Meetings overview

A Meeting is a session where two people sit down to talk through how things are going and coach the skills that matter: working through questions, discussing a completed piece of work, or reflecting on recent situations. Meetings are how skill levels get measured in Admire: they turn day-to-day work into tracked, observable progress.

Meetings aren’t only for formal coaching or observation sessions. A regular 1-1 is a Meeting too: use the same workspace to catch up, take notes, and, when it’s natural, record a few observations. Reach for a Meeting whatever the cadence, from a structured skill assessment to a weekly check-in.

Whatever shape the session takes, it flows through the same Meeting and builds the same record:

flowchart LR
  OneOnOne["1-1s"] --> Meeting(("Meeting"))
  Coaching["Coaching sessions"] --> Meeting
  Feedback["Feedback requests"] --> Meeting
  Review["Performance reviews"] --> Meeting

  Meeting --> Notes["Meeting notes"]
  Meeting --> Observations["Skill feedback & progress"]
  Meeting --> Signed["Signed-off record"]

What a Meeting brings together

• An observer (the coach or expert) and an observee (the person being developed).
• The skills to coach or discuss in the session.
• Notes captured before, during, and after.
• Observations: the scores recorded for the skills that were assessed.

Assess only what there's time for

Not every skill has to be assessed in a Meeting. Record observations only for what actually came up. Skills that aren’t assessed are simply left untouched: there’s no penalty or negative impact on a skill that wasn’t observed. See Scoring skills.

Types of Meetings

The same workspace adapts to whatever shape the conversation takes. Some common types:

• 1-1s: a recurring check-in between a manager and a report. Keep the agenda in the Meeting, work through the notes captured since last time, and record observations when they come up naturally.
• Coaching (coach-led): the coach plans the session, picks the skills to work on, and guides the coachee through questions, exercises, or a review of recent work.
• Feedback request (coachee-led): the coachee asks for the session, choosing who they want feedback from and which skills to focus on. See coachee-managed meetings.
• Asynchronous coaching: when there’s a work product to assess (a document, a recording, a deliverable), the coach can review and score it on their own time, with no live session needed. This works best in high-trust or well-structured cultures, where asynchronous feedback is read as support rather than criticism.
• Performance reviews: a session focused on summarizing progress over a period. Admire’s signature capabilities let both people sign off on the record.

The flow of a session

Plan a Meeting Choose the people, the skills to focus on, and an optional agenda.

Run a Meeting Coach, score, capture notes, and sign off.

Quick meetings Start a well-prepared meeting from the dashboard in one click.