Overview
The Check-in meeting type in Pando combines your standard 1:1 agenda — topics, priorities, and action items — with career development elements like goals, feedback, and recent wins. It's designed to make your regular check-ins more focused without adding a separate meeting for career conversations.
Creating a Check-in
Step 1: Start a New Meeting
Navigate to "Meetings" in the left nav and click "Create Meeting." Select the Check-in (1:1) meeting type, choose your participant, and click "Create."
What's Inside a Check-in
Once created, the check-in has several sections. Here's what each one does.
Pulse Survey
At the top, there's a quick pulse survey where the report can share how they're feeling about their well-being and productivity. Whatever the report selects here is visible to their manager. This gives managers a quick read on how things are going before the conversation starts.
Topics
This is your shared agenda. Both the manager and report can add discussion items — anything from project status updates to questions or concerns. Add whatever you need to cover in the meeting.
Priorities
Separate from topics, priorities capture what the report needs to get done this week. Think of it as: topics are what you want to talk about, priorities are what you need to do.
Goals
This section pulls in the report's goals from Pando, showing their current status — whether they're on track, on watch, not started, blocked, or achieved. Either the report or their manager can comment on blockers or progress directly from the meeting view.
Feedback
Shows recent feedback requests relevant to the meeting. For the report, these are requests from their manager that need a response. For the manager, these are requests the report has sent that need a response.
Recent Wins
An opportunity for the report to highlight accomplishments from the past few weeks. This gives the manager visibility into work that might otherwise go unnoticed and creates a natural moment to recognize contributions.
Action Items
Action items from the previous meeting carry forward automatically — both completed and outstanding items are visible for reference. You can add new action items and assign them to either participant. Items save automatically when you close the meeting.
Tracking Action Items
To see all your outstanding action items across meetings, go to "Stats and Action Items." From there you can:
View all incomplete action items in one place.
Click into the specific meeting where an action item was set to get context on what was discussed.
Mark items as complete when they're done.
Why It Works
By putting tactical items (topics, priorities, action items) next to career development items (goals, feedback, recent wins) in the same meeting, check-ins naturally become more well-rounded. Career conversations don't get pushed to "some other time" — they happen as part of your regular rhythm.
For questions, contact support@pando.com or use the in-app chat.