your Productivity Rating

After selecting an emoji for your productivity check-in, you will need to specify the reason for choosing that emoji. For example, if you select the emoji that says, “Much more productive than normal,” you must enter a reason explaining why you chose this rating for your productivity check-in

Providing a Reason for Your Productivity Rating

4. Providing Feedback on Productivity Check-ins

You will also see four topics to provide feedback on: Clarity, Skills, Focus, and Team Dynamics. You can select any topics by clicking on any topic, that you feel are relevant to your productivity check-in. After selecting a topic, you must provide a reason for your choice

Providing Feedback on Productivity Check-ins

5. Provide a Reason for Selected Feedback Topic

In this case, we have selected Focus and provided the reason for why we chose this topic

Provide a Reason for Selected Feedback Topic

6. Submit Your Productivity Check-in

After providing your productivity check-in, click the Submit button to finalize and send your feedback to your manager

Submit Your Productivity Check-in

7. Checking the Status of Your Productivity Check-in

Under the Productivity Check-in section, the status will show as Submitted after clicking the Submit button

Checking the Status of Your Productivity Check-in

8. View Your Productivity Check-in After Submission

After submitting your productivity feedback, you can view the productivity check-in you have provided under the Productivity Check-in section

View Your Productivity Check-in After Submission