The Missed Meeting

Name: The Missed Meeting
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ISBN: 9798902436232

What One Conversation Reveals About Everything Else

Pete Ketchum

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English

Publishdrive
23 March 2026

Management & management techniques; Management: leadership & motivation; Personnel & human resources management; Organisational theory & behaviour; Advice on careers & achieving success

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Most one-on-one meetings are a waste of time. Yours might be telling you something worse.

When a direct report gives you one-word answers, shows up unprepared, or seems checked out, that's not an attitude problem. That's a signal. And most managers miss it entirely.

The Missed Meeting reveals what your one-on-ones are really communicating about your team's engagement, trust, and performance-and delivers a science-backed framework to fix it.

Drawing on four decades of research in Self-Determination Theory by Deci & Ryan, the same framework cited by Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, organizational psychologist Pete Ketchum gives you:

- The real reason your best people eventually go quiet (and the 5-minute diagnostic to catch it early)

- The Sustain-Improve Framework for transforming status updates into conversations that drive performance

- The single question that changes the dynamic in any 1:1-immediately

- The ARC Self-Assessment to identify exactly where your leadership is creating friction

Ketchum didn't learn this in a classroom. Before becoming an organizational psychologist, he was an Army-trained interrogator, a state corrections officer, and a state trooper-environments where reading people wasn't optional. He brings that same precision to a meeting most leaders slepwalk through.

If your one-on-ones feel like calendar obligations, this book will show you what you're missing and what it's costing you.

By: Pete Ketchum
Imprint: Publishdrive
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 154g
ISBN: 9798902436232
Pages: 108
Publication Date: 23 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active